The Latest Future Candidate for the Darwin Award

[jazzcyclist]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/1 ... 85890.html

[Jack Slocombe]

Stupid, fat and ugly is a bad combo. Also a little mentallly challenged or a bit strung out.

[AthleticsInBritain]

The polar bears seem a bit bemused by the whole thing to be honest.

I don't blame the animals one bit if some idiot decides to jump in. Although it's quite funny at my local zoo watching the lions chase bicycle riders along the edge of their enclosure. I think the keepers do it to give 'em a bit of exercise.

If memory serves we had a schizophrenic jump in the lion enclosure at London zoo to try and recreate Daniel being fed to the lions but I can't remember if he got ate or not.

[tandfman]

Don't you actually have to die in order to be a candidate for the Darwin Award?

[jazzcyclist]

I wonder what was going through the bear's mind as this nutjob approached it.

[Pego]

I wonder what was going through the bear's mind as this nutjob approached it.

"What a nice, fat, juicy seal for my lunch today, yummy."

[bad hammy]

Don't you actually have to die in order to be a candidate for the Darwin Award?

Technically yes. However maybe it should be a multi-category award ceremony, like the Oscars. This woman can enter the "I'm dumber than dirt and did something even dumber than that and somehow managed to survive anyways thanks to the assistance of folks with IQs that have to be at least 10 times my minuscule IQ" category.

[Marlow]

I pray that her mind was fried on drugs . . .

[mump boy]

Don't you actually have to die in order to be a candidate for the Darwin Award?

Technically yes. However maybe it should be a multi-category award ceremony, like the Oscars. This woman can enter the "I'm dumber than dirt and did something even dumber than that and somehow managed to survive anyways thanks to the assistance of folks with IQs that have to be at least 10 times my minuscule IQ" category.

my guess is this has nothing to do with dumb and more to do with some kind of psychiatric condition

[DrJay]

I wonder what was going through the bear's mind as this nutjob approached it.

1. Confusion.
2. Amusement.
3. Bewilderment.
4. "She's in over her head."
5. "Seein' things...got to stop smokin' so much weed."

[tandfman]

Is it possible that this woman was not aware that bears are dangerous animals? We certainly don't teach that very well to small children, who grow up cuddling teddy bears. Perhaps this woman knew that lions and tigers were dangerous carnivores, but thought that polar bears are just cute.

[Marlow]

thought that polar bears are just cute.

I think I've read that it's second only to the Cape Buffalo for unprovoked violence.

[mike renfro]

thought that polar bears are just cute.

I think I've read that it's second only to the Cape Buffalo for unprovoked violence.

And, the males at least, eat their young. At least according to an account I read of a group who had done one of those vehicle tours in the tundra. They were watching a mother herd her cubs past the vehicle, and got too close to some young males. She manged to save one of the cubs, but the other was lunch.

[gh]

I don't pay too much attention to the Darwin Awards (particularly since every year I get them from somebody saying, the 200[current year] Darwin Awards, and it's the same bit of internet doggerel I've been receiving since the mid-90s, but..... I'm not sure I recall it ever being a woman before.

I thought testosterone was usually the guilty chemical.

[tandfman]

Don't you actually have to die in order to be a candidate for the Darwin Award?

Technically yes. However maybe it should be a multi-category award ceremony, like the Oscars. This woman can enter the "I'm dumber than dirt and did something even dumber than that and somehow managed to survive anyways thanks to the assistance of folks with IQs that have to be at least 10 times my minuscule IQ" category.

Here's another candidate for the still-living category:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ghter.html

[jazzcyclist]

Another great day for PETA:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/0 ... 10598.html

[Rye Catcher]

To bad the idiot survived.

[guru]

A new contender emerges.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/ ... 01/2170411

[Daisy]

And the blow torch method doesn't even work.

[tandfman]

Sad to say, we have an early candidate for the 2011 Darwin Award.

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local% ... -by-train-

18-year old girl goes jogging on railroad tracks wearing a headset and listening to music so loud that she cannot hear a train's warning horn.

[PCSExponent]

Extremely sad, and extremely stupid. Even w/o an iPod, who the hell runs on railroad tracks? Seems like not everyone reads The Thorn Birds...

[lonewolf]

My heart goes out to her family and friends. Having raised two daughters, both of whom turned out great despite occasional lapses of judgment during their teen years, I invite others to join me in refusing to speculate on the reasons contributing to this tragic incident.

[gm]

And another...
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/201 ... agedy.html

[tandfman]

This one, strictly speaking, is not a candidate for the Darwin Award, since tje guy didn't die, and probably was not in real danger of dying. But putting a gun in the waistband of your pants, rather than in a proper holster, is not a very clever thing to do and can lead to painful unintended consequences.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08 ... oting.html

[PCSExponent]

Does this belong in here? I know there was some thread compiling these cases, too...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/1 ... 24933.html

[Daisy]

Does this belong in here?

Definitely!

[jeremyp]

This one, strictly speaking, is not a candidate for the Darwin Award, since tje guy didn't die, and probably was not in real danger of dying. But putting a gun in the waistband of your pants, rather than in a proper holster, is not a very clever thing to do and can lead to painful unintended consequences.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08 ... oting.html

Well if the gun was half cocked........

[tandfman]

This one, strictly speaking, is not a candidate for the Darwin Award, since tje guy didn't die, and probably was not in real danger of dying. But putting a gun in the waistband of your pants, rather than in a proper holster, is not a very clever thing to do and can lead to painful unintended consequences.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08 ... oting.html

Well if the gun was half cocked........

[jazzcyclist]

But putting a gun in the waistband of your pants, rather than in a proper holster, is not a very clever thing to do and can lead to painful unintended consequences.

This is the same thing that happened to Plaxico Burress, but lucky for him the bullet didn't hit his penis nor another patron at the nightclub.

[tandfman]

Here's one. (Not for the squeamish--it's a video of a really good Darwin Award candidate demonstrating that the wire above an electrified train is not intended as a hand rail.)

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80655924/

[Conor Dary]

That is assuming the guy is not from some rural area where electricity is a bit rare or nonexistent. I suspect something like this happens fairly regularly, whatever city this is. Otherwise why would anyone be taping the scene?

Pretty horrible.

[lonewolf]

Now, THAT is sobering.

[DrJay]

Maybe off the mark, but could it have been a suicide? He was the only one up there and it looks like other people kept talking to him but not climbing up.

[Conor Dary]

Maybe off the mark, but could it have been a suicide? He was the only one up there and it looks like other people kept talking to him but not climbing up.

I hadn't thought of that. The two guys on the side of the train do appear to be talking to the fellow. That might explain why someone was taping it and no one else trying to climb up.

[Conor Dary]

Here is another link. Apparently it was suicide.

'One man in India Blames everyone standing on the roof of an express train, he demands something and blames them he will hold the High Voltage Electric Wire Running over the Train if his demand will not be accepted. Actually he was travelling in the Mahananda Express, en route from Delhi to Alipurduar. He had embarked upon the train from Aligarh.In his Procrastination he holds the wire and within fraction of second the High voltage passes his body and he dies with a huge sparks and fire. It is a worrying thing that people started using these kind of dangerous thing as a suicide medium. '

http://www.meetwiki.org/2009/05/electri ... re-is.html