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Darwin Awards Thread

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AJM8125 said:
See if this potential Darwin worthy anecdote from my youth gets a chuckle -

Two of my older brother's more intelligent friends, let's call them Mutt & Jeff because I've forgotten their real names, were low on drug money and exploring their options when Mutt had an idea. Seems Mutt's aunt had a vacation cabin in The Sierra Nevada which apparently had some high-end stereo equipment in it. They would drive to the mountains and burglarize the cabin.

Once they arrived at the cabin, Mutt tells Jeff to wait in the car and be the look out. That was the last time Mutt was seen alive. Jeff searched for Mutt but gave up when night fell and the temperature dropped into the teens. Jeff abandoned Mutt, drove back to Sacramento and told Mutt's parents, who reported him missing to the authorities.

Mutt's body was found stuck in the chimney at his Aunt's cabin. Apparently he tried breaking into the cabin by going in that way. Head first. He froze to death.
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For more information and cases see this link.
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/...eople-getting-stuck-in-chimneys-and-dying-302
 
Man, what a horrible way to die. And what an idiotic plan. Didn't even tell his buddy how he planned to enter the cabin.

Medieval sadists would be hard pressed to dream up a crueler way to kill someone and he did it to himself.
 
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Puppycow said:
Man, what a horrible way to die. And what an idiotic plan. Didn't even tell his buddy how he planned to enter the cabin.

Medieval sadists would be hard pressed to dream up a crueler way to kill someone and he did it to himself.
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Especially, if he was Claus-trophobic!

Did he die from the flue?

At the funeral, it was considered insensitive of the priest to say, "Ashes to ashes!"
 
Trebuchet said:
I'm always quite happy to see a dead raccoon. I hate those things.
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I'm not particularly fond of raccoons, but I can't say I really react seeing a dead one much one way or another.

I do, however, take considerable joy in killing blood sucking insects: mosquitoes, biting flies, no-see-ums, ticks (actually arachnids) or whatever. I suppose it's not really their fault that they have evolved to require blood to survive, but, if they come after mine, they are fair game.
 
Matthew Best said:
He self-selected by being there in the first place.
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You are getting confused and are painting yourself into a corner. Having a third party independently send you to your death whilst watching a spectacle (however much you disagree with said spectacle) is in no way self selection.
 
This fits the rules as far as I am concerned.

1. Out of gene pool - check.
2. Misapplication of judgment - check
3. Cause one's own demise - check
4. Capable of sound judgment - check
5. Event is true - check.
 
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