[SOC] Definitely On Topic

[Quikhooligan]

2010 Darwin Awards? More like 2002.

See:
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/darwin.html

--- On Thu, 8/19/10, Bob Patten <n4bp at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: Bob Patten <n4bp at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [SOC] Definitely On Topic
> To: "SOC Reflector" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 7:05 AM
> Without further ado here are the
> 2010  Darwin awards.
> 
> 8th Place
> 
> In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two
> feet of 
> water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide
> sewer grate to 
> retrieve his car keys.
> 
> 7th Place
> 
> A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who “totally
> zoned when he 
> ran”, accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on
> his daily run.
> 
> 6th Place
> 
> While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole
> for protection 
> from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the
> bottom, when 
> it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on
> the beach 
> used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but
> could  not reach 
> him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an
> hour to free 
> him. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
> 
> 5th Place
> 
> Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the
> ceiling of a 
> bicycle shop he was robbing. Death was caused when the long
> torch he had 
> placed in his mouth to keep his hands free, rammed into the
> base of his 
> skull as he hit the floor.
> 
> 4th Place
> 
> Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet
> with friends who 
> said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets
> into his mouth 
> and pull the trigger.
> 
> 3rd Place
> 
> After walking around a marked police patrol car parked at
> the front 
> door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms
> intent on robbing the 
> store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed
> officer was 
> standing at the counter.. Upon seeing the officer, the
> would-be robber 
> announced a hold-up and fired a few wild shots from a
> target pistol. The 
> officer and a clerk promptly returned fire and
> several  customers also 
> drew their guns and fired. The robber was pronounced dead
> at the scene 
> by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators  located 47
> expended cartridge 
> cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23
> gunshot wounds. 
> Ballistics identified rounds
> 
> from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt.
> 
> HONOURABLE MENTION
> 
> Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just
> driving around at 
> 2 a.m.So (http://a.m.so/) they lit a stick of dynamite to toss
> out the 
> window to see what would happen. Apparently they failed to
> notice the 
> window was closed
> 
> RUNNER UP
> 
> Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when
> one of them 
> said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a
> local  bridge in 
> the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated
> and at least 10 
> men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 a.m.
> Upon arrival at 
> the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had
> brought a 
> bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking,
> volunteered and 
> pointed out that a coil of lineman’s cable lay nearby.
> They secured one 
> end around Bingham’s leg and then
> 
> tied the other (!) to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet
> before the 
> cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He
> miraculously 
> survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two
> nearby 
> fishermen.  Bingham’s foot was never located.
> 
> AND THE WINNER IS…
> 
> Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn , Germany ) fed
> his 
> constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more
> than a bushel 
> of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm
> finally got 
> relief.  Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46,
> was attempting to 
> give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the
> relieved beast 
> unloaded.
> 
> The sheer force of the elephant’s unexpected defecation
> knocked Mr. 
> Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock
> as the 
> elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of
> him.
> 
> It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that
> proves…. ’shit 
> happens’
> 
> IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPORTANT TO THANK THESE PEOPLE FOR
> REMOVING THEMSELVES 
> FROM THE GENE POOL!
> ________________________
> 
> 
> -- 
> 73,     Bob Patten, N4BP   
>             Plantation, FL
> 
> E-Mail :   n4bp at arrl.net 
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