Author Topic: Darwin Award (Read 494 times)

Pollock · « **on:** August 30, 2004, 11:14:31 AM »

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/3690110/detail.html

Sandman · « **Reply #1 on:** August 30, 2004, 11:26:53 AM »

Doesn't one have to die to be a recipient?

Pollock · « **Reply #2 on:** August 30, 2004, 11:30:33 AM »

Doesn't one have to die to be a recipient?

I did not know that was a pre-requisite. What award would you think it deserves sandman.

rpm · « **Reply #3 on:** August 30, 2004, 11:33:44 AM »

Non-fatal incidents are not eligible for Darwin Awards. handsomehunk yes, Darwin no.

Mini D · « **Reply #4 on:** August 30, 2004, 11:36:49 AM »

Darwin awards involve removing one's self from the gene pool. Usually this involves death, but a few have been allowed that involved "removing the capacity to reproduce".

This story simply falls under the drunken idiots meet mr murphy category. It's graphic, but not necessarily that unusual. Of all the drunken people that left that party, only one swerved off of the road hitting a guidline while the passenger was retching out the window. If they'd have hit someone else and killed them this wouldn't even be news.

Mini D · « **Reply #5 on:** August 30, 2004, 11:38:52 AM »

BTW, from the 2004 Darwin Awards:

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6) Based on a bet by the other members of his golfing threesome, Everett Sanchez tried to wash his own "balls" in a ball washer at the local golf course. Proving once again that beer and testosterone are a bad mix, Sanchez managed to straddle the ball washer and dangle his apple in the machine. Much to his dismay, one of his buddies upped the ante by spinning the crank on the machine with Sanchez's apple in place, thus wedging them solidly in the mechanism. Sanchez, who immediately passed his threshold of pain, collapsed and tumbled from his perch. Unfortunately for Sanchez, the post of the ball washer was more than strong enough to support his body weight, and his sack was the weakest link. Sanchez's apple was ripped open during the fall, and one testicle was plucked from him forever and remained in the ball washer, while the other testicle was compressed and flattened as it was pulled between the housing of the washer, and the rotating machinery inside. To add insult to injury, Sanchez then broke a new $300.00 graphite shaft driver that he had just purchased from the pro shop, and was attempting to use as a cane. Sanchez was rushed to the hospital for surgery, and the remaining threesome was asked to leave the course. This last one wouldn't normally count, because the golfer didn't die. But because he cannot reproduce as a result of his qualifying act of stupidity, we have allowed it.

rpm · « **Reply #6 on:** August 30, 2004, 11:40:41 AM »

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Police said Hutcherson and Brohm, who were friends since high school, were hanging out at a bar Saturday night and left after Brohm said he felt sick.

About a mile and a half from the bar, Hutcherson swerved off the road and hit the support wire of a telephone pole, which severed Brohm's head, police said. They did not say why Brohm was hanging out the passenger-side window when he was struck.

I'd say the detectives were not too bright in Marietta.

Pollock · « **Reply #7 on:** August 30, 2004, 11:53:52 AM »

The rumor in atlanta not confirmed is there was traces of vomit near the severed head. That would assume perhaps the dude was puking out the window. Ouch ! what a way to go...

Mini D · « **Reply #8 on:** August 30, 2004, 11:56:24 AM »

I'm sorry, but are you saying that they updated the story to tell you there was vomit at the scene of the accident? Are there, like, teams working on this late breaking news?

Pollock · « **Reply #9 on:** August 30, 2004, 12:02:52 PM »

The vomit part has not made the news. I dont think it was relevent they guy is dead why add insult to injury. I was over near Dobbins AFB this morning with a client and one of his relatives is a police officer in cobb county, and that is the rumour.

Airhead · « **Reply #10 on:** August 30, 2004, 12:05:01 PM »

We need to put safety barriers around telephone pole support wires.

That would solve the problem.

rpm · « **Reply #11 on:** August 30, 2004, 12:21:46 PM »

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Originally posted by Airhead
We need to put safety barriers around telephone pole support wires.

That would solve the problem.

I almost broke the support wire for my electric pole last week while brush-hogging. Was looking behind the tractor at the mower and turned around just in time. The front axle had snagged the wire and the power lines were swinging like jumpropes.

Mini D · « **Reply #12 on:** August 30, 2004, 12:26:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Airhead
We need to put safety barriers around telephone pole support wires.

That would solve the problem.

We had a couple of people trip over ladders at work. Yes, that's right, they tripped over 10-12 foot orange ladders because they weren't paying attention to something as fundamental as walking. The solution: Place cones at the bottom of the ladder because it's important that someone place a 2 foot orange cone up in front of a 10 foot orange ladder to warm people not to trip over it. The result: 10 people tripped over the cones the first week it was implimented.

Damn... I love safety.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 30, 2004, 12:27:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Doesn't one have to die to be a recipient?

Doesn't decapitation usually result in death?

Mini D · « **Reply #14 on:** August 30, 2004, 12:28:55 PM »

Someone at one of our other campuses was driving through the parking lot and set a snickers bar on the dashboard. It fell off of the dash. The person, while driving, reached down and started searching for the snickers bar and swerved hitting a telephone pole in the parking lot. The running joke around the offices about the proper safety response: Remove all snickers bars from vending machines.