[SOC] Darwin strikes again...

[Gordon 'Yeti']

Even if they were all true, only the first one would qualify. For a 
Darwin Award, you have to become incapable of reproducing (usually by 
dying!).

On 30/12/2010 20:00, Spencer Sholly wrote:
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> Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the
> Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
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> Here is the glorious winner:
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> 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.
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> And now, the honorable mentions:
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> 2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger
> in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping 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 he also
> lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?]
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> 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]
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> 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, but he 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.
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> In the interest of bettering mankind, please share
> these with friends and family....unless of course one of these individuals
> by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case, be glad
> they are distant and hope they remain lost.
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> ***
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> Remember.... They walk among us!!!
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