This weeks Darwin Award winner

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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    l would like to nomonate onama for this award and maybe even a life time Darwin Award winner.....for the poor and awfull planning of obamacare (just to name one) :(|)

    Godfather.
  • jmuscatello
    jmuscatello Colorado Posts: 332
    edited February 2014
    My nomination goes to Arizona legislators trying to pass a pro-discrimination bill. I wish immediate financial loss on business owners who support it.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    A fitness model was run over by a train while filming a video ... from what I understand he was waiting to leap off the tracks at the last second to show how awesome he is ... but ended up tripping at the last second and got run over by a goddamn train.

    https://tv.yahoo.com/news/police-fitness-model-killed-train-running-tracks-233801083.html
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  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    God damn jay, that's fucken nuts bro
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    It's been all over the news here the last couple of days.

    Seemed like a really good, decent guy - but why not go through the channels to get a permit for filming, safety factors, etc? It's been reported he was trying to outrun a train (really?), and had he had a harness in place, he'd likely be alive and unhurt.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,741
    Godfather. wrote: »
    l would like to nomonate onama for this award and maybe even a life time Darwin Award winner.....for the poor and awfull planning of obamacare (just to name one) :(|) <br />
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    Godfather.

    darwin awards are meant for those who cause themselves physical harm by performing stupid stunts/idiotic actions. not for politicians you don't like.

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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    Godfather. Obama cares freakin great for those that don't have rosy work coverage. It's a success. And if you ever need coverage don't shoot yourself in foot or let your pride get in the way.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Where is Unsung?
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote: »
    Where is Unsung?
    Yeah!

    Dude's good in my book.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    A couple of question to ponder:

    If we apply the Darwin award to the whole human race does that mean we're all going to die, does it mean the most brutal will survive, does it mean the smartest will survive or does it mean the most cooperative will survive?

    And if you are the world's first sentient cockroach and are reading all of this are you laughing your ass off?
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  • Gillycw
    Gillycw Sydney Posts: 524
    I think this one wins - classic Aussie fuckwit

    THE Perth man who risked his life diving into shark-infested waters to climb on to a rotting whale carcass says he won’t do anything like it again and even his parents think he’s an idiot.

    Harrison Williams, of Quinns Rock, north of Perth, said: “I was out on the boat with the boys and one of my mates said it would be pretty funny to surf the whale so I did it.”

    The 26-year-old said he saw the sharks, including a massive great white, but they did not deter him from getting into the water.

    “They were too busy chomping on the whale so it wasn’t too bad,” he said.
  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    edited January 2015
    Miss unsung as well. Sent him pm while back with no response. Hope he comes back. Need all views on the train.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Gillycw wrote: »
    I think this one wins - classic Aussie fuckwit

    THE Perth man who risked his life diving into shark-infested waters to climb on to a rotting whale carcass says he won’t do anything like it again and even his parents think he’s an idiot.

    Harrison Williams, of Quinns Rock, north of Perth, said: “I was out on the boat with the boys and one of my mates said it would be pretty funny to surf the whale so I did it.”

    The 26-year-old said he saw the sharks, including a massive great white, but they did not deter him from getting into the water.

    “They were too busy chomping on the whale so it wasn’t too bad,” he said.

    He doesn't actually qualify as he's still alive; but for him, I'd say just give it time.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    The fitness instructor that got ran over by the train because he slipped ... he didn't slip. He was actually trying to run faster then the train for an energy drink commercial.

    The train won the race.

    Brawndo ... Its got electrolytes.
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,741
    Jason P wrote: »
    The fitness instructor that got ran over by the train because he slipped ... he didn't slip. He was actually trying to run faster then the train for an energy drink commercial.

    The train won the race.

    Brawndo ... Its got electrolytes.

    good god.

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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    Jason P wrote: »
    The fitness instructor that got ran over by the train because he slipped ... he didn't slip. He was actually trying to run faster then the train for an energy drink commercial.

    The train won the race.

    Brawndo ... Its got electrolytes.

    Some take things way to seriously and try to hard. Success. Relative.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    edited February 2020
    I think this story is worth re-kindling this thread ...

    'Mad Mike' Hughes, daredevil who built a homemade steam rocket, dies in launch attempt


    Daredevil "Mad Mike" Hughes died Saturday (Feb. 22) during his latest attempt to launch into the sky on a homemade rocket powered by steam. 

    Hughes, 64, was attempting to launch 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) into the air from a location near Barstow, California, in a rocket he built with partner Waldo Stakes. The Science Channel, which was filming the launch attempt as part of the future documentary series "Homemade Astronauts," confirmed Hughes' death to Space.com. 

    ....

    https://www.space.com/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-dies-in-homemade-rocket-launch.html

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  • PJPOWER
    PJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    Jason P said:
    I think this story is worth re-kindling this thread ...

    'Mad Mike' Hughes, daredevil who built a homemade steam rocket, dies in launch attempt


    Daredevil "Mad Mike" Hughes died Saturday (Feb. 22) during his latest attempt to launch into the sky on a homemade rocket powered by steam. 

    Hughes, 64, was attempting to launch 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) into the air from a location near Barstow, California, in a rocket he built with partner Waldo Stakes. The Science Channel, which was filming the launch attempt as part of the future documentary series "Homemade Astronauts," confirmed Hughes' death to Space.com. 

    ....

    https://www.space.com/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-dies-in-homemade-rocket-launch.html

    Flattened himself trying to prove the Earth isn’t round...call me impressed!

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