>
>
> Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when
> the Darwin Awards
>
> are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
>
>
>
> Here then, are the glorious Darwin Award Winners:
>
>
>
> 1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at
> his 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....
>
>
>
> And now, the honorable mentions:
>
>
>
> 1. 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 expecting
> negligence, sent out one
>
> of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the
> machine and lost a
>
> finger. The chef's claim was approved.
>
>
>
> 2. 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.
>
>
>
> 3. 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.
>
>
>
> 4. 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.
>
>
>
> 5. 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?)
>
>
>
> 6. 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> 7. 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."
>
>
>
> 8. 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!
>
>
>
> 1. 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 and 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.
>
>
>
> In the interest of bettering human kind please share
> these with your
>
> friends and family . unless of course one of these
> 10 individuals by
>
> chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In
> that case be glad
>
> they are distant.
>
>
>
>
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