>The 2010 Darwin Awards
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>It's that time again already? This email will keep you in laughs for a
while...
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>The Darwins are out!!!!
>Yes, it's that magical time of year again when
>the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
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>Here is the glorious winner:
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>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.
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>And now, the honorable mentions:
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>2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a
>finger in a meat cutting machine and after a
>little shopping 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 he
>also lost a finger.. The chef's claim was approved.
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>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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>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.
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>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.
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>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 moiprovided.
>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?]
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>7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty
>badly.. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder
>block through a liquor store window, grab some
>booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block
>and heaved it over his head at the window. The
>cinder block 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...
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>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 drove 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."
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>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. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]
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>10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from
>a motor home parked on a Seattle street by
>sucking on a hose, 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, but he plugged his siphon hose into
>the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The
>owner of the vehicle declined to press charges
>saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
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>In the interest of bettering mankind, please
>share these with friends and family....unless of
>course one of these individuals by chance is a
>distant relative or long lost friend. In that
>case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.
>
>*** Remember.... They walk among us, they can reproduce, and they vote.
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