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The Darwin Awards


Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of
water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to
retrieve his car keys.


Seventh Place

A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who 'totally zoned when he
ran,' accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.



Sixth Place

While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection
from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom! When
it t collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach
used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach
him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to
free him. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.


Fifth Place

Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a
bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long
flashlight he had placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed
into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
Fourth Place
Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends
who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his
mouth and pull the trigger.


Third Place

After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front
door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the
store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was
standing at the counter. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber
announced a hold-up! and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol.
The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, and several customers
also drew their guns and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the
scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended
cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot
wounds. Ballistics identified rou nds from 7 different weapons. No one
else was hurt.


HONOURABLE MENTION


Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at
2 A.M. so they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window
to see what would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window
was closed.


RUNNER UP


Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them
said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in
the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least
10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival
at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a
bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and
pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable, lay near by.
They secured
one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other ! ;to the bridge.
His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot
off at the ankle.. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water
and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never
located.


AND THE WINNER IS...

Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated
elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries,
figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the
ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded.
The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr.
Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the
elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him.
It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves... 'Shit
happens'


IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPORTANT TO THANK THESE PEOPLE FOR REMOVING THEMSELVES
FROM THE GENE POOL

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Hey, Lehman Brothers is up for sale on Ebay. Only $255 as of 4:30 p.m. PST.
Hitler gets a margin call
(probably good if you don't know German)

I love old musicals. even bad ones.

Something you've always needed to know : : :


It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships.
But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem.
The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which
rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called a Monkey.
But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it.
The solution to the rusting problem was to make Brass Monkeys.

Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey.
Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
And all this time, you thought that was a vulgar expression, didn't you?
A man was riding his Harley along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, the Lord
said, "Because you have TRIED to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish.'



The biker pulled over and said, 'Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I want.'



The Lord said, 'Your request is materialistic, think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required to
reach the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! It will nearly exhaust several natural resources. I can do it, but it is hard
for me to justify your desire for worldly things.



Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind.'



The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said, 'Lord, I wish that I, and all men, could understand our wives and
girlfriends; I want to know how she feels inside, what she's thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when she
says nothing's wrong, and how I can make a woman truly happy.'



The Lord replied, 'You want two lanes or four on that bridge?
Check it!

Buy my Shitpile, Henry!

http://www.buymyshitpile.com/

Now, da sheeple have a site where they can sell THEIR bad assets to the government...

"With our economy in crisis, the US Government is scrambling to rescue our banks by purchasing their "distressed assets", i.e., assets that no one else wants to buy from them. We figured that instead of protesting this plan, we'd give regular Americans the same opportunity to sell their bad assets to the government. We need your help and you need the Government's help!"
too funny, I'm gonna list the hubbies f&*king Oldsmobile Cutlass that's been sitting out front for the last three years. Mind, it runs, he would just rather drive my Kia. With gas prices the way they are I guess I can't bitch too much. I tell him the next time someone walks up the drive and asks me if I want to sell the damn thing, I'm gonna.
buy MY shitpile! That was good for a lot of laughs and I had to stop looking into it after 7 pages of shit.

Mary, ya oughta put the Olds on eBay for some whacko european to buy. Just let the buyer take care of all shipping etc. arrangements. Still a lot of people here willing to buy that kind of car no matter what condition it's in. You probably won't be able to sell it over there but here, heck, it would be gone in a matter of hours. Did you know Istanbul is full of old and very well kept US cars ?? I saw a chevy, the turquoise blue model down there....the thing looked like it did in its original state when it was new. So I goes up and asks the guy if I can see under the hood. He gladly pops the hood and WOW ! The real beauty was under the hood. The rest was very nice but that original motor !! In Istanbul, Turkey. Talk about far out.
I get non stop offers from people in the park or those just driving through. He won't sell, he swears he's gonna give me back my car and start driving it. He lies, (chuckle).

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