THird Darwin award

[Chaos68]

This happened in my home town two days ago.

A man was going to court and he decided to hitch a ride away from the court house. He grabed the back of a 18 wheeler. The driver of the 18 wheeler didnt even notice the man was on the back. After a few minutes the simi truck got on the expressway (i-275). After a few minutes the man wanted off the speeding truck so he tryed to jump off the simi truck (which was going 60mph). Wittness says the man tryed to tuck and roll before he hit the concret.  when police got to the sceen the man was dead.

[Dinger]

I can beat that with one with another post-courthouse story that happened in my home town (Funked still lives there, so he can corroborate).

A guy was going up for his third count of DWI.  So he and his wife went down to the courthouse.  But he was determined not to go to jail; if the judged so sentenced him, he had wired himself with dynamite and would take himself and a good deal of the court with him into the next world.

He got off.
So afterwards, he goes to Hank's Place, the bar across the street, and has a couple of celebratory beers and perhaps a shot of whiskey or two.  He tells the barflies in there (it's 2:30 or so on a weekday afternoon) about his dynamite rig, which he is still wearing.
Then he and his wife drive home.  As they're cruising along Portola Ave., someone activates their garage-door opener.

Miraculously, the wife survived.

[eskimo2]

When I was in high school in Alaska I "Hookie-bobbed" on occasion.

Hookie-bobbing is when you grab onto the rear bumper of a car or truck as it drives by, squat down and "ski" on your shoes (on ice or snow covered roads).

My car was conked-out for the better part of a month and I relied on hookie-bobbing the 2ish miles to school as often as I could.
(It was much faster than walking.)

If I had died every time I did my stupidest stunt per year, I could have won the Darwin award every year for about a decade.

At least my 2 year old daughter appears to be much brighter than I.

eskimo

[miko2d]

I used to travel between cities on my bicycle by hiking the rides with the buses by following them close (1-2 feet between the front wheel and the rear of the bus).

 Due to aerodynamic involved, not only don't you have to overcome air resistance, there is even some amount of suction goin on due to turbulence right behind the bus.
 While the best I could do unassisted was 40km/hr for a very few minutes on a flat road, behind the bus I had no trouble cruising for hours at 60-70km/h.

 miko