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Jul 14th, 2003 at 12:34pm

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Not to be confused with the Darwin Awards. Here are some examples of the dumbest people in out society.

NOMINEE No.1: [San Jose Mercury News] An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

NOMINEE No.2 [Kalamazoo Gazette] James Burns, 34, of Alamo,Mich., was killed in March as he was trying to repair what. police described as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Bums hung underneath so that he could asthe source of a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."

NOMINEE No.3 [Hickory Daily Record] Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton, N.C., when, awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson. 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.

NOMINEE No.4 [UIPI, Toronto] Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto Skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawyers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association.

NOMINEE No.5 [Bloomburg News Service] A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his own gas. There was no mark on his body but autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage(and a couple of other things). It was just the right combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut, up in his, near airtight bedroom. According to the article, "He was a big man with a huge capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers got sick and one was hospitalized.

NOMINEE No..6 [The News of the Weird.] Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. Whilst sitting on a metal toilet in his cell and attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

NOMINEE NO.7["The. Indianapolis Star"] A cigarette lighter may have triggered fatal explosion - Dunkirk, Indiana. A Jay County man using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriffs investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home about 11:30 p.m. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzle loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

NOMINEE No.8 lAP, St. Louis] Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it in his mouth, and walked out without paying for it. Police found him unconscious in front of the store; paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat, where it had choked him to death.

NOMINEE No.9 [Unknown] To poacher Marino Malerba, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock-and was killed instantly when it fell on him.

NOMINEE No.10 [Associated Press, Kincaid] Blasting Cap Explodes in Man's Mouth at Party. A man at a party popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and tougue state police said Wednesday. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank during a party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D.Payne. Another man had it in an aquarium hooked to a battery, and was trying to explode it," Payne said. "It wouldn't go off and this guy said, 'I'II show you how to set it off."

 

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Reply #1 - Jul 14th, 2003 at 1:34pm

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3, 4 and 5 I've seen before, but the others gave me a good laugh. Especially 2, 9 and 10 Grin Grin Grin

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Reply #2 - Jul 14th, 2003 at 2:38pm

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Maybe I could add some of the customers that visit the store where I work Undecided
 
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Reply #3 - Jul 14th, 2003 at 4:00pm

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I have read about a year ago that a man shot himself while demonstrating a game known as "russian roulette" not with revolver but with a regular semi automatic gum.
 
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Reply #4 - Jul 14th, 2003 at 4:17pm

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Russ the guy in question was called Jimmy Zambo. He was a Hungarian pop star, and at a New Years Eve party he demonstrated Russian Roulette by ejecting the magazine, but not checking the chamber was clear. He died a few hours later in hospital! It even made CNN.
I personally couldn't stand his Friday evening TV show and songs, but he did have great singing power (7 octaves).

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There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!
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Reply #5 - Jul 14th, 2003 at 5:29pm

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we lost a few geniouses there didn't we  Roll Eyes
 

If someone with multiple personality disorder threatens suicide, is it a hostage situation?

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Reply #6 - Jul 15th, 2003 at 1:41am

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Yo there is only one question i would like to ask all those giniouses

??? ???"WAT THE HELL WERE U THINKING?" ??? ???

lol
 
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Reply #7 - Jul 18th, 2003 at 1:45pm

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I'm sure all of their last words were "Hey, watch this!"
 
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Reply #8 - Jul 18th, 2003 at 5:45pm

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Quote:
I'm sure all of their last words were "Hey, watch this!"


Agree with u on this one!
lol
 
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