Darwin Awards

Rumple Foreskin

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This is a "just because" thread. Got this Darwin Awards list today. It occured to me that some of the Literotica trolls may have second jobs.

Feel free to add others, make rude, lewd comments, or just ignore all this.

Rumple Foreskin :cool:

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Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the DARWIN AWARDS are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us. Here then, are the glorious winners:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended
victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber
James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down
the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.... And
now, the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car
during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman
had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus
driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be
transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit
his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered
everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the
mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very
excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies The deception wasn't discovered
for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious
head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received
the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how
close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the
counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer,
the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which
the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and
fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he
got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives
you money, is a crime committed?)

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided
that he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab
some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his
head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be
thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window
was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man
grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the
woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher.
Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the
car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car
and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes,
officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and
demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't
open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion
rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man,
frustrated, walked away.

******A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER*****

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked
on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police
arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor
home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's
sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press
charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
 
ROFLMFAO!!!!!
4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus
driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be
transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit
his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered
everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the
mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very
excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies The deception wasn't discovered
for 3 days.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS ONE.
 
vella_ms said:
ROFLMFAO!!!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS ONE.
Great minds think alike, V-child. That's my favorite. Can't you just imagine the scene when the bus showed up at its destination? :D

Rumple Foreskin :cool:
 
Rumple Foreskin said:
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked
on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police
arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor
home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's
sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press
charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

Okay the rest are good, but this one just might be the best and should be titled Justice! :devil:

Cat
 
Rumple Foreskin said:
It occured to me that some of the Literotica trolls may have second jobs.

Rumple Foreskin :cool:

And in this statement you are not? What did you call me? :p :kiss:
 
About that insurance company in example #2:

I rather imagine that company has stopped investigating their client’s insurance claims digitally.

You think?
 
Hi Rumple,

I'm sure you're aware of these, as an art form.

A bit like Mr. Frey's 'nonfiction' rehab accounts.

From an authorial point of view, what are the mechanics of creating such vignettes? Structurally, for character, it requires a 'dumb fuck'; in terms of plot, he undoes himself. Here's one requirement: the reader must be drawn into a superior position; unlike some humor stories, the reader must NOT say, 'that's me!', but rather, 'what a dumb fuck!'

Should we, at Lit., have a prize for the first person who can create one that makes the official 'Darwin Awards.'?
 
7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided
that he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab
some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his
head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be
thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window
was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

This one is actually my favorite. Just because I can picture it so clearly.
 
rgraham666 said:
This person can't win the Award.

But what he did is so Goddamned funny he should at least get a special mention. :D

I saw this one in the local news and just had to laugh. How anyone in this day and age can be so stupid as to pick up unexpended rounds astounds me.

Yes I do have quite an extensive collection of rounds, but all of them are what is called expended. (The centers of my collection are an older British 37mm solid projectile with base and a WWII 88mm.)

Cat
 
OK - THIS one from jammies link made me laugh out loud.

Juice Me Up!
2005 Personal Account
(18 August 2005, Florida) My cousin is a paramedic in Tampa who related the following story to me. Thomas is a 28 year old brand-spanking-new paramedic student. Today was his first day in the medic lab, and he marked this occasion by taking the defibrillator paddles, placing them on his chest and shouting, "Juice me up!"

Ding Dong Paramedic student #2 took him at his word, charging up the paddles and shocking Thomas at 360 joules. Thomas took all of six steps before collapsing and going into full cardiac arrest. His fellow classmates began CPR until the real paramedics arrived three minutes later. They defibrillated Thomas once again at 360J, converting him into a normal sinus rhythm and saving his life. He was intubated, given one round of epi and brought as a post-code to the emergency room where I work. With the hopes that Thomas did not sustain any brain damage from hypoxia, or ischemia to his heart, he should have a full recovery. I worked on Thomas for four hours tonight, eventually taking him to intensive care just before I left.

Thomas currently is a volunteer firefighter for Hillsborough County with aspirations of being hired as a Paramedic/Firefighter. In true EMS spirit, he has been given the nicknames Sparky, AC/DC, and Joules, although his career in EMS is uncertain. He broke 2 golden rules:

1) If you don't know what it is, don't touch it.

2) If you know what it is, don't kill anyone with it.

The student that charged the defibrillator stayed after class to write, "I will not electrocute my classmates" 100 times on the board.

Thank God for paramedics. And God, please protect children, fools and paramedic students.

:cathappy:
 
sweetsubsarahh said:
OK - THIS one from jammies link made me laugh out loud.

Juice Me Up!
2005 Personal Account
(18 August 2005, Florida) My cousin is a paramedic in Tampa who related the following story to me. Thomas is a 28 year old brand-spanking-new paramedic student. Today was his first day in the medic lab, and he marked this occasion by taking the defibrillator paddles, placing them on his chest and shouting, "Juice me up!"

Ding Dong Paramedic student #2 took him at his word, charging up the paddles and shocking Thomas at 360 joules. Thomas took all of six steps before collapsing and going into full cardiac arrest. His fellow classmates began CPR until the real paramedics arrived three minutes later. They defibrillated Thomas once again at 360J, converting him into a normal sinus rhythm and saving his life. He was intubated, given one round of epi and brought as a post-code to the emergency room where I work. With the hopes that Thomas did not sustain any brain damage from hypoxia, or ischemia to his heart, he should have a full recovery. I worked on Thomas for four hours tonight, eventually taking him to intensive care just before I left.

Thomas currently is a volunteer firefighter for Hillsborough County with aspirations of being hired as a Paramedic/Firefighter. In true EMS spirit, he has been given the nicknames Sparky, AC/DC, and Joules, although his career in EMS is uncertain. He broke 2 golden rules:

1) If you don't know what it is, don't touch it.

2) If you know what it is, don't kill anyone with it.

The student that charged the defibrillator stayed after class to write, "I will not electrocute my classmates" 100 times on the board.

Thank God for paramedics. And God, please protect children, fools and paramedic students.

:cathappy:


Bwahahahahaha

I just printed this out to bring into work with me tomorrow. Thanks.

Cat
 
What higher species?

Yeah, I heard one a few years ago about a man who was attempting to hijack a car from some lady. He had brought a loaded shotgun with him but she locked herself in her car. He decided to bash the window in with the butt of the gun and, well, you can probably guess what happened. BANG!

I heard another one about a man who dropped his keys through a drainage grate full of water. He somehow squeezed his head and a shoulder through the bars in order to reach the keys and consequently got stuck and drowned.

Man, I'm so glad that humans are so intelligent! Thanks for these interesting tidbits.

-Sara
 
SykoSara said:
Yeah, I heard one a few years ago about a man who was attempting to hijack a car from some lady. He had brought a loaded shotgun with him but she locked herself in her car. He decided to bash the window in with the butt of the gun and, well, you can probably guess what happened. BANG!

I heard another one about a man who dropped his keys through a drainage grate full of water. He somehow squeezed his head and a shoulder through the bars in order to reach the keys and consequently got stuck and drowned.

Man, I'm so glad that humans are so intelligent! Thanks for these interesting tidbits.

-Sara

Hello Sarah!

Welcome to the AH!

(I love the shotgun one.)

:cathappy:
 
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