[SOC] Not quite Darwin Awards...

[Lloyd Lachow]

When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at its 
intended victim
> during a holdup 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.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 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, suspecting 
negligence, sent out
> one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried 
the machine out and
> lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
> Damn I like that one...
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> An American teenager was in the hospital yesterday 
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.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> A mother took her daughter to the doctor and asked 
him to give her an
> examination to determine the cause of her daughters 
swollen abdomen.
> It only took the doctor about 2 seconds to say "Your

daughter is pregnant."
> The mother turned red with fury and she argued with 
the doctor
> that her daughter was a good girl and would never 
compromise her reputation
> by having sex with a boy.
> The doctor faced the window and silently watched the

horizon. The mother
> became enraged and screamed, "Quit looking out the 
window! Aren't you
paying
> attention to me?"
> "Yes, of course I am paying attention ma'am. It's 
just that the last time
> this happened, a star appeared in the East, and 
three wise men came. And I
> was hoping that they would show up again.
>


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