The Darwin awards are to designed to commemorate the men and women who gave their "all" in an effort to improve the human species, by removing themselves from the human gene pool. Of necessity, the honor is generally bestowed posthumously.

See http://www.darwinawards.com/ for some more history.

I have a local nomanee...

During the week, a person was performing circle work in the local Bunnings (think Home Depot or Lowes for the US folk) car park in the early hours of the morning. Apparently he had a moment, lost control of the car into the LPG cylinders, and was incinerated.

I have not read any media reports on this incident, although I checked the scene last night, and there is definately evidence of a decent fire at this location.

Cheers,
Hymee.

what kinda website is that???

...i find it interesting that there are never people so smart that they conciously decided to end their lives before nature...

heres a good one



This is a true story and was the 1st place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Darwin Award Contest. A Charlotte NC man, having purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against fire among other things. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these fine cigars and without yet having made his first premium payment on the insurance policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim the man stated that the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires".

The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars in normal fashion. The man sued and won! In delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated that - nevertheless - the man held a policy with the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be "unacceptable fire," and was therefore obligated to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the man for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires".

Now for the best part. After the man cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.

tribal
that is a funny ass story

That story's great...

It's a wonderful yarn but unfortunately untrue, been circulating since the 60s

http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp

I nominate anyone who dies street racing...

RotaryStalker

Originally posted by RotaryStalker
I nominate anyone who dies street racing...

RotaryStalker

Except of course, innocent bystanders.

Originally posted by JaxFL_RX8
Except of course, innocent bystanders.

YOU THINK

Still a great story, even if it is not true.

I suppose the first clue was the opening line, "This is a true story..."

Same psychological usage as when people have to continually say, "To be honest", "To tell you the truth", or my personal favorite, "You know I never do this, but..."

thats funny

I always use to be honest with customers:D

It is the best policy.;)

I think this is a great way to bring back an old thread.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/od_nm/brazil_grenade_dc