Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when
> the Darwin Awards
>
> are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
> Here then, are the
>
> glorious winners.
>
>
>
> Darwin Award Winner: When his 38-caliber revolver
> failed to fire at
>
> his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach,
> California,
>
> 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.....
>
>
>
> And now, the honorable mentions:
>
>
>
> 2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger
> in a meat cutting
>
> machine and, after a little hopping around,
> submitted a claim to his
>
> insurance company. The company expecting negligence,
> sent out one of its
>
> men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine
> and lost a finger.
>
> The chef's claim was approved.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 5. An American teenager was in the hospital
> recovering from serious
>
> head wounds received from an oncoming train. When
> asked how he received
>
> the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply
> trying to see how
>
> close he could get his head to a moving train before
> he was hit.
>
>
>
> 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?)
>
>
>
> 7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty
> badly. He decided that
>
> he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store
> window, grab some
>
> booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and
> heaved it over his head
>
> at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit
> the would-be thief
>
> on the
>
> head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store
> window was made of
>
> Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
>
>
>
> 8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience
> store, a man
>
> grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911
> immediately, and the
>
> woman was able to give them a detailed description
> of the snatcher.
>
> Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher.
> They put him in
>
> the car and drove back
>
> to the store. The thief was then taken out of the
> car and told to stand
>
> there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes,
> officer, that's
>
> her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."
>
>
>
> 9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a
> man walked into a
>
> Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m.,
> flashed a gun, and
>
> demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he
> said he couldn't
>
> open the cash register without a food order. When
> the man ordered onion
>
> rings, the clerk
>
> said they weren't available for breakfast . The man,
> frustrated, walked
>
> away.
>
>
>
> A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!
>
>
>
> 10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a
> motor home parked on
>
> a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained
> for. Police
>
> arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled
> up next to a motor
>
> home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said
> that the man admitted
>
> to trying to
>
> steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the
> motor home's sewage
>
> tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined
> to press charges,
>
> saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
