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The Darwin's are awarded every year to the persons who died in the
most stupid manner, thereby removing themselves from the gene pool.

This year's nominees are:

Nominee No. 1: [San Jose Mercury
News]: An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a
former girlfriends 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, MI, 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 troubling 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, NC. 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. (For whatever reason, residents of Southern
states always seem to figure prominently among the Darwin nominees.)

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 buildings windows to visiting law students. Hoy
previously has conducted demonstrations of window strength according to
police reports. Peter Lawson, 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: [The News of the Weird]: Michael Anderson Godwin
made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting
South Carolinas electric chair on a murder conviction before having his
sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in
his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was
electrocuted.

Nominee No. 6: [The Indianapolis Star]: A cigarette lighter may
have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. 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 at about 11:30 PM. 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. 7: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario]: A man cleaning a
bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto
suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. Stefan Macko, 55, was
standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred, said Inspector
Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police. "It appears that the chair
moved, and he went over the balcony," Honer said.

Finally, THE WINNER!: [ Arkansas Democrat Gazette]: Two local men
were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree
near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday.

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, were returning to Des Arc after a frog catching 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 bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse
box next to the steering-wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet the
headlights again began to operate properly, and the two men proceeded
on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.

After traveling approximately 20 miles, and just before crossing
the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged, and struck
Poole in the testicles. 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 extensive surgery to repair
the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended.
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 10 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? (Though Poole and Wallis did not die as
a result of their misadventure as normally required by Darwin Award
Official Rules, it can be argued that Poole did, in fact, effectively
remove himself from the gene pool.)

All of which are funny (and some - gruesome).

Kidding aside, are these events true?

royski wrote:All of which are funny (and some - gruesome).

Kidding aside, are these events true?

I would guess so since they happened in USA and Canada

Every year these or similar tales are trotted out. They do make me laugh, but I'm not sure as to their actual validity.

The one that always makes me grin is the one about the guy who attached 4 helium weather balloons to a garden chair anchored to the ground in his garden. He then cut the attaching rope. Investigators say that he was probably still alive as he shot up vertically for a couple of 100 feet. aaaand was possibly still alive before being sucked into the jet engine of a passing aircraft.

wot a dolt !!!!!!!!!!