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Darwin Award candidate of the day
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Brave bastard!
Still, you would've just waited there and possibly burned to death, eh?
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostBrave bastard!
Still, you would've just waited there and possibly burned to death, eh?
Not Darwin material at all imho.Comment
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Originally posted by Moose423956 View PostI meant the fact that he put his hand in a moving machine, got his glove caught which dragged his fingers in, started to cut off his fingers, that caused a fire, then his hand started melting. Pillock!Comment
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Originally posted by Moose423956 View PostI meant the fact that he put his hand in a moving machine, got his glove caught which dragged his fingers in, started to cut off his fingers, that caused a fire, then his hand started melting. Pillock!
Not Darwin at all. Just an unfortunate accident.
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Not really a Darwin candidate, otherwise you could include people who die crossing the road.
Anyway, he is technically disqualified because he has procreated (3 times), and he would only get the award when he dies.
However, it reminds me of someone who did something similar when a rock fell on his arm in the wilderness somewhere. He was trapped for something like three days before deciding it was his arm or death.Comment
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Originally posted by wendigo100 View PostNot really a Darwin candidate, otherwise you could include people who die crossing the road.
Anyway, he is technically disqualified because he has procreated (3 times), and he would only get the award when he dies.
However, it reminds me of someone who did something similar when a rock fell on his arm in the wilderness somewhere. He was trapped for something like three days before deciding it was his arm or death.
Chopping his own arm off, not the playing with rocks thing.
Found it, Wikipedia, I love you!
In 2007, 66-year old Al Hill amputated his leg below the knee using his pocketknife after the leg got stuck beneath a felled tree he was cutting in California. [1]
In 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston amputated his forearm using his pocketknife and breaking and tearing the two bones, after the arm got stuck under a boulder when hiking in Utah.
Also in 2003, an Australian coal miner amputated his own arm with a Stanley knife after it became trapped when the front-end loader he was driving overturned three kilometers underground. [2]
In the 1990s, a crab fisherman got his arm caught in the winch during a storm and had to amputate it at the shoulder, as reported in The New Englander.Last edited by Churchill; 27 November 2007, 12:46.Comment
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Originally posted by Moose423956 View PostAlright already. So he's not a Darwin Award candidate. You've made your point.
And it's no accident as you don't put your hand/arm in moving machines."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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