Darwin Awards

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Does anyone know of any good Darwin Awards? I know one: One guy (don't know his name) was shaking a pop machine for a pop, and then the pop machine fell on him and he died. He got a free pop, as well as a Darwin Award lol.

So how does your delight in unfortunate death tie in with your Christian beliefs?

Hey, cause and effect. He attacked the coke machine and CAUSED the machine to fall on him. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Gravity sucks, if he hadn't been thieving he wouldn't have these problems (i.e. the being dead and all ). No sympathy here at all.

death is a rather harsh penalty for stealing a coke

It wasn't the penalty for stealing a coke. It was the penalty for shaking the machine so hard it fell over.

Reality is often harsh and unforgiving.

Where is it written that Christians have to amputate their sense of humor and be sourpusses?

I guy in peru had a toothache and a pistol...you know the rest

darwin awards are very cool!

do you have a head ache?

not anymore

Um the darwin awards are not real. it's a bad joke promoted by a misunderstanding of the nature of what being fit means to a biologist. The so called darwin awards are cruel and anti-human and sould be taken as the cruel joke they are.

I used to be a member of the Darwin Awards Philosophy Forum (BBS).

Well I admit some times the stories are funny but I guess I'm too much a liberal because in general I do not take pleasure in hearing
about others misfortune. Though in fairness to the rest of the world
Mel Brooks defined comedy like this(may not be his precise words): "If I slip on banana peeling its a tragedy if you do its funny". In general aspies do not follow the mob mentality but I think in this case the mostly false sense of over all superior mental fitness makes alot aspies view alot others as dumb. But in reality the ability
to pass college calculus might have little to do with one dumb mistake that cost you your life.

I know of 2 awards that I also saw written up in newspapers, so I believe they are all real incidents.

On duck opening a few years ago, a some guys and a kid overloaded a boat on Lake Cairn Curran (notoriously dangerous in bad weather and 2 hours from me). They were wearing waders, ammo belts, had a case of ammo, guns, dogs, etc. all in a small 10' alloy boat, pre-dawn (dark night). Because there was no room, they left the life jackets on shore. They all drowned, causing the Liberal politicians here to predictably try to ban kids from duck opening. I remember that duck opening. I had to cross Lake Mokoan (also dangerous in bad weather). It was one of the few times I bothered to put my life jacket on.

The other was a guy who had been deer hunting and put his loaded rifle inside his locked car with his dog. The dog apparently jumped on the trigger, firing a bullet thru the car door and killing the hunter who was outside the car.

These were Darwin awards and I know are true stories

Lighten up, people....

My fave was the guy who rigged a jet-assisted takeoff (JATO) unit to his car, and wound up losing control (BIG surprise there ) and rocketing himself into the side of a cliff.

And of course there was also the guy whose friend shot him through the eye (and consequently the brain) with a crossbow -- the two were taking turns shooting apples off of each other's heads.

My favourite's the one where the electrician decides to use copper wire instead of string to fly a kite in his street. The wire hits a powerline, and the rest should be obvious.