Look at These Stupid People . . .

My Mom sent this to me today.Pretty messed up stuff, dang some people just don\'t think about what they are doing sometimes.

At long last! What we wait for all year This year\'s Darwin Awards 2000
much, much better than last year. My choice changes every time I read
over the nominees. Hard to believe, but another year has passed (For
those who don\'t know about it, the Darwin Awards are awarded every year
to the person(s) who died in the stupidest way, thereby removing
themselves from the gene pool...)

The 2000 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, Michigan, was killed in March 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 rumbling 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 December in Newton, N.C. Awakening
to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the
phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which discharged
when he drew 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 explaining the
strength of the building\'s windows to visiting law students. Hoy
previously had conducted demonstration of window strength according to
police reports. Peter Lawyers, 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 room with no
ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by
his own gas. There was no mark on his body but an autopsy showed large
amounts of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily
of beans and cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the
right combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep
from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he
been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn\'t have been
fatal.  But the man was shut up in his near-airtight bedroom. 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: ["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 before having his
sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in
his cell and 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, sheriff\'s
investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents\' rural
Dunkirk home about 11:30 p.m. 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 gunpowder ignited.

NOMINEE No. 8: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario] A man cleaning a bird
feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartmentin this Toronto suburb
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," Honer said.

AND FINALLY - NOMINEE No. 9:

[Arkansas Democrat Gazette] Two local men were seriously injured when
their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on
State Highway 38 early Monday morning. 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 are
listed in serious condition at Baptist Medical Center. The accident
occurred as the two men were returning to Des Arc after a frog-gigging
trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole\'s pickup truck headlights
malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the
older model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not
available, Wallis noticed that the.22 caliber bullet from his pistol fit
perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering wheel column. After
inserting the bullet, the headlights again began to operate properly and
the two men proceeded toward the White River bridge. After traveling
about 20 miles and just before crossing the river,the bullet apparently
overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right testicle.  The
vehicle swerved sharply right exiting the pavement and striking a tree.
Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident, but will
require surgery to repair the other wound. Wallis sustained a broken
clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren\'t on that
bridge when Thurston shot his balls off or we might both be dead" stated Wallis.

"I\'ve been a trooper for ten years in this part of the
world, but this is a first for me. I can\'t believe that those two would
admit how this accident happened," said Snyder. Upon being notified of
the wreck, Lavinia, Poole\'s wife, asked how many frogs the boys had
caught and did anyone get them from the truck. (Way to go, Lavinia

The guy who picked up the gun instead of the phone definatly wins...

yeah im with the one on this. thats the most retarded thing ive ever heard. putting a gun right next to the phone by your bed? man thats just asking for it.

i don\'t know the guy who killed himself by farting in his sleep looks like a winner to me

or what about the guy that was under the truck when they were driving down the highway to see if he could find what was making a noise and got caught in the drivesaft  

dang some people

[nO-One]

Hah hah hah ppl\'s stupidity never seeses to amaze me.
And I should probly keep an open window when I sleep.Just to be sure.

they did die for a reason though....
to entertain us!!!!
I\'d like a minute of silence for these brave souls!!LOL

NO IT\'S DEFINITELY THE LAST ONE FROM ARKANSAS WHO SHOT HIMSELF IN THE NUTS

That\'s great!  I\'m from Arkansas, ahaha

ahaha
Frog-gigging trip


Sublime you got a link for that?

no i don\'t my mom emailed it to me and my aunt sent it to her

sorry - i will see if i can find one though

ok i found it - didn\'t take to long - seems these Darwin Awards are quite the popular thing

http://www.darwinawards.com - this is the officail site there were many others whe i searched  

the guy who had a lighter in a gun hes defiatley the dumbest out of everyone

I\'m going to go with the guy that jumped through the window because he didn\'t think it would brake. How retarded.

LOL!!!! well the phone one with The window one second.

My god... some people...

A college student dressed up as Dracula for Halloween. As a finishing touch, he put a pine board down the front of his shirt, so he could "realistically" stick a knife into the board and pretend he was transfixed with a killing stake. He didn\'t consider the strength of the thin pine board when he tapped the knife in with a hammer. Propelled by the force of the hammer, the sharp knife tip split the soft pine and buried itself in his heart. He staggered from his dorm room into the party, gasping, "I really did it!" before succumbing before horrified friends.

my god what is this??? joke?

My award goes to... The farting man. I mean, it\'s unbelievable! And how embarrassing! To die at your own gas?

Sorry I can\'t stop even if this isn\'t such a funny thing. Man dying and all... but he won\'t know I laughed at him...