Friday, January 30, 2009

DARWIN AWARDS!

Hah!  I just had to post this,  it is pretty funny.  It is the Darwin awards.  Also,  I would like to add another one that did not come in the e-mail I got,  it was something Christian found out from some BYT friends.:

Once there was a man a died because he bungee jumped off a bridge that was 300 feet high off the ground.  His dilemma was that his rope turned out to be 300 feet long.  Quite a costly mistake on his part.


Yes,  it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin  Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among  us. 
  

 Here  is the glorious  winner: 

 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. 

  

 And now, the honorable  mentions:


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.  

 


 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.

 


 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.

 


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.




 


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?]



 


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.



 


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."




 


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]




 


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 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 mankind, please share these  with your 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.   

*** Remember...  They walk among us!!!  ***

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