2010 Darwin Awards
Submitted by MOTV8
It's my favorite time of year.... here they are, the 2010 Darwin awards, enjoy.
In honor of those that have removed themselves from the gene pool.
2010 Darwin awards
AND THE WINNERS ARE...
8th Place
In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an
18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
7th Place
A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran", accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high
cliff on his daily run.
6th Place
While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a
beach chair at the bottom, when it
collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him
out but could not reach him. It
took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
5th Place
Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was robbing. Death was
caused when the long torch he had placed in his mouth to keep his hands free, rammed into the base of his skull as
he hit the floor.
4th Place
Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded
with four bullets into his mouth
and pull the trigger.
3rd Place
After walking around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather &
Firearms intent on robbing the store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the
counter.. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up and fired a few wild shots from a target
pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire and several customers also drew their guns and fired. The
robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge
cases in the shop. The
subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else
was hurt.
HONOURABLE MENTION
Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 a.m. So they lit a stick of dynamite to
toss out the window to see what
would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed
RUNNER UP
Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had
bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men
trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 a.m. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered
that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil
of lineman's cable lay nearby. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other (!) to the bridge.
His fall lasted 40 feet
before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy
water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never located.
AND THE WINNER IS...
Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and
more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief. Investigators
say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast
unloaded. The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he
struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him. It seems to be
just one of those freak accidents that proves.... 'shit happens'
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