Darwin Awards

I have the biggest fear that one of these days I just might make it on the list. Here's a link if you can't get enough of the stupity of people. www.darwinawards.com

Here's the winners this year.

  1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire
at his intended victim
during a hold-up in Long Beach, California,
would-be robber James Elliot
did something that can only inspire wonder.  He
peered down the barrel
and tried the trigger again.  This time it
worked.....



  2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a
finger in a meat-cutting
machine and, after a little hopping around,
submitted a claim to his
insurance company.  The company expecting
negligence sent out one of its
men to have a look for himself.  He tried the
machine and lost a finger.
The chef's claim was approved.



  3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear
a space for his car
during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his
vehicle to find a woman
had taken the space.  Understandably, he shot
her.



  4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar,
a Zimbabwean bus
driver found that the 20 mental patients he was
supposed to be
transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped.
  Not wanting to admit
his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus
stop and offered
everyone waiting there a free ride. He then
delivered the passengers to
the mental hospital, telling the staff that the
patients were very
excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.  The
deception wasn't
discovered for 3 days.



  5. An American teenager was in the hospital
recovering from serious
head wounds received from an oncoming train.
  When asked how he received
the injuries, the lad told police that he was
simply trying to see how
close he could get his head to a moving train
before he was hit.



  6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put
a $20 bill on the
counter, and asked for change.  When the clerk
opened the cash drawer,
the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash
in the register, which
the clerk promptly provided.  The man took the
cash from the clerk and
fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter.  The
total amount of cash he
got from the drawer...$15.  (If someone points a
gun at you and gives
you money, is a crime committed?)



  7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer
pretty badly.  He decided
that he'd just throw a cinder block through a
liquor store window, grab
some booze, and run.  So he lifted the cinder
block and heaved it over
his head at the window.  The cinder block bounced
back and hit the
would-be thief on the head, knocking him
unconscious.  The liquor store
window was made of Plexiglas.  The whole event
was caught on videotape.



  8. As a female shopper exited a New York
convenience store, a man
grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911
immediately, and the
woman was able to give them a detailed
description of the snatcher.
Within minutes, the police apprehended the
snatcher.  They put him in
the car and drove back to the store.  The thief
was then taken out of
the car and told to stand there for a positive
ID.  To which he replied,
"Yes, officer, that's her.  That's the lady I
stole the purse from."



  9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported
that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m.,
flashed a gun, and
demanded cash.  The clerk turned him down because
he said he couldn't
open the cash register without a food order  When
the man ordered onion
rings, the clerk said they weren't available for
breakfast.  The man,
frustrated, walked away.



  A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!



  10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline
from a motor home parked
on a Seattle street, he got much more than he
bargained for.  Police
arrived at the scene to find a very sick man
curled up next to a motor
home near spilled sewage.  A police spokesman
said that the man admitted
to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his
siphon hose into the motor
home's sewage tank by mistake.  The owner of the
vehicle declined to
press charges, saying that it was the best laugh
he'd ever had.