Man killed while trying to beat dog to death (Darwin Award Winner)

Ananova ^ | 1/25/03

[South40]

Winchester, Virginia: A man who tried to beat his dog to death with a shotgun has shot himself dead instead.

Police say the Winchester, Virginia, man called his wife at work and told her their dog had bitten him and he intended to kill it.

Investigators say the shotgun must have gone off while the man was using it to beat the dog.

The stock of the weapon was broken and there appeared to be blood and dog hair on it.

The man died later at Winchester Medical Centre. An animal control officer has taken custody of the dog, but it's not known how badly injured it is.

Story filed: 11:00 Saturday 25th January 2003

[South40]

Dog - 1

Stupid man - 0

[Burkeman1]

Still - there are more embarrassing deaths. Death from attempted "autoafixia" are worse.

[rs79bm]

I guess the dog won.

[calljack]

It's a country western song.
I shot the dog and the dog won.

[South40]

Here's another:

Man killed dog, thinking it was gay

Compiled from wire services -

Ocala, Fla. _ A man accused of fatally beating a dog because he thought it was gay was convicted of animal cruelty.

George Stephens Finley, 58, could get up to a year in jail.

Witnesses testified that Finley was upset that his wife's neutered male poodle-Yorkshire terrier repeatedly tried to engage in sexual activity with another family dog, a male Jack Russell terrier.

Prosecutors said Finley hit the dog in the head with a plastic vacuum cleaner wand and hurled it against a tree. The dog lapsed into a coma and was put to death.

Finley maintained he struck the dog accidentally. A jury found him guilty Tuesday.

[Restorer]

What's with these guys?

Beat the dog with a shotgun and a plastic vacuum cleaner?

They don't have a baseball bat or a shovel?

[Servant of the Nine]

Still - there are more embarrassing deaths. Death from attempted "autoafixia" are worse.

Especially for the men found wearing garter belts and net stockings.

So9

[Skwidd]

Do not anger Cerberus, for he is an angry and vengeful god.

[South40]

Nor Argos!