[greydog]

For Your Entertainment

[narby]

Why is it that there are no complainers about the naming of the "Darwin" award after such an evil mad scientist?

(I'm sure there will be complaints now)

[Puppage]

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

That story,yarn has been around for years.

[metalmanx2j]

Oh man...that was so funny. I love those Darwin Awards...they crack me up!

[karnage]

#3 - the woman gets the Darwin Award, not the shoveler.

[Labyrinthos]

Only the first one qualifies for a Darwin Award. To win a Darwin Award, one must die as a result of his or her own incredible stupidity, thereby removing themself from the gene pool forever.

[mabelkitty]

I'm still laughing over #4....how brilliant.

[knews_hound]

I don't believe these are really the Darwin Awards.

I looked here http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/ and there are no 2004 OR 2005 awards listed.

I don't want to rag on you but I posted a list of "Darwin Awards" I received on email and was chastened to discover it was hokum.

Cheers,

knews hound

[Imaverygooddriver]

No Kennedys included this year?

[Tribune7]

ping

Although I've seen a lot of these before 2005 & 2004 & 2003.

[Imaverygooddriver]

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

Isn`t that great? TAKE THE MONEY DAMN YOU!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago, returned with his Vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her."

Proving once again that you do not mess with Yankees during a freakin' BLIZZARD!

This "Darwin" thing has an endless lifecycle, doesn't it? Why wasn't this MY 'Million Dollar Idea?' Grrrrr!

[SteveMcKing]

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago, returned with his Vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

That's murder, and I scorn those who take humor in it.

[johnb838]

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago, returned with his Vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

Which one is the Darwin award honor winner? I say it's the woman. Everybody knows you don't park in the parking place somebody has spent two freaking hours shoveling out. Over and Over and Over again all winter long. You get squatters rights on those spots.

I've often expected Chicagoans to booby trap their parking places with concertina wire, trip wires, and hand grenades between the already ubiquitous sawhorses and plywood "If you value ur car don't park here" signs.

[John Valentine]

The Darwin Awards are not to honor the "least evolved among us", but to honor those who have done the most to improve the human race by removing their genes from future generations.

So, as you point out, for the most part these are NOT Darwin candidates or awardees. Entertaining, to be sure, but not Darwins...

[Right Wing Assault]

I thought the Darwin awards were only open to people who died in a stupid way. Are these real or fake?

[MattinNJ]

BTT for later reading

[libs_kma]

My favorite Darwin was one I read a couple of years ago. It seems a man in Russia had decided to turn his handgun over to the Police during a gun amnesty, but stopped to have a drink first.

An observant patron noticed the gun and he and other patrons physically held the man down and took his handgun from him. To get it away, they threw it on a nearby pool table where some other guys were playing.

Well, this mental midget with a pool stick decides he'll pick up the gun by putting his his pool stick through the finger guard and points the stick at the ceiling, which causes the gun to slide down the stick.

All would have been fine, except that pool sticks have a greater circumference the closer you get to the bottom. When the gun reached the bottom, it pushed the trigger in enough to fire the handgun, and the shot hit the guy with the pool stick in the stomach.

Now thats a classic.

[Born Conservative]

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago, returned with his Vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

I thought Snow Rage only happened in Pennsylvania?