Darwin Awards on EA!

[hadassahchana[$]]

After reading Pippa's post below about the man who took on the grenade and lost, I think we need our own ongoing Darwin award thread. You know how the Darwin Award is won, so start nominating!

[poseidon]

I have several volumes of the Darwin Award books here at home. The rules according to the books I have are that the nominee MUST have died in his attempt to cleanse the gene pool. So, those that live make for humorous stories, but cannot be nominees.

[poseidon]

So, here ya go:

Darwin Award: Hornet Challenge
Confirmed by Darwin 27 July 2000, Cambodia

A motorcycle taxi driver from Phnom Penh challenged his neighbor to stand beneath a hornet's nest while two men pelted it with stones. The fifty-three year old neighbor should have known better, but he had a local reputation as a "strong man" to uphold. He stood beneath the nest and the pelting commenced.

The man endured the pain of countless stinging hornets before expiring from the toxic injections. Apparently, he was not as strong as he thought.

Reference: Reuters, Rasmei Kampuchea

[hadassahchana[$]]

[poseidon]

Okay, here's another:

Darwin Award: Fireworks Fiasco
Confirmed by Darwin, 4 July 2000, New York

America's Independence Day celebration is a festival for pyromaniacs. People routinely lose fingers and eyes in fireworks explosions, year after year, seemingly oblivious to the dangrs. And, the bigger the fireworks, the greater the damage.
Keith, 34, suffered partial decapitation when he peered into the mouth of a launching tube containing what he thought was a malfunctioning aerial firework.
The unlicensed pyrospectacular display was to be the grand finale of his party, and in his haste to correct the problem he placed his dead directly over the opening. After a short delay the fireworks exploded, giving both his head and his party an impromptu yet spectacular grand finale.

Reference: AP

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