They are finally out again. You all know about the Darwin
Awards - It's an Annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool
the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily
stupid way

Last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a
Coke machine which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip a
free soda out of it.

And the nominees are:

1.) A young Canadian man, searching for a way of getting
drunk cheaply, because he had no money with which to buy alcohol, mixed
gasoline with milk. Not surprisingly, this concoction made him ill, and he
vomited into the fireplace in his house. This resulting explosion and fire
burned his house down, killing both him and his sister.

2.) Three Brazilian men were flying in a light aircraft at low altitude
when another plane approached. It appears that they decided to
moon the occupants of the other plane, but lost control of their own
aircraft and crashed. They were all found dead in the wreckage with their
pants around their ankles.

3.) A 22-year-old, Glade Drive, Reston, VA, man was found dead after he
tried to use octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad
trestle. Fairfax County police said Eric Barcia, a fast-food worker, taped
a bunch of these straps together, wrapped one end around one foot,
anchored the other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped and hit
the pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators
think Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. "The length of
the cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between the
trestle and the ground," Carmichael said. Police say the apparent cause of
death was "Major trauma."

4.) A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites. It seems that he and a
friend were playing a game of catch, using the rattlesnake as a ball.
The friend, no doubt a future Darwin Awards candidate, was hospitalized.

5.) Employee in a medium-sized warehouse in west Texas noticed the smell
of a gas presumed a leak. Sensibly, management evacuated the building
extinguishing all potential sources of ignition: lights, power, etc.
After the building had been evacuated, two "technicians" from the gas
company were dispatched. Upon entering the building, they found they had
difficulty navigating in the dark. To their frustration, none of the lights worked.

Witnesses later described the sight of one of the technicians reaching
into his pocket and retrieving an object that resembled a cigarette lighter.
Upon operation of the lighter like object, the gas in the warehouse
exploded, sending pieces of the warehouse up to three miles away.
Nothing was found of the technicians, but the lighter, being at the exact
center of the resulting mкlйe, was virtually untouched by the explosion.

The "technician" suspected of causing the blast, had never been thought of
by his peers as "all there."

And the Winner:

6.) Based on a bet by the other members of his golfing threesome,
Everett Sanchez tried to wash his own "balls" in a ball washer at
the local golf course. Proving once again that beer and testosterone are
a bad mix, Sanchez managed to straddle the ball washer and dangle his
scrotum in the machine.

Much to his dismay, one of his buddies upped the ante by spinning the
crank on the machine with Sanchez's scrotum in place, thus wedging them
solidly in the mechanism. Sanchez,who immediately passed his threshold of
pain, collapsed and tumbled from his perch. Unfortunately for Sanchez, the
post of the ball washer was more than strong enough to support
his body weight, and his sack was the weakest link. Sanchez's scrotum was
ripped open during the fall, and one testicle was plucked from him forever
and remained in the ball washer, while the other testicle was compressed and
flattened as it was pulled between the housing of the washer, and the
rotating machinery inside.

To add insult to injury, Sanchez then broke a new $300.00 graphite shaft
driver that he had just purchased from the pro shop, and was attempting
to use as a cane. Sanchez was rushed to the hospital for surgery, and the
remaining threesome was asked to leave the course.

This last one wouldn't normally count, because the golfer didn't die.
But because he cannot reproduce as a result of his qualifying act of
stupidity, we have allowed it.

OUCH!

Stupid is as stupid does.

Well, at least he cant reproduce now. That is so funny. Darwin awards are great. Its always good for a laugh. I usually dont laugh at others mifortunes, but some of these are just too crazy to believe. Would someone actually do that?

WOW!! I used to go to Lake Accotink Park every day....I lived just around the corner and rode the trails...

I have been under the railroad bridge many times..stupid is as stupid does.....