Re: [Fwd: Darwin Awards]

I find this append offensive. It has nothing to do with the topic of this forum.


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This is way off subject, but if you think the only dumb people are
your users/customers see the following........
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Oh!  Thought that you might like these:

     THE ANNUAL DARWIN AWARDS

     They have finally been released!  For those not familiar with the
Darwin Award - It's an annual honor given to the person who did the
universal human gene pool the biggest service by getting killed in the most
extraordinarily stupid way.  As always, competition this year has been keen
again. Some candidates appear to have trained their whole lives for this
event.

     DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES

     1. In September in 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.

     2.  In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally
zoned when he ran,"  according to his wife, accidentally jogged off a
200-foot-high cliff on his daily run.

     3.  Buxton, NC:  A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had
dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it.  Beachgoers said Daniel
Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been
sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday  afternoon when it
collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the
outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to
Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him.  It took
rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about
200 people looked on.  Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.

     4.  In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as
he fell face-first 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) crammed against the base of his skull as
he hit the floor.

     5.  According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20,
was stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who
was trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flakvest Berrena
was wearing.

     6. Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in Selbyville,
Del., 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.

     7. In February, according to police in Windsor, Ont., Daniel Kolta,
27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a tie
in the game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles.

     8.  In September, a 7-year-old boy fell off a 100-foot-high bluff near
Ozark, Ark., after he lost his grip swinging on a cross that marked the
spot where another person had fallen to his death in 1990.


     DARWIN AWARD HONOURABLE MENTIONS

     (1) In Guthrie, Okla., in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a
millipede with a shot from his .22-caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted
off a rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head,
fracturing his skull.

     (2) In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean
out cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a propane
torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his house.

     (3) Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, in
September, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, by a quarter-stick of
dynamite that blew up in their car.  While driving around at 2 AM, the
bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see
what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window was
closed.

     (4) Taking "Amateur Night" Too Far:  In Betulia, Colombia, an annual
festival in November includes five days of amateur bullfighting. This year,
no bull was killed, but dozens of matadors were injured, including one
gored in the head and one Bobbittized.  Said one participant, "It's just
one bull against
     [a town of] a thousand Morons."



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