Unutterably Silly Darwin Awards!

[krisk]

we've all come across them either in person or reading about them. these are the things that make you concerned for the future of the human race.

here's my entry for today; http://www.komonews.com/news/local/46370067.html, a young lady fell down the side of a hill while trying to pee after drinking heavily.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by krisk

we've all come across them either in person or reading about them. these are the things that make you concerned for the future of the human race.

here's my entry for today; http://www.komonews.com/news/local/46370067.html, a young lady fell down the side of a hill while trying to pee after drinking heavily.

She should have been cited for pure stupidity. Although, I do think, technically to be given a Darwin Award, you have to die and remove your clearly damaged genes from distribution.

[krisk]

this is indeed true, maybe it should be candidates for Darwin awards.

here's another;

http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/46472037.html, guy boasted on My Space about robbing a bank and was subsequently busted

[ahammer]

what about this one

TEXARKANA, Ark. – A man caught breaking into the Miller County Jail last summer will soon leave his cell there for one in an Arkansas prison. Bobby Finley, 20, was accused of planning to sell drugs and tobacco inside the jail. Finley pleaded guilty Thursday to five felony counts and was sentenced to a total of 19 years in prison. But the sentences are to run consecutively and top out at five years.

Guards caught Finley using bolt cutters to get through the chain-link fence that surrounds the jail. Prosecutors said Finley had cocaine and marijuana in his possession.

"In 19 years of prosecuting you always encounter cases that make you believe you've seen it all — until you see a case of this nature," Deputy Prosecutor Carlton Jones said. "It never ceases to amaze me."

Finley was found mentally competent to stand trial following a psychological evaluation.

Finley will get credit for time served for the 316 days he spent in jail since getting caught.

In his deal with prosecutors, Finley was sentenced to five years each on two possession counts and three years each on three counts of furnishing prohibited substances: cocaine, marijuana and tobacco.

When Finley was arrested last summer, Arkansas State Trooper Scott Clark investigated and said Finley was a moment away from getting inside the fence.

"This is the first one I've ever worked where somebody went to so much trouble to remove an obstacle so they could bring contraband into the jail," Clark said at the time. "It's definitely a first for me."

[krisk]

*snort* breaking INTO jail!!!

[RickyMaveety]

I like this one that actually did win a Darwin Award:

23-year-old Strahinja Raseta was wanted by Croatian police for murder, as well as for a spectacular robbery of a central post office. He fled to Serbia to evade the law.

But even bad guys have friends. Raseta had a friend, and his friend had lent him E15,000. Some loans can never be repaid. This was such a loan. Finding himself unable to earn or steal the funds needed to reimburse his friend, Raseta attempted to end the matter in another way--by murdering the lender!

He crawled under his creditor's Jeep and planted an explosive. However, the muffler was still hot, and the heat set off the explosive while Raseta was beneath the vehicle. He died in hospital the next day in the Serbian capital city of Belgrade, illustrating the truth of the Shakespearean adage, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be."