Darwin Awards

[BassyBill]

"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 in the exchange of fire."
47 shots fired, 23 hits...that's not very good, good thing noone was standing behind the guy...


I fail to see humor in death.

From the Darwin Awards site:

I don't get it. How is it humorous to joke and laugh at death?
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." - Peter Ustinov
It's just one of the mysteries of life. Black humor entertains some of us. There is nothing wrong with either liking or not liking it. My family and friends, we actually laugh at the notion of finding each other featured on these pages. If you want to understand the humor, is to consider an evil person who earns her ill-gotten rewards. For example, the (legendary) absentminded terrorist who sent a letter-bomb with insufficient postage. The package was returned, and the terrorist opened the package, and blew himself up! It starts with poetic justice, and the sensibilities of Fate, Nature herself deciding, "Should I stay or should I go?"

 

[Komakino]

It annoys me when someone forwards something on without checking it first. Like heroin needles in the McDonalds playland. And that girl that's not even missing.

What a waste of interspace.

Ugh, and all those THOUSANDS about MSN messenger to start charging for use...I must get that one several times a year.

 

[Mark Perry]

If only they had this one on video: http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-17.html

(no fatalities involved)

 

[ulrich]

Here's a stupid zoo keeper and elephant story, that I believe to be true, as it was told to me by the wife, of a senior staff member at the zoo in question.

One of the zoo's african bull elepants was always in rut (not normal for elephants) After one of the female elephants turned him down, he became engraged, and threw her over a fence. So the zoo keeper goes and smacks the bull with a shovel. The bull threw the keeper about 30 feet, stomped on him for a while, left him be, and stomped some more. Another keeper distracted the bull long enough to remove the corpse.

 

[IanStephenson]

The guy holding up the gun shop actually happened. More bizarly it happenned in the UK - do you guys realize how many banks, post offices, filling stations, 7-11s and other hold up targets you need to drive past to FIND a gun shop in the UK?

It happened in Colchester in around 1989/90 (I lived 5 mins from the only firearms shop I've ever known aboutb - they just don't exist here). Slightly less dramatic than the story, but guy goes in and holds up the guy behind the counter. He fails to notice the tech working in the back shop who picks up the nearest weapon, shoots and shoots him dead with one well aimed shot.

pretty dumb, considering how rare guns are in the UK to pick virtually the ONLY target in the county with armed staff.