They will do it everytime!

[Judy Harder]

Just to funny but these folks really were stupid enough to do this stuff!  At least they are out of the gene pool.
 

 
These annual honors are given to the persons who did the human gene pool
the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.

You may recall that last year's winner was killed by a Coke machine that toppled over on him
as he was trying to tip a free soda out.

This year's winner was a genuine Rocket Scientist...no jive!
Read on...and remember that each and every one of these is a true story.

The nominees were:
Semifinalist #1

A young Canadian man, searching for a way of getting drunk cheaply because he had no money with which to buy alcohol, mixedgasoline with milk. Not surprisingly, this concoction made him ill, andhe vomited into the fireplace in his house. The resulting explosion andfire burned his house down, killing both he and his sister.

Semifinalist #2

Three Brazilian men were in a light aircraft at low altitudewhen another plane approached. It appears that they decided to moon theoccupants of the other plane, but lost control of their own aircraft andcrashed. They were all found dead in the wreckage with their pantsaround their ankles.

Semifinalist #3

A 22-year-old Virginia man was found dead after he tried to use octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle. FairfaxCounty police said Eric Barcia, a fast-food worker, taped a bunch ofthese straps together, wrapped an end around one foot, anchored theother end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped and hit thepavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigatorsthink Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. "The length ofthe cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between thetrestle and the concrete," Carmichael said. Police say the apparentcause of death was "Major trauma."

Semifinalist #4

A man in Alabama died from numerous rattlesnake bites. He and afriend had been playing a game of catch, using the rattlesnake as aball. The friend - no doubt a future Darwin Awards candidate - was hospitalized but lived.

Semifinalist #5

Employees in a warehouse in west Texas noticed the smell of agas leak. Management ordered people to evacuate the building,extinguishing all potential sources of ignition; lights, power, etc.After the building had been evacuated, two technicians from the gascompany were dispatched. Upon entering the building, they found they haddifficulty navigating in the dark. To their frustration, none of thelights worked. Witnesses later described seeing one of the techniciansreaching into his pocket and retrieving an object that resembled acigarette lighter. Upon operation of the lighter-like object, the gasin the warehouse exploded, sending pieces of it up to three miles away.Nothing was found of the technicians, but the lighter was virtuallyuntouched by the explosion. The technician suspected of causing theblast had never been thought of as ''especially bright'' by his peers.


And now the winner of this year's Darwin Award; as always,
awarded posthumously;

THE 2011 WINNER!

Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal
embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a
curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was
a car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene.

Police investigators finally pieced together the mystery. An
amateur rocket scientist had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit (Jet
Assisted Take Off...actually a solid-fuel rocket) that is used to give
heavy military transport planes an extra 'push' for taking off from
short airfields. He had driven his 1967 Chevy Impala into the desert and
found a long, straight stretch of road. He attached the JATO unit to the
car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO.

The facts that could be determined are that the operator of the
Impala hit the JATO ignition at a distance of about three miles from the
crash site. This was established by the scorched and melted asphalt at
that location.

The JATO, if operating properly, would have reached maximum
thrust within five seconds, causing the Chevy to reach speeds well in
excess of 350 mph and continuing at full power for an additional 20-25
seconds.

The driver, and soon-to-be pilot, would have experienced
G-forces usually reserved for dog fighting F-14 jocks under full
afterburners, causing him to become irrelevant for the remainder of the
event.
However, the automobile remained on the straight highway for
about 2.5 miles (15-20 seconds) before the driver applied and completely
melted the brakes, blowing the tires and leaving thick rubber marks on
the road surface, then becoming airborne for 1.4 miles and impacting the
cliff face at a height of 125 feet, leaving a blackened crater 3 feet
deep in the rock. Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable.

Epilogue: It has been calculated that this moron attained a
ground speed of approximately 420-mph, though much of his voyage was not
actually on the ground.

Really.....we can't make this stuff up.
+++++++++++++++

 

[Diane Amberg]

And they were all males!

[oldfart]

where did you find this stuff , the last one was the hardest one to believe

[Judy Harder]

a friend e-mailed me the item. I trust him, he doesn't believe in much but the
gospel and will always look up odd facts...........and the like.
You know, there are stupid people all over the place.........and even smart people, espeically smart ones
are known to be stupid when they get out of the classroom.
Lot of book smarts, but NO horse sense!