A pair of Darwin award candidates

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:24 am

While not "technically" eligible for the coveted Darwin Award, I believe they at least deserve honorable mention.

Candidate 1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... alkshow_dc

Candidate 2
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... nailgun_dc

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:28 am

Ahaha!

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:46 am

hehe

i herd about the nail gun one on monday
what dumb asses

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:23 pm

#1 wins the prize. "Don't you call me violent. That makes me angry and... uh... vi... DAMN! NOW YOU DIE!"

Deadmeat · Post by **Deadmeat** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:27 pm

The Aussie's damn lucky it wasn't a framing nailer.

bash · Post by **bash** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:30 pm

I liked the news story about the Mason's initiation where the old coot got his two guns confused and instead of *scaring* the new initiate he blew his brains out. Woohoo. Good fun.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/200 ... -4114r.htm

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:14 pm

That happened a couple of miles from here. The second death from a Masonic ritual in 250 years, and it wasn't even a sanctioned ritual.

Made front page of Newsday LI today. Here's the online version of the article: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longi ... ge-big-pix

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:58 pm

Cecil then struck his wife, fetched a handgun and fired a shot into the bed's headboard near Teri to show that he did not like his wife calling him a violent partner,

Um....

I think only the nail gun wins the prize.. because the whole point of the Darwin award is that you take *yourself* out of the gene pool, not someone else by shooting them.

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:04 pm

I thought smoking marijuana was supposed to make you relax?

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:45 pm

No, THIS is a prime example of stupidity.

Sad thing is, I could drive to where that wreck happened in under half an hour.

bash · Post by **bash** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:09 pm

I smell video game lawsuit in that one. What a tragedy.

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:26 pm

Yep. Probably GTA because making cars airborne is that whole game!

(ooh, new smiley)

but yeh that first one almost made me laugh!

HaAGen DaZS · Post by **HaAGen DaZS** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:39 am

Royal Melbourne Hospital neurosurgeons removed the nail in a delicate four-hour operation even though Shorten, who was expected to make a full recovery, had offered to take the nail out with a pair of pliers.

thats what you call a real man! fundmentally daft, BUT! simple and affective!

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:08 am

I was stationed at NAS Millington for a while. That area is pretty rural. A lot of cotton fields.

Poozilla · Post by **Poozilla** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:54 am

When? I was there in 1984!

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:04 pm

the 2nd guy is my hero. Offered to pull it out with a pair of pliers, that's excellent.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:26 pm

if he uses a nailgun, he'd probabaly had to pull out nails outof his flesh with pliers before.

i remember a story from a friend (matt) when he was working in an apulstery place. he'd shot himself through the finger with a big staplegun (through = missed the bone, but staple sticking out other side of finger).

he goes upto his boss and says "uuuuh help

" the boss casually goes and grabs pliers from the wall, while another guy outof nowhere grabs matt around the shoulders/arms from behind and pins him down on a table.
the staple is eased out with matt screaming.

i just thought it was so funny how the guys grabbed him so quickly and straight away pinned him to the table and took the staple out. they had done it a hundred times before.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:42 am

Poozilla wrote:When? I was there in 1984!

August '87 to Feb '88

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:36 am

I used to staple myself intentionally through the palms of my hands 12-13 years ago with just a normal stapler. Course I also had some other nasty habits such as slicing my arms on purpose. Used to think it was pain tolerance testing but mostly punishment for hating myself.....

Yeah, I was a pretty disturbed youth, thank goodness I survived all that

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:22 am

there's nothing wrong with slicing your arms. minor lacerations are the best form of pain there is. I love running on a trail and sprinting through a briar patch and getting so scratched blood just streams down my legs. It actually feels really good.

Now staples, on the other hand... I've been tempted to do that (to other people) but never have

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:29 am

Scorch wrote:there's nothing wrong with slicing your arms. minor lacerations are the best form of pain there is. I love running on a trail and sprinting through a briar patch and getting so scratched blood just streams down my legs. It actually feels really good.

Sorry to bust your bubble but the comparison is invalid. When you're on runner's high, the endorphin release from small cuts is huge, not to mention the extra circulation makes scratches that would gum over in a few seconds run like that and look worse than they are.

Take a knife to your calves and see the difference, a sane person will have difficulty forcing the blade through the skin, let alone making themselves bleed badly.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:37 am

humor, buddy, humor.

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:42 am

tyranny i'm amazed that you told us that. mostly SIs are very private.

someone showed me this stupid article in some teen magazine that was making out that SI is just for attention whores. made me so ★■◆●ing angry.

A pair of Darwin award candidates

A pair of Darwin award candidates

stupid people...

Yeah?

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