DARWIN AWARDS - name your candidate

I can’t imagine which one you might be thinking of.

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I’d say nobody is that stupid, but… wow.

Having done a few, I can say the MRI operators are really particular and repetitive about removing all metal (all the way down to zipper prescence/nature).

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Wearing a 9kg chain out of the house to begin with is…yeah. It’s a start isn’t it

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Bit of a sad one, but we had a case conference type thing at work today about a guy semi-recently that presented with severe internal trauma and (basically) sans two hands after the petrol tank he was welding exploded on him.
Made it to RMH but after 4 operations and 2 weeks in ICU sadly passed away.

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Was the tank nearly empty, or did they not even consider that much detail?

Either way, clearly not empty enough!

A teenager who died after accidentally shooting himself at a Seaford home can be revealed as an accused criminal allegedly involved in the violent abduction of a schoolboy who was dragged along a road and left with permanent brain damage.

Kiki Utkovic, 16, was playing with a homemade gun inside a home on Glen Alvie Street in Melbourne’s outer south-east about 4.30pm on July 27, when it fired.

And good riddance.

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Nasty. Didn’t he see the recent final destination movie?

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Many years ago i was working at Monterey Tech in Frankston, as an Electrician wiring the new extensions to the school .I was walking between 2 rows of the existing buildings where some of the students were having a spit water fight .I didn’t deviate thru them when I copped an earful of water, I chased after the student and had them by the shirt up and under their throat ,I then realised that this was a young girl and not a boy. After giving her a shaking I continued on my way . Then the pain of the haemorroids that I had lanced the day before reminded me of the No Physical exercise the doctor had told me. I didn’t cop any lip from any of the students after that. it was 1975. Welcome to Frankston North.

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Sometimes the universe is a just place:

A wealthy big-game hunter from Texas was killed when a Cape buffalo that he had been eyeing for his next trophy attacked him during a safari in South Africa, according to the company that arranged the expedition.

The victim, Asher Watkins, 52, a Dallas real estate executive who sold ranches, was pursuing one of the horned buffaloes in Limpopo province, the northernmost province in South Africa, when the attack happened on Sunday, Coenraad Vermaak Safaris said in an email.

Asher Watkins was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when it attacked and killed him.

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Nothing worse than c0ckheads (usually rich Americans) ‘bravely’ hunting and shooting animals for sport.

Go the animals.

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Farked around, found out.

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They need to be made to hunt the animals with clubs and not high powered rifles with scopes and from camouflaged bunkers. Lets see how good they are then. Include the worlds biggest idoit hunter Don Jnr in the first group please.

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And Glenn McGrath

Yeah.

He didn’t do himself any favours with that decision.

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That is a quality nomination.

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If we’re digging up oldies (no pun intended), this has always been my favourite:

New York Rider Dies Protesting Motorcycle Helmet Law - ABC News

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