"Oh let me be....your sledgehammer..."
Posted on 08/09/2006 12:23:06 PM PDT by Mount Athos
A Brazilian man died on Tuesday when he tried to open what police believe was a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer in a mechanical workshop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
Another man who was in the workshop at the time of the explosion was rushed to a hospital with severe burns, a police officer told Reuters. The workshop was destroyed and several cars parked outside caught fire.
Police found several unexploded army issue rocket-propelled grenades in the workshop. They believe the ammunition had been brought there by scavengers wanting to sell them as scrap metal, but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases.
BUSH's FAULT!
"Oh let me be....your sledgehammer..."
This was a runner up. Notice how the fish couldn't be pulled out of his throat because the fish scales + fins prevented it.
Fish Swallower Chokes To Death
VIBURNUM, Mo. (AP) -- A man who apparently had spent the day drinking with friends choked to death trying to swallow a live, 5-inch fish.
Todd Poller's friends reported hearing the 45-year-old yell: "Hey, watch this," before he grabbed a perch from the water and dropped it headfirst into his mouth. Iron County Sheriff Alan Mathes said Poller choked and gasped as his friends tried to dislodge the fish. He was pronounced dead when emergency crews arrived.
An autopsy found Poller died from asphyxiation from having the fish lodged in his throat. Aside from choking, Poller suffered lacerations to the inside of his throat from the fish's fins.(Associated Press Thursday, May 17, 2001)
Criteria are as follows.
The article did not specify if condition 3 was satisfied to the satisfaction of the Father.
I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
Youd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
Im going to be the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it
(my apologies to Peter Gabriel)
Funny you should mention. Last night the lady across the street backed her car into my minivan parked in front. Knocked the front end six feet across the sidewalk onto my lawn.
LOL!!!
You're lucky this wasn't an unconventional immigrant doing one of the jobs Americans don't want to do - you'd be SOL.
Wasn't it in Brazil where some scrap company got a Cesium-137 irradiator from a hospital, opened it up, and let the local kids play with the glow-in-the-dark powder they found inside?
At least in this case relatively few people were hurt, though I feel for the guy's family.
Guess he won't be running as an Independent Democrat.
"Hey Manuel, watch this..."
She's Chinese. But her daughter called me today and assured me they are insured.
That does sound about right - guess the gene pool could use a little thinning out down there.
I don't know. Next time I am in Framingham, a/k/a Little Rio, I will ask.
"I think this one's a winner."
Yeah, this one's gonna be hard to top, unless someone slams the trigger on a nuke.
No video for the posthumus Darwin Awards nominations?
Two songs come to mind..."If I had a hammer" and "My ding-a-ling". A Darwin nominee for sure.
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