Posted on 12/23/2013 3:56:39 PM PST by virgil283
" 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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Most of it is made up BS.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/18/local/me-only18
Valley Folklore Society Helps Shoot Down Another Urban Myth
September 18, 2005|Steve Harvey
Awidely circulated Internet list titled “2005 Darwin Awards” caught my eye with this item:
“When his .38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a holdup in Long Beach, Calif., 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.”
The item also caught the eye of the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society, debunker of urban myths on its snopes.com website. The society said it was unable to verify the unknown author’s item, or several others on the list, through “the news sources we routinely search.”
(The society also pointed out that the folks at DarwinAwards.com, authors of several books about documented fatal goofs, said they are not responsible for the above list.)
I phoned Long Beach police, who also said they had no record of the looking-down-the-barrel mishap.
There. I trust I’ve saved Long Beach’s honor.
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#11 - Honorable mention: the idiot who applied “Darwin Awards” to this list.
That’s not how it works. This is just a list of morons.
“In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species’ chances of long-term survival.”
“At-Risk Survivors
The stupidity displayed by the participants
in the following tales stops short of the ultimate
sacrifice, but we salute their spirit and innovation.”
So At-Risk Survivors, = AKA Runners Up
2013 Darwin Award
Lifetime Achievement Award or Honorable Mention should be “Obama Voters”
An actor who made movies with fast cars jumped into one of the most unsafe fast cars ever built as a passenger, they took off and he was killed a few minutes later.
Well, only according to the blogger at the source link, as of 8/2013. Don’t know where he got his info, as there are no links supporting his post...
If you go to the real site (linked elsewhere here), they haven’t posted any yearly award lists since 2011....
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.
RV Waste Tanks don’t work that way. You’ve got an outlet and a valve. You attach the waste hose to the dump site, pull the valve and gravity/hydrodynamics does the rest.
You have to die to be a real honoree of the DA.
Several of these are retreads from old non-Darwinian feats.
only one died, not much of an improvement to the gene pool...
I have seen the video of the guy bouncing the brick off the window and knocking himself out... I saw that a few years back, actually... probably on Tosh.0.
I read the one about the guy trying to steal gas from a motor home’s sewage tank over 30 years ago.
Actually, for some reason they have hidden the last two years. But I squirreled around, and found the 2013 nominees.
So far, only two nominees, one confirmed as true:
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2013.html
My thinking exactly.
He had a chance to take the bus back, to pick up his pay, and high-tail it out of town! Pretty clever, actually, in a highly thoughtless way.... Funny story, but not really a Darwin award. (Funny, of course, but not to those receiving free bus rides....)
“They walk among us, they can reproduce. “
Worse; they vote.
#8 has been around for years.
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That's actually justifiable homocide.
yeah, I found those also, after I posted... It seems odd that there are only two. Perhaps they are saving the good ones for the book, and don’t make others available on their website.... }:^(
Add Hugin to number 11. :-)
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