Darwin Award Winner:

1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

Honorable Mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef’s claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago, returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer….$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he would just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and dove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, “Yes, officer, that’s her. That’s the lady I stole the purse from.”

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor homes sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had.

 

[QUOTE=JTDEERE]Darwin Award Winner:


3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago, returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

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Who's the stupid one in that scenario ? The man shooting the b-atch or
the b-atch, 'cuz here in Ma. we don't take someones shoveled spot without
facing the consequences, I would have reacted in an evil way myself. I
sold my weapons so I would have had too stick the shovel up her ..........

 

Idiots!!

 

lol yeh i think i woulda waited for her to go inside hook my truck up to her car with a chain and pull her *** out of my spot and leave her car somewhere so it would be fined or towed lol then take my space back

 

That'd be sweet.

 

that's my story officer. I really had nothing to do with him being shot.

 

Apparently someone doesn't know what the Darwin award is - it is given to the person(s) that took themselves out of the gene pool in the stupidest way. Most of these are just stupid people. Additionally, how can the award be given for 2005 when we aren't even half way through the year, yet?

 

Where was his car parked in the mean time? and how much traffic is there during a blizzard?

 

this guy should have put the gun in her hand and told the officer it was like story #1... she tried to shoot me to get this parking spot and blew herself away.

 

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he would just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.



Many years ago a friend who after drinking all sunday wanted more beer.
With the stores closed as it was well after midnight, Her drove to a store and with a sledge hammer started demo-ing the cinder block wall.He was almost through when he was intrupted by the cops. This was before video survaliance and window bars.

He beet the charges with a temp. insanity plea.




True story.


Russell
2004 lightning