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Darwin Awards (Mega-Merge)

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ulukinatme;2361244; said:
Heard about this on the radio this morning. Dating website...for beautiful people only:

http://www.darwindating.com/
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http://jdgroover.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/the-2013-darwin-awards-are-out/

These are some classics, but #4 is just a Godsend to the interwebs:

"4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days."

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Bucklion said:
http://jdgroover.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/the-2013-darwin-awards-are-out/

These are some classics, but #4 is just a Godsend to the interwebs:

"4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days."

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"7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape."

I'd pay real money to see that...
 
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Bucklion said:
http://jdgroover.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/the-2013-darwin-awards-are-out/

These are some classics, but #4 is just a Godsend to the interwebs:

"4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days."

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I would party with that dude.
 
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Bucklion said:
I remember they did one of those Discovery/History channel shows about those folks that I flipped on one time...that's some crazy [Mark May], they cover themselves in poisonous snakes.
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Maybe you saw Coots himself:

Coots appeared in a National Geographic television show titled Snake Salvation about Pentecostal preachers who defy the law to use serpents as part of their religious services.
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I saw a couple episodes of that show. Pissed me off. These bozos would go out of state, acquire their venomous pets, then illegally transport them back through states that had laws against having them. (I'm guessing the states in question did not appreciate the possibility that someone might get sloppy, let the snakes free, and have their entire ecosystem corrupted by the introduction of non-indigenous predator species--ala the current situation in the FL everglades.)

I think Coots is the one who had a son in the business, too. Wonder if he's going to carry on the family tradition? (I don't suppose NatGeo stuck around long enough to actually film Mr. Coots' untimely albeit self-inflicted demise?)
 
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Men Do The Dumbest Things, According To Science

The next time you call the man in your life an "idiot," know that science -- if not compassion -- is on your side.

A new tongue-in-cheek analysis published in the typically offbeat Christmas edition of the distinguished British Medical Journal examined winners of the Darwin Awards -- a dubious prize given to those among us who have injured ourselves or even perished due to, uh, poor risk assessment skills. They found that 88.7 percent of the "winners" were male.

On the other hand, the clever person who came up with this study is himself a man -- or close: 15-year-old Ben Alexander Daniel Lendrem from Newcastle, U.K., conceived and carried out the analysis with his statistician father, Dennis Lendrem, reports The Washington Post.

The Lendrems defined idiotic risks as "senseless... where the apparent payoff is negligible or non-existent, and the outcome is often extremely negative and often final."

"According to 'male idiot theory' (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behavior, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things," explained the study authors. "In this paper we present evidence in support of this hypothesis using data on idiotic behaviors demonstrated by winners of the Darwin Award."

The team ran an analysis of 20 years of Darwin award winners and whittled down the cases to those whose deaths were independently verified were included. Awards shared by men and women (usually "overly adventurous couples," notes the study) were also left out.
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