Here is the glorious Winner:


1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And now, the Honorable Mentions:


2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company, expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

5. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer: $15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

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

7. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

OK here's a question, which is the odd one out & why?

Aren't they making a film about The Darwin Awards starring Whino Ryder?

Anyways, top stuff. Good to see that someone is keeping track of how the gene pool is being cleansed.

I have a book about these from years ago, my favourite being the guy who tied wheather baloons to his deck chair so he could spy on his neighbours, he was spotted at 10,000 feet by a very confused pilot.

got to love the darwin awards, make me feel just a little bit smarter

Someone I once knew felt wrong laughing at other people's deaths. When i tried to explain it was alright as they were improving humanity, he walked away. Some people, eh?

I had always thought the person needed to die to satisfy the Darwin Awards....?

My favourite one (that I presume is 110% fiction) is when a guy got really drunk on vodka at a campfire. He then tried to put the fire out by peeing on it. The fire lit the alcohol, up his pee and into his belly and he exploded. Fantastic, but a total fabrication.

You have to die to win, but the honorable mentions go to people who are considered hopefuls for next year.

My personal favorite (which actually got it's own episode of mythbusters) was the guy in arkansas whose truck brokedown, and who was able to fix it by putting a bullet in one of the fuses. Twenty minutes later, the powder ignited and fired the bullet into his left testicle. In an interview, his friend said something along the lines of "it was a great trip til jim-bob blew his balls off"

Then there was the guy whose bean and cabbage diet combined with a nearly airtight bedroom lead to methane poisoning.

And of course, the kid who fell off a cliff while swinging on a cross that marked the spot where some kid fell off the cliff.

Oh, and there was the guy who was having car trouble, and had a friend strap him under the car so he could see it in action.

and finally, there was a man who worked at a zoo and was trying to give a suppository to a constipated elephant which had already been feed a large dose of laxatives. When the bowels finally let loose, the force sent him to the ground where his head struck hard concrete and he was knocked unconscious. He then drowned in the elephants diarrhea.

No way man, I seen it happen, it aint pretty. Damn funny though.

my favorite was hte window salesman who to demonstrate how safe the windows were flung himself at one in his office, whichfell out of the building and he plunged 20 storeys to his death