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the Darwin Awards - 4/29/2008 12:31:41 PM   
Sirandlil1


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And the glorious Winner for 2007 is:
 
1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during ahold-up in Long Beach , California , would-be robber James Elliotdid something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and triedthe trigger again. This time it worked.
 
And now, the Honorable Mentions:
 
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerlandlost a finger in a meat- cutting machine and submitted a claim to his insurancecompany. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have alook for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef'sclaim was approved.
 
3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during ablizzard in Chicagoreturned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, heshot her.
 
4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver foundthat the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayohad escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearbybus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered thepassengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients werevery excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discoveredfor 3 days.
 
5. A Texasteenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received froman oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told policethat he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a movingtrain before he was hit.
 
6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, andasked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gunand 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 thecounter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer: $15.
 
7. Seems an Arkansasguy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted thecinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder blockbounced 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 onvideotape.
 
8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse andran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them adetailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehendedthe snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thiefwas then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. Towhich he replied, 'Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the pursefrom.'
 
9. The Ann Arbor MichiganNews 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 downbecause he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. Whenthe man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available forbreakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.
 
******THE 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER*****
 
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he gotmuch more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a verysick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesmansaid that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphonhose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicledeclined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd had in a verylong time.
 
In the interest of bettering human kind please share these with your friends and family. Unless of course one of the 10 winners by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case be glad they are distant!

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 4/29/2008 1:55:13 PM   
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Hilarious..all of em...

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 4/29/2008 2:55:35 PM   
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Okay, forwarded.  After fixing most of the spacing typo's.

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 4/29/2008 11:47:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Saratov

Okay, forwarded.  After fixing most of the spacing typo's.


um   Saratove typos is plural not possessive nor a contraction so it doesn't need the apostrophe in this context

... with love from a fellow pedant!

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 4/30/2008 4:54:14 PM   
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 Okay, was fixing spacing not punctuation or spelling.

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 4/30/2008 5:21:46 PM   
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True story:My buddy is head of the SWAT team among other things.They busted a drug house, had all the perps cuffed on the floor when there was a knock on the door frame. The door was also on the floor. Some guy was standing there wanting to buy drugs. My buddy pointed to his shirt and asked the guy if he can read the very large letters that spelled out SHERIFF and sent a deputy out to look at the guy's car. At that point the guy said go ahead and search it... I've been trying to tell you, I don't have any drugs, that's why I'm here... to buy drugs.I also love it when my biker buddies tell me the same story my cop buddies tell me about the same incident.I have no clue if I used too many comas and stuff but hope you can read this.

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 4/30/2008 10:50:22 PM   
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Only the first is a true possibility for the Darwin Awards.  He took himself out of the gene pool.  The rest were just being stupid.  There is no cure for stupid.  Too bad being stupid isn't painful.
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RE: the Darwin Awards - 5/1/2008 12:00:56 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: VadFarkas

I have no clue if I used too many comas and stuff but hope you can read this.



yep sure can ...

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 5/1/2008 7:03:35 AM   
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I went to the web site.

OH MY GOD you gotta go.

I am ammazed that not only are they posted THEY ARE USUALLY VERIFIED!!!! Meaning it's not just an Irionic joke some dumbass really did it.

LAMO

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 5/1/2008 7:54:50 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: SteelofUtah

I went to the web site.

OH MY GOD you gotta go.

I am ammazed that not only are they posted THEY ARE USUALLY VERIFIED!!!! Meaning it's not just an Irionic joke some dumbass really did it.

LAMO

Steel



LOL..yes anytime you do something and think boy I must be stupid then go to their site and see really stupid people...it makes you feel better about yourself...

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 5/1/2008 8:00:08 AM   
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The Darwin Awards site is awesome, but the OP is clearly not from DA. Also, most of them are way older than '07.

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 5/4/2008 1:23:34 PM   
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Here is one that was confirmed by the Darwin Awards.

Steel is Gold
2008 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin








(8 March 2008, Czech Republic) Steel is valuable, especially the high grade alloy used in steel cable. Scrap metal dealers do not ask questions. They pay in cash. And a good supply of cables can be found in elevator shafts.
This particular goldmine was a towering shaft inside an empty grainery near Zatec, 40 miles northwest of Prague. The cable was tightly fastened, and the far end of it disappeared into the shadowy distance above.
After substantial wear and tear on a hacksaw, our man finally cut through the strong steel cable. At that instant, the counterbalance, no longer held in check, started to move silently downwards, accelerating until it reached the bottom of the shaft.
Result: one proud winner of a "terminal velocity" Darwin Award.
R.I.P.

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 5/4/2008 2:05:01 PM   
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the darwin awards movie wasn't as funny as I had hoped but I love to get a good chuckle out of the few people dumber than my ex husband... he was arrested on suspicion of identity theft because he mis-spelled his own name when filling out forms at the DMV.... they thought a person must know how to spell their own name right? so why didn't it match his ID- the one he had handed them moments before? I was too embarassed to go down to the jail and explain that my husband really WAS that stupid and let his mom do it-- oh if only I had set out his name undies for him.... 

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 5/4/2008 2:54:18 PM   
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http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/darwin05.asp

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RE: the Darwin Awards - 5/4/2008 6:25:30 PM   
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