Darwin Awards

[Revoltion]

Heathen swine.

Get off the Conrad meds.

[Skirata]

Get off the Conrad meds.

But it feels so good.

[Daemonn]

No im not new to OTD, just thought the people here would be more intelligent than to derail a topic immediately after its first post.

[Rodri]

But it's all Darwinism. It's just survival of the fittest.

this one on the end is your first post.

[Mistress Kitti]

(April 2010, Romania) A thirty-five-year-old man from Braila was only trying to fix a broken soil tamper, a tool his father had made himself and used for decades. The metal handle of this family heirloom had rusted loose and our man was trying to weld it back into position, but unfortunately he was welding the metal rod onto an antique WWII cannon shell.

Yes, the family had been banging a cannon shell against the garden dirt for two generations!
Spec ial ists from the Bucharest ISU (General Institute for Emergency Situations) stated that the first weld had been made in a harmless position, but the second weld was made in exactly the wrong spot. The heat triggered the shell to explode, mortally wounding the man. In his defense, he was sure the projectile was harmless because his father had used it to compact earth for almost 40 years. If one generation doesn't get it right, the next does

[D7DN3RD]

(September 2010, Wales, UK) A dear old fellow, 81 and counting, almost shuffled off this mortal coil by rescuing a floating rubbish bin that was as large as his little dinghy! Adrift and wallowing in the ocean, tethered to an enormous rubber bin, without a lifejacket, the man was headed for nowhere. Fortunately, his dire situation was noted by the Coast Guard, who rescued him and then made a second trip to tow the dinghy and rubbish bin to shore.

Look at the picture, how funny is that?

This 81-year-old angel is not a winner, only a near miss. And he is an environmental hero! If things had turned out differently, well, there are worse ways to go. Protecting the planet *is* worth dying for.

A spokesperson said, "Everyone at the Moelfre lifeboat station wishes the gentleman a speedy recovery."

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Submitted by: zebrafinch
Reference: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11268644