Posted on 04/07/2005 2:46:47 PM PDT by rocksblues
It's that time again! The Darwin Awards this year are classic. These awards are given each year to bestow upon (the remains of) that individual, who through single-minded self-sacrifice, has done the most to remove undesirable elements from the human gene pool.
5th RUNNER-UP Goes to a San Anselmo, California man who died when he hit a lift tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a foam pad. 22-year old David Hubal was pronounced dead at Central Mammoth Hospital.
The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's department said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski run called Stump Alley and undid some yellow foam protectors from lift towers, said Lt. Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department. The pads are used to protect skiers who might hit towers. The group apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a tower. It has since been investigated and determined the tower he hit was the one with its pad removed.
4th RUNNER-UP Goes to Robert Puelo, 32, who was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call the police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it into his mouth and walked out without paying. Police found him unconscious in front of the store. Paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had choked him to death.
3rd RUNNER-UP Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell on him.
2nd RUNNER-UP "Man loses face at party" is what the headline read: A man at a West Virginia party (probably related to the winner last year, a man in Arkansas who used the .22 bullet to replace the fuse in his pickup truck) popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and tongue. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank during the party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D. Payne. "Another man had it in an aquarium hooked to battery and was trying to explode it. It wouldn't go off and Stromyer said: 'I'll show you how to set it off.' He put it into! his mouth, bit down and it blew all his teeth out and his lips and tongue off", Payne added. Stromyer was listed in guarded condition Wednesday with extensive facial injuries, according to a spokesperson at Charleston Area Medical Division. "I just can't imagine anyone doing something like that," Payne said.
1st! RUNNER- UP Doctors at Portland University Hospital said an Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow is lucky to be alive and will be released soon from the hospital.
Tony Roberts, 25, lost his right eye last weekend during an initiation into a men's rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous in Grant's Pass, Oregon. A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow entered Robert's right eye. Doctors said that had the arrow gone 1 millimeter to the left, a major blood vessel! would have been cut and Roberts would have died instantly.
Neurosurgeon Doctor Johnny Delashaw at the University Hospital in Portland said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of brain with the tip protruding at the rear of his skull, yet somehow managed to miss all major blood vessels. Delashaw also said that had Roberts tried to pull the arrow out on his own he surely would have killed himself. Roberts admitted afterwards that he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Said Roberts, "I feel so dumb about this." No charges have been filed, but the Josephine County district attorney's office said the initiation stunt is under investigation.
THIS YEAR'S WINNER!!!!! :The late John Pernicky and his friend, the late Sal Hawkins, of the great state of Washington, decided to attend a local Metallica concert at the George Washington amphitheater.
Having no tickets (but having had 18 beers between them), they thought it would be easy to "hop" over the nine foot fence and sneak into the show. They pulled their pickup truck over to the fence and the plan was for Mr. Pernicky, who was 100-pounds heavier than Mr. Hawkins, to hop the fence and then assist his friend over.
Unfortunately for Mr. Pernicky, there was a 30-foot drop on the other side of the fence. Having heaved himself over, he found himself crashing through a tree. His fall was abruptly halted (and broken, along with his arm) by a large branch that snagged him by his shorts. Dangling from the tree with a broken arm, he looked down and saw some bushes below him. Possibly figuring the bushes would break his fall, Pernicky removed his pocket knife and proceeded to cut away his shorts to free himself from the tree. Finally free, Mr. Pernicky crashed into holly bushes. The sharp leaves scratched his entire body and worse, without the protection of his shorts, a holly branch penetrated his rectum. To make matters worse still, on landing, his pocket knife penetrated his thigh.
Mr. Hawkins, seeing his friend in considerable pain and agony, threw him a rope and tried to pull him to safety by tying the rope to the pickup truck and slowly driving away. However, in his drunken haste/state, he put the truck into reverse and crashed through the fence, landing 30 feet below atop his friend, killing him.
Police arrived to find the crashed pickup with its driver, Hawkins, thrown 100 feet from the truck and dead from massive internal injuries. Upon moving the truck, they found Pernicky under it half-naked, scratches on his body, a holly stick in his rectum, a knife in his thigh, and his shorts dangling f rom a tree branch 25-feet in the air.
Looks like an old list. I remember the "WINNING" entree from a few years ago.
Creative writing, but the only Google confirmations for the winner are joke sites.
Sorry.
Awesome! Mother nature at it's best. ;)
I noticed some of the contestants didn't die from their injuries. Aren't Darwins only supposed to include dead DUmmies?
Yeah, the ones that don't die (but should have!) are given "Honorable Mention".
It's going to be really really really hard to top this years award winners, but I've got faith in the fatally stupid.
I thought Rachel Corie at least deserved an honorary mention. Sorry, that was '03.
Over many months how many times has this been posted? Also you'll find that not all is as written.
half the darwin awards usually turn out to be urban legends. besides, some of these idiots didn't die. so they are still soiling the gene pool.
I Didn't write it. Should of known that the thought police wouldn't like to take a break from depressing news!
Yep, seen some of these before, and I notice that there is no mention of the guy who was sitting with his boots in the oven and on his feet at the same time, trying to dry them, when they caught fire, and he ran around outside while his clothes were burning until he fell in a pile of broken glass. I suppose that the whole Darwin award thing is a little too much for the mere sin of trying to dry boots in the oven.
Thought police? No. Accuracy police? Sure.
Yes, it's funny, but we've seen this before.
Don't know. It's hard to beat last year's winner, with the .22 shell.
(3rd RUNNER-UP Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell on him.)
Wily Coyote ping!
Ho hum... Another fake Darwin Awards. Not even original.
This should be called the creative writing awards. I suspect 90% of this unsourced stuff is fiction.
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