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Subject: Darwin Awards
Hard to believe, but another year has passed... (For those who don't know
about it, the Darwin Awards are awarded every year to the person(s) who died
in the stupidest way, thereby removing themselves from the gene pool...)
AND, The nominees are:
NOMINEE No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News] An unidentified man, using a shotgun
like a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot
himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
NOMINEE No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette] James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo,
Mich., was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police
describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a
highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of
a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the
other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."
NOMINEE No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record] Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally
shot himself to death in December in Newton, N.C. Awakening to the sound
of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed
instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to
his ear.
NOMINEE No. 4: [UPI,Toronto] Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety
of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with
his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said
Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower
early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building's
windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted
demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter
Lawyers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto
Sun newspaper that Hoy was one of the "best and brightest" members of the
200-man association.
NOMINEE No. 5: [Bloomberg News Service] A terrible diet and room with no
ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his
own gas. There was no mark on his body but an autopsy showed large amounts
of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and
cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right combination of
foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the
poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had
his windows been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut
up in his near-airtight bedroom. According to the article, "He was a big man
with a huge capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers
got sick and one was hospitalized.
NOMINEE No. 6: ["News of the Weird"] Michael Anderson Godwin made News of
the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's
electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to
life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell and attempting
to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.
NOMINEE NO. 7: ["The Indianapolis Star"]. A cigarette lighter may have
triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, Indiana. A Jay County man using a
cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzleloader was killed Monday
night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said.
Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home about 11:30
p.m. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzleloader that
had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the
barrel when the gunpowder ignited.
NOMINEE No. 8: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario] A man cleaning a bird feeder
on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb
slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on
a wheeled chair when the accident occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of
the Peel Regional police. "It appears the chair moved and he went over the
balcony," Honer said.
AND FINALLY: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette] Two local men were seriously
injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near
Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday morning. Woodruff County
deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday.
Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock are
listed in serious condition at Baptist Medical Center. The accident occurred
as the two men were returning to Des Arc after a frog-gigging trip. On an
overcast Sunday night, Poole's pick-up truck's headlights malfunctioned. The
two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older model truck had
burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the
22 caliber bullet from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to
the steering wheel column. After inserting the bullet, the headlights again
began to operate properly and the two men proceeded toward the White River
bridge. After traveling about 20 miles and just before crossing the river,
the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right
testicle. The vehicle swerved sharply right exiting the pavement and
striking a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions fro! m the
accident, but will require surgery to repair the other wound. Wallis
sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we
weren't on
that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off or we might both be dead"
stated Wallis. "I've been a trooper for ten years in this part of the world,
but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how
this accident happened, " said Snyder. Upon being notified of the wreck,
Lavinia, Poole's wife, asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did
anyone get them from the truck. (Way to go, Lavinia).
Subject: Darwin Awards
Hard to believe, but another year has passed... (For those who don't know
about it, the Darwin Awards are awarded every year to the person(s) who died
in the stupidest way, thereby removing themselves from the gene pool...)
AND, The nominees are:
NOMINEE No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News] An unidentified man, using a shotgun
like a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot
himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
NOMINEE No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette] James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo,
Mich., was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police
describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a
highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of
a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the
other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."
NOMINEE No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record] Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally
shot himself to death in December in Newton, N.C. Awakening to the sound
of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed
instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to
his ear.
NOMINEE No. 4: [UPI,Toronto] Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety
of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with
his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said
Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower
early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building's
windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted
demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter
Lawyers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto
Sun newspaper that Hoy was one of the "best and brightest" members of the
200-man association.
NOMINEE No. 5: [Bloomberg News Service] A terrible diet and room with no
ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his
own gas. There was no mark on his body but an autopsy showed large amounts
of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and
cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right combination of
foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the
poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had
his windows been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut
up in his near-airtight bedroom. According to the article, "He was a big man
with a huge capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers
got sick and one was hospitalized.
NOMINEE No. 6: ["News of the Weird"] Michael Anderson Godwin made News of
the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's
electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to
life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell and attempting
to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.
NOMINEE NO. 7: ["The Indianapolis Star"]. A cigarette lighter may have
triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, Indiana. A Jay County man using a
cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzleloader was killed Monday
night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said.
Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home about 11:30
p.m. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzleloader that
had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the
barrel when the gunpowder ignited.
NOMINEE No. 8: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario] A man cleaning a bird feeder
on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb
slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on
a wheeled chair when the accident occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of
the Peel Regional police. "It appears the chair moved and he went over the
balcony," Honer said.
AND FINALLY: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette] Two local men were seriously
injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near
Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday morning. Woodruff County
deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday.
Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock are
listed in serious condition at Baptist Medical Center. The accident occurred
as the two men were returning to Des Arc after a frog-gigging trip. On an
overcast Sunday night, Poole's pick-up truck's headlights malfunctioned. The
two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older model truck had
burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the
22 caliber bullet from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to
the steering wheel column. After inserting the bullet, the headlights again
began to operate properly and the two men proceeded toward the White River
bridge. After traveling about 20 miles and just before crossing the river,
the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right
testicle. The vehicle swerved sharply right exiting the pavement and
striking a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions fro! m the
accident, but will require surgery to repair the other wound. Wallis
sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we
weren't on
that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off or we might both be dead"
stated Wallis. "I've been a trooper for ten years in this part of the world,
but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how
this accident happened, " said Snyder. Upon being notified of the wreck,
Lavinia, Poole's wife, asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did
anyone get them from the truck. (Way to go, Lavinia).
