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More Darwin Awards

 

> > > NOMINEE No. 1: [san Jose Mercury News] An unidentified

> > > man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend's

> > > windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun

> > > discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

> > >

> > > NOMINEE No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette] James Burns, 34, (a

> > > mechanic) of Alamo, Michigan, was killed in March as he was

> > > trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck."

> > > Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns

> > > hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a

> > > troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however,

> > > and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft!"

> > >

> > > NOMINEE No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record] Ken Charles

> > > Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in

> > > Newton, NC Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone

> > > beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed

> > > instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which

> > > discharged when he drew it to his ear.

> > >

> > > NOMINEE No. 4: [uPI, Toronto] Police said a lawyer

> > > demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto

> > > skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and

> > > plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said

> > > Gary Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto

> > > Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining

> > > the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students.

> > > Hoy had previously conducted demonstrations of window

> > > strength according to police reports. Peter Lawyers, managing

> > > partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson told the Toronto

> > > Sun newspaper that Hoy was one of the "best and brightest"

> > > members of the 200-man association".

> > >

> > > NOMINEE No. 5: [bloomberg News Service] A terrible

> > > diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death

> > > of a man who was killed by his own gas. There was no mark on

> > > his body but an autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas

> > > in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans

> > > and cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the

> > > right combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his

> > > sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over

> > > his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows been opened,

> > > it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut up in his

> > > near-airtight bedroom. According to the article, "He was a big

> > > man with a huge capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three

> > > of the rescuers got sick and one was hospitalised.

> > >

> > > NOMINEE No. 6: ["News of the Weird"] Michael Anderson

> > > Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent

> > > several years awaiting South Carolina's electric chair on a

> > > murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in

> > > prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell and attempting

> > > to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

> > >

> > > NOMINEE NO. 7: ["The Indianapolis Star"]. A cigarette

> > > lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, Indiana.

> > > A Jay County man using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel

> > > of a muzzleloader was killed Monday night when the weapon

> > > discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory

> > > David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home about

> > > 11:30 p.m. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber

> > > muzzleloader that had not been firing properly. He was using

> > > the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

> > >

> > > NOMINEE No. 8: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario] A man

> > > cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment

> > > in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death.

> > > Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheeled chair when the

> > > accident occurred, said Inspector Arcy Honer of the Peel

> > > Regional police. "It appears the chair moved and he went over

> > > the balcony," Honer said.

> > >

> > > AND FINALLY: (now, these two guys don't count because

> > > they aren't dead (yet), but this is a goodie, nonetheless).

> > >

> > > [Arkansas Democrat Gazette]

> > > Two local men were seriously injured when their pickup

> > > truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on

> > > State Highway 38 early Monday morning. Woodruff County

> > > deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after

> > > midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy

> > > Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock are listed in serious

> > > condition at Baptist Medical Center. The accident occurred

> > > as the two men were returning to Des Arc after a frog-gigging

> > > trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pick-up truck

> > > headlights malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the

> > > headlight fuse on the older model truck had burned out. As a

> > > replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the

> > > 22-caliber bullet from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box

> > > next to the steering wheel column. After inserting the bullet,

> > > the headlights again began to operate properly and the two men

> > > proceeded toward the White River Bridge. After travelling

> > > about 20 miles and just before crossing the river, the bullet

> > > apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right

> > > testicle. The vehicle swerved sharply right exiting the pavement

> > > and striking a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions

> > > from the accident, but will require surgery to repair the other

> > > wound. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated

> > > and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when

> > > Thurston shot his balls off or we might both be dead" stated

> > > Wallis. "I've been a trooper for ten years in this part of the

> > > world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those

> > > two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder.

> > >

> > > Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia, Poole's wife asked

> > > how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone get them

> > > from the truck. (Way to go, Lavinia.)