Real life natural selection in action!

PyroWolfPyroWolf That NS Comic Guy Join Date: 2002-04-23 Member: 503Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Humans is the craziest people~</div>Ever wonder how the theory of "Natural Selection" works into today's world?

Here are the best and the brightest of the worst and most odd deaths/personal injuries ever to befall a fellow human.

<a href="http://www.darwinawards.com" target="_blank">The Darwin Awards</a>

(Most aren't extremely graphic, though some can get just downright weird, enter if you don't mind PG-13/Semi-R situations, few to no offensive pictures or language to my knowledge... well... not TOO offensive anyway.)

The weird part is?
I found this website through TEACHERS, MULTIPLE ONES.
They love this stuff... really....

Taken from said website:

<i>Robert, 37, shot himself while explaining gun safety to his wife in Glendale, California, when he placed a .45-caliber pistol he thought was unloaded under his chin and pulled the trigger. Shovestall's wife told police that the incident occurred after her complaints about her husband's 70 guns prompted him to demonstrate their safety.

A 23-year-old bar-brawler who had been escorted out of the Turtle Club in Florida by a bouncer, sneaked back in and leaped off a staircase, aiming a kick at another man, but was killed when he landed on his head.

Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet, didn't put enough postage on a letter bomb, and it came back marked "return to sender." He opened the package and was blown away.

Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn by freeing a captive herd. Suddenly all two thousand of pigs stampeded through the gate they were opening, and trampled the hapless protesters to death.

News of the Weird reports that in September 1996 a man was crushed to death on a stairway at the Sammis Real Estate and Insurance office in Huntington, N.Y., while he was stealing the office's 600-pound safe. He apparently violated that cardinal rule of hauling massive objects: Never stand on a step lower than the one the safe is on. The safe was empty at the time of the incident.

In San Jose, California, Herman, an avid hunter, used the butt of his shotgun to bash his girlfriend's windshield during an argument. But his loaded gun accidentally discharged into his stomach, killing him and ending the argument.

"I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure."</i>


Pyro "Why did I not remember this sooner" Wolf

Comments

  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Yes, I have the book. Its a brilliant read, I urge you all to get it.
  • TzarconTzarcon Join Date: 2002-02-28 Member: 259Members
    heh, that's funny. I should buy that book.
  • Right_Behind_YouRight_Behind_You Join Date: 2002-04-23 Member: 501Members
    did you know atilla the hun died from a nosebleed? something to think about... hes the guy who took over all of asia
  • GraheimGraheim Join Date: 2002-04-02 Member: 375Members
    It's not just a book.  They give out that award every year to the person who's death most helped humanity by removing themselves from the genepool.  They keep track of all possible contestants on the web site.  See if you can find the one about the German Zookeeper.

    I'd find it for you but I'm at work and the site is blocked.
  • chalupamonkchalupamonk sky h4x0r Join Date: 2002-02-19 Member: 227Members, NS1 Playtester
    Personally, I feel that the one with the concrete block and protruding rebar(b?) on the highway overpass is by far the most horrible and darkly comic thing I've ever read.

    And RBY, it could have been a terrible nosebleed...the nosebleed to end all nosebleeds.  Perhaps someone cut off his nose.  There, see?  Technically, it could be considered by some to be a nosebleed, although it would be a lot more severe than casual nosebleeds.  But seriously, what an...idiot.  The natural reaction of any person when they notice some bodily fluid leaking out of a place it usually doesn't is to plug it up.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    err, it wasnt the nosebleed to end all nosebleeds, he had been out all night drinkin wif his buds and bumped into a wall and fell unconcious. however, if yer head is up, even a bit of blood from the nosebleed can block yer windpipe. how does dying from a nosebleed make someone stupid?
  • chalupamonkchalupamonk sky h4x0r Join Date: 2002-02-19 Member: 227Members, NS1 Playtester
    Tycho, I figured that he was conscious the entire time and for some reason was too preoccupied to either notice or care that his nose was bleeding.  In that case, you have to admit that the victim would be exceedingly stupid.  But now that you've told me the whole story, everything's making more sense.  So, did he drown in his own blood?
  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I like the one that with the guy that took his brand new car (still 90% unpaid for, on an installment plan), his golden <b>retriever</b>, and some sticks of dynamite to a frozen lake to go fishing.

    He parked alongside the lake, then lit the tnt and threw it onto the ice, hoping to make a hole he and his friends could fish through. However, his dog, who had already played this game, but minus the TNT and with a bone, ran onto the ice, picked up the fizzing stick and tried to bring it back to its master.

    The guy and his mates freaked out, and tried to shoot the dog with a shotgun from the back of the truck, but they missed and scared the dog, who ran under the truck and hid.

    The insurance didnt cover acts of stupidity or explosives, and so they ended up with no car to get back home, thousands of dollars left to pay on this burnt wreck, no dog, no fish. They didnt die, so he only deserves an Honourable Mention. But its a good one nevertheless.

    I hope I got that all right. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • chalupamonkchalupamonk sky h4x0r Join Date: 2002-02-19 Member: 227Members, NS1 Playtester
    Poor dog.  That's all I can really say, because I never care for violence against 'innocent' animals.  People are another matter.  (I'm one of those people who, in a 'survival' movie, always hopes the dog lives and doesn't care if anyone else dies.)
  • Sgt_XSgt_X Join Date: 2002-03-01 Member: 261Members
    The problem is the usualy send these ppl to hospital and the live and breed more stupidity. <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
  • Sgt_XSgt_X Join Date: 2002-03-01 Member: 261Members
    I just found a real funny one. Not only was he an idiot so was his family. First he shakes a pop machine causing it to fall and kill him. Then his family posts something that basicly says he didn't do it everyone else was negligent. I shall now take a quote from that page. It show complete stupidity and is in the same vein as the idiot part of the PHL mailbag when ppl send in error messages.

    "How does someone shake a machine without leaving fingerprints? No fingerprints were found on the machine by the police, only <b>"a partial <i>handprint</i>
    </b>"."

    need i say more.


    BTW i put in the bold and italic to point out the stupidity.
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