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A criminal in a car chase drives off a cliff, and dies in the explosion.

This is America, so I want to know if the pop machine, gunslinger dog. or lake got sued by the victims' families . . . .

Sometimes Ma Nature takes care to see that people who are too dumb to live, don't.

"Whatever happened to Natural Selection? The kid who eats too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own!" -George Carlin

^^^ lol!

Maybe everyone else already knew this, but there was a movie that came out recently by the same name. In it there are recreations of both the falling soda machine and the guy trying to break the land speed record, as well as some others...


...incidentally, the movie was so-so.

Yeah, they ran a warehouse in the movie (not unlike real life I imagine).

I heard about a guy who was trying to take his own blood pressure. He had trouble taking a reading on his arm, so he decided that it would work better if he got a reading from his neck. Needless to say, it didn't work out to well.
Can you receive the award posthumously?

Three Hart, Michigan men tried to extend the Christmas partying by drinking a liquid they had found that appeared to be moonshine. (One wonders what sort of advice they've been giving their children - if they unfortunately have any.) Some hours later the youngest, a 20-year-old, was hospitalized and treated successfully for methanol (wood alcohol) poisoning, including undergoing kidney dialysis. Police advised the other men, a 35-year old and a 39-year-old, to seek treatment. The 35-year-old was treated and released. But the 39-year-old initially refused treatment, determined to tough it out. (You weren't expecting good judgement at this point, were you?) When his stomach cramps became more than he could handle a day later, he was hospitalized, but it was too late to save him, and he died January 1.

In France, Jacques LeFevrier left nothing to chance when he decided to commit suicide. He stood atop a sheer cliff and tied a noose around his neck. He tied the other end of the rope to a large rock. He drank some poison and set fire to his clothes. He even tried to shoot himself at the last moment. He jumped and fired the pistol.

The bullet missed him completely and cut through the rope above him. Now freed from the threat of hanging, he plunged into the sea. The dunking extinguished the flames and made him vomit the poison. He was dragged out of the water by a kind fisherman and was taken to a hospital, where he died of hypothermia.

This is my favorite.

CBC News Coroner looking into fatal snowmobile crash

That easily beats my favorite for a Darwin Award, the one about two
snowmobilers outside Yellowknife who dared each other into a game
of "chicken" on their vehicles (first one to swerve away loses and is
called "chicken", but both men lost this time).

This darwin thing is just a topic yeah? (unless there is a series I havn't heard of) ok...

There was a police car chase in a city named Farmington. The area they would soon arrive to was a place that had a nice steep hill with storage sheds at the bottom. Surrounded by a chain gate of course. (the road on that hill goes down real quik and suddenly turns, by the way)Ehmm.. The car sped past the small shops and junior high school, and realiseing the cops were slowing down behind him the man chuckled when the car suddenly sailed off the hill and slammed into the storage shed below, makeing it easy for the driver to be arrested. The car made it over the fence as well. Dang...

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Darwin who? Ha ha ha.