[tcb] Re: Fw: This Year's Darwin Award Nominees(it's Friday)
- From: Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:31 -0600
Ouch!
I bet shooting your balls off hurts like a mofo.
Dang.
singlecabboy wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 1/15/10, Winters-Jenkins <rwinters@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> From: Winters-Jenkins <rwinters@xxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Fw: This Year's Darwin Award Nominees
>> To: "Tonya" <PSafetyGypman@xxxxxxx>, SmallsForD@xxxxxxx, "singlecabboy"
>> <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>, "shawanda carter" <cartershawanda@xxxxxxxxx>,
>> "richard merrell" <rlkmerrell@xxxxxxx>, "Michelle Lackey"
>> <lmlackey67@xxxxxxx>, "Melody Cowger" <thecowgerfamily@xxxxxxxxx>, "Lewis
>> Bright" <lewishbright@xxxxxxxxx>, kfschatz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:27 PM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This Year's Darwin Award
>> Nominees
>> #8
>>
>> [San Jose Mercury
>> News]:
>> An
>>
>> unidentified man using a shotgun as a club to break a
>>
>> former
>> girl friend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to
>> death when
>> the
>> gun discharged, blowing a hole in his
>> gut.
>>
>> #7
>>
>> [Kalamazoo
>> Gazette]:
>> James
>>
>> Burns, 34, a mechanic from Alamo, MI, 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."
>>
>> #6
>>
>> [Hickory Daily
>> Record]:
>> Ken
>>
>> Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death
>>
>> in
>> December 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. [Note:
>> Would he have shot himself a second time
>> if they had called back?]
>>
>> #5
>>
>> [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 Garry
>> Hoy, 39, fell
>> into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank
>> Tower early Friday evening
>> as he was explaining the strength of
>> the buildings windows to visiting law
>> students. Hoy previously
>> has conducted demonstrations of window strength
>> according to
>> police reports. Peter Lawson, 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. [Note: The remainder
>> of the association were
>> subsequently forbidden to enter tall buildings on
>> pain of
>> death.]
>>
>> #4
>>
>> [The 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
>> attempting
>> to fix his small TV
>> set, he bit into a wire and was
>> electrocuted.
>>
>> #3
>>
>> [The Indianapolis
>> Star]:
>> A
>>
>> cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in
>>
>> Dunkirk, IN. A Jay County man, using a cigarette
>> lighter to
>> check the barrel
>> of a muzzle loader, 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 at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor
>> was
>>
>> cleaning a .54-caliber muzzle-loader that had not
>> been firing
>> properly. He
>> was using the lighter to look into the barrel when
>> the gunpowder
>> ignited.
>> #2
>>
>> [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
>> wheelchair when
>> the accident
>> occurred," said Inspector Darcy Honer of the
>> Peel
>> Regional Police. "It
>> appears that the chair moved, and he went
>> over the balcony," Honer said.
>>
>> #1
>>
>> [Arkansas Democrat
>> Gazette]:
>> Two
>>
>> local men were injured when their pickup truck left the
>>
>> road
>> and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38
>> early Monday.
>>
>> 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, were returning to Des
>> Arc after a frog-catching trip. On an
>> overcast Sunday night,
>> Poole's 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 bullets from his
>> pistol fit
>> perfectly
>> into the fuse holders next to the steering column.
>> Upon inserting the
>> bullet, the headlights again began to
>> operate properly and the two men then
>> proceeded toward the
>> White River bridge.
>>
>> After
>>
>> traveling approximately 20 miles, and just before
>> crossing the
>> river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and
>> struck
>>
>> Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply
>> right,
>> exited the
>> pavement and struck a tree. Poole suffered only
>> minor cuts and abrasions
>> from the accident, but will require
>> extensive surgery to repair the damage
>> to his testicles, which
>> will never operate as intended.
>>
>> 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 be dead," stated Wallis
>> "I've been a trooper
>> for 10 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, Poole's loving wife,
>>
>> Lavinia,
>> asked how many frogs the boys had caught and "Did
>> anyone remember
>>
>> to get them from the truck?"
>>
>> Although
>>
>> Poole and Wallis did not actually die as a result
>> of their
>> misadventure (as is normally required by Darwin Award
>> Official
>>
>> Rules), it can be argued that Poole did, in fact,
>> effectively
>> remove himself
>> from the gene
>> pool.
>>
>>
>>
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