I love the Darwin Awards. First – it gives me something to try and avoid when my the last grains of sand fall through my hour glass. But second, it really does explain allot in terms of some of the people you encounter in everyday life. Not to put to fine a point on it – some people really are stooooopid.
If you haven’t come across Darwin Awards, check it out at http://darwinawards.com. Last years nominees include that dude who had wheelchair rage, and smashed his way through the elevator door only to plunge to his death. We also have the couple who decided to stop for ‘some loving’ – on the largest freeway in Brazil, at 6am, under heavy fog – in the lane! Let’s hope one or both of them at least finished before the cargo truck intervened.
Two hunters were crossing a glacier. The first hunter fell through. The second hunter called after him to see if he was okay. “Yes” was the response, and so the 2nd hunter thought his friend had found a shortcut off the glazier and jumped after him. As he plummeted down the hundred foot drop to rocks below, he passed his friend, desperately clinging to a branch of a tree protruding from the snow. Who would have suspected that hunters were not all packing the full lunch in their picnic baskets!
Two guys in Washington thought all that science behind rocket making was just a waste of time. Instead, they poured four gallons of methanol into a 55 gallon drum, sat on it, and lit it up. They thought it would send them rocketing across the car park. Some bits of them presumably got there.
We have the chap in Romania who was welding, using a WW2 canon shell as his bench top. That didn’t end well.
So as we venture through this new year – add this one to your list of new years resolutions. Try not to end up as a nominee for a Darwin Award – it'ss not the way most of us want to be posthumously remembered!
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