[tcb] Re: Fw: This Year's Darwin Award Nominees(it's Friday)
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I second that. I can't stand her.
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Subject: [tcb] Re: Fw: This Year's Darwin Award Nominees(it's Friday)
Watching Oprah makes me want to shoot myself in the head.
Julie wrote:
The guy who shot himself in the head instead of answering the phone
could have been watching Oprah in bed before he fell asleep which
would not be that much different than watching Oprah while on a couch.
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On Jan 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, theresabuckner@xxxxxxx
<mailto:theresabuckner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> You noticed none of these men hurt them selves sitting on the couch
> , watching Opra . I am just
> funnin
>
> Doug
>
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> From: Julie <julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx
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>
> Funny thing how all of these nominees happen to be men. I wonder why?
>
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 1:07 PM, singlecabboy
> <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Paul Smith
> >
> > H.B.B
> > T.C.B
> > Transporters at the Point 7 October 8,9,and 10, 2010"Love all,trust
> > a few,Do wrong to none"
> >
> >
> > --- On Fri, 1/15/10, Winters-Jenkins <rwinters@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:rwinters@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Winters-Jenkins <rwinters@xxxxxxx <mailto:rwinters@xxxxxxx>>
> >> Subject: Fw: This Year's Darwin Award Nominees
> >> To: "Tonya" <PSafetyGypman@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:PSafetyGypman@xxxxxxx>>, SmallsForD@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:SmallsForD@xxxxxxx>, >> "singlecabboy"
> <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>>, "shawanda
> carter" <cartershawanda@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:cartershawanda@xxxxxxxxx>>>
> >, "richard merrell" <rlkmerrell@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:rlkmerrell@xxxxxxx>>, "Michelle Lackey" <lmlackey67@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:lmlackey67@xxxxxxx>>> >, "Melody Cowger"
> <thecowgerfamily@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:thecowgerfamily@xxxxxxxxx>>,
> "Lewis Bright" <lewishbright@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:lewishbright@xxxxxxxxx>>> >, kfschatz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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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