"2003"

 

Hard to believe, but another year has passed and we once again have the

Darwin Award nominees. The Darwin is awarded every year to the person who

died (or almost died) in the stupidest way.

 

 

 

This year's nominees are:

 

Nominee No. 1:

 

[san Jose Mercury News]: An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a

club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself

to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

 

 

>> > Nominee No. 2:

[Kalamazoo Gazette]: James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, Mich., was

killed as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm type

truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns

hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling

noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the other man

found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."

 

 

>> > Nominee No. 3:

 

[Hickory Daily Record]: Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself

to death in Newton, NC Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone

beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed a Smith & Wesson 38

Special, which discharged when he put it to his ear.

 

 

>> > Nominee No. 4:

[uPI, Toronto]: Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows

in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder

and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy,39,

fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday

evening as he was demonstrating the strength of the building's windows to

visiting law students. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden

Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the

best and brightest" members of the 200-man association.

>>

 

>> > Nominee No. 5:

[bloomberg News Service]: A terrible diet and a room with no

ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his

own gas.An autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system. His

diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage. It was just the right

combination of foods, and the man died in his sleep from breathing the

poisonous cloud hanging over his bed. According to the article, "He was a

big man with a huge capacity for creating this deadly gas." Three of the

rescuers got sick and one was hospitalized.

 

 

>> > Nominee No. 6:

[The News of the Weird]: Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird

posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's

electric chair on a murder conviction, but his sentence had just been

reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell

attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

 

 

>> > Nominee No. 7:

[The Indianapolis Star]: A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal

explosion in Dunkirk, Indiana. A Jay County man using a cigarette lighter

to check the barrel of a muzzle loader was killed Monday night when the

weapon discharged in his face. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his

parents' home about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a

54-caliber muzzle loader that had not been firing properly. He was using

the lighter to look into the barrel when the gun powder ignited.

 

>> > Nominee No. 8:

[Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario]: A man cleaning a bird feeder on the

balcony of his condominium apartment slipped and fell 23 stories to his

death. Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheeled chair when the

accident occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of the Peel Regional

Police. "It appears the chair moved and he went over the balcony."

 

 

>> > Finally, Nominee No. 9, The Winner!!!:

[Arkansas Democrat Gazette]: Two local men were injured when their pickup

truck left the road and struck a tree on State Highway 38 early

Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly

after midnight Monday.

Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock

were returning to Des Arc after a frog gigging trip. When the headlights

malfunctioned, the two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older

model truck had burned out. A replacement fuse was not available, but

Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullet from his pistol fit perfectly

into the fuse box. Upon inserting the bullet the headlights again began

to operate properly and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the

White River Bridge.

After traveling approximately twenty miles the bullet apparently

overheated, discharged, and struck Poole in the right testicle. The

vehicle swerved sharply right, exited the pavement and struck a tree.

Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident, but will

require surgery to repair the testicle. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle

and was treated and released. Upon being notified of the wreck,

Poole's wife asked how many frogs the boys had caught, and did anyone get

them from the truck?

 

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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol ROFLMAO!!!!!!!! :lol :lol

 

Damn Death's not funny but... God how in the hell do you die like that. How does your obit look? :lol :lol

Oh my.....