Darwin awardee 2005

[virividox]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/18/balcony.death.ap/index.html

gets my vote for darwin awardee for 2005

[3Memos]

Must have been drunk.

[MongoTheGeek]

Must have been drunk.

You never know

[robbieduncan]

Or on some "medication" perhaps?

[apple2991]

Must have been drunk.

I hope not. Makes it a lot less funny if she were.

Famous last words: "Hey! See what I can still d-AAAAAARGH!" I hope I don't go like that.

[Nickygoat]

I hope I don't go like that.
I hope I do go like that - at least it's quick. Don't want to be that dumb though

[3Memos]

Getting rid of the stupid people. Evolution at work.

[virividox]

honestly what makes anyone think doing a handstand on a railing is fun?

[Mr. Anderson]

the scary part is that she wasn't worried about the fall.....sad, truly sad...

D

[wdlove]

Just before she fell, she had called out to a friend, "Watch to see what I can still do,"

It is a very sad way for one's life to end. Reading her comment caused me to wonder if she wasn't suffering from depression. Had she tried to get help prior. Could have very well been suicide, as though she wasn't able to perform her daily life.

[emw]

What seems odd is that she fell from the second floor. Now I realize that's gotta hurt, but isn't that only about 10-12 feet of fall? Though I guess it was onto the patio, which I assume is concrete, and perhaps below ground level.

[3Memos]

What if it was foul play.

"Just before she fell, she had called out to a friend, "Watch to see what I can still do," a police report said. Foul play is not believed to be involved, officials said."

Instead what if she called out to her supposed-friend, "Stop pushing me!"

[Lord Blackadder]

What seems odd is that she fell from the second floor. Now I realize that's gotta hurt, but isn't that only about 10-12 feet of fall? Though I guess it was onto the patio, which I assume is concrete, and perhaps below ground level.

It doesn't take much of a fall to kill you, if you hit your head. In fact, if you fell to the floor from a standing position and didn't put your arms out, you might sustain fatal trauma (kids, DON'T try this at home).

[Mantat]

This is not that bad. Google for Freerun and you will see people doing way more dangerous stunts. With proper training, handastand like this arent dangerous at all and in the article there is no mention of the athletic skills.

The only weird thing is that its a girl, not a boy! I totaly see myself doing that kind of thing!

So far I have done:
- jump numerous times from roof to roof
- jump from roof to pool (inbetween distance was about 9feet)
- climb super high tree
- rock climb free style (no rope or any thing)
- gun fight with my friend with bb guns (that was very stupid)
- spliting shotgun sheels to get the black powder so I could make rockets

Most of these things were done before I was 18 and I would probably never do them again, I think I have wasted all my 'spare lives' doing these things and I would not want my name associated with the Darwins award in anyways!

[ziwi]

What an idiot. But really we all know people like this. Hey, watch me run across this freeway...

[mkaake]

Getting rid of the stupid people. Evolution at work.

natural selection at work, not evolution ;)

[emw]

It doesn't take much of a fall to kill you, if you hit your head. In fact, if you fell to the floor from a standing position and didn't put your arms out, you might sustain fatal trauma (kids, DON'T try this at home).Sure, but if someone is athletic enough to do handstands on railings, you'd think they'd know how to avoid falling on their head. But apparently not.

[Blackheart]

natural selection at work, not evolution ;)

Call me crazy but I thought natural selection was fundamental to the theory of evolution.

[Blackheart]

Sure, but if someone is athletic enough to do handstands on railings, you'd think they'd know how to avoid falling on their head. But apparently not.

Key words... "athletic enough to do handstands on railings"... seems to me this person wasn't fantastic at this.

[mkaake]

Call me crazy but I thought natural selection was fundamental to the theory of evolution.

sure it's fundamental to the theory of evolution, but that doesn't mean that events of natural selection are evolution :)

anyhew, pretty stupid. i think if I wanted to show someone that I could do a handstand, i might do it on my bed, or in the living room... deff. not on the handrailing of a second story balcony...

[Blackheart]

sure it's fundamental to the theory of evolution, but that doesn't mean that events of natural selection are evolution :)

... touché...

:)

[emw]

Key words... "athletic enough to do handstands on railings"... seems to me this person wasn't fantastic at this.Quite true. And she probably wasn't coherent enough to understand what was happening either.

[mpw]

sure it's fundamental to the theory of evolution, but that doesn't mean that events of natural selection are evolution :)

anyhew, pretty stupid. i think if I wanted to show someone that I could do a handstand, i might do it on my bed, or in the living room... deff. not on the handrailing of a second story balcony...

Reminds me of the old Bill Hicks rant about how acid don't kill people stupid kills people. Why do people who take acid and believe they can fly climb the stairs and jump off the roof instead of proving it more convincingly by takeing off from the ground and flying up to the roof?

[patrick0brien]

-virividox

I second your nomination.

You want to submit it or should I?

[mactastic]

-virividox

I second your nomination.

You want to submit it or should I?

Check to make sure she didn't have any kids first...

[virividox]

-virividox

I second your nomination.

You want to submit it or should I?

you may have the honors :)

[Daveway]

I have all the books! Its very funny but sad at the same time.
My favorite is the guy who used a bullet as a fuse in his car and the bullet fired and shot him in the testicle so he swerved and wrecked killing him and the passenger. And we can't forget the guy who wanted to fly with all the balloons.

[patrick0brien]

Check to make sure she didn't have any kids first...

-mactastic

Ah, quite right. Good call.

[virividox]

I have all the books! Its very funny but sad at the same time.
My favorite is the guy who used a bullet as a fuse in his car and the bullet fired and shot him in the testicle so he swerved and wrecked killing him and the passenger. And we can't forget the guy who wanted to fly with all the balloons.

i like the lawyer who ran through a high rise window testing it for law students!!! DUH

[chanoc]

About a month ago, a woman in Anchorage, Alaska pulled off the Seward Highway at McHuge Creek. She proceeded to douse herself with gasoline, walked down the highway, and lite herself onfire - a walking torch visible to passing motorists. A couple of motorists stopped to help by rolling her in the snow, but burns covered 90% of her body. She was rushed to the hospital.

This story appeared in the Anchorage Daily News last month, but was not posted on their Web site. Latter I learned they pulled the AP article due to sensitive issues.

Why the hell would somebody do an act as stupid as this? This gets my vote for the Darwin Award. :rolleyes:

[mpw]

About a month ago, a woman in Anchorage, Alaska pulled off the Seward Highway at McHuge Creek. She proceeded to douse herself with gasoline, walked down the highway, and lite herself onfire - a walking torch visible to passing motorists. A couple of motorists stopped to help by rolling her in the snow, but burns covered 90% of her body. She was rushed to the hospital.

This story appeared in the Anchorage Daily News last month, but was not posted on their Web site. Latter I learned they pulled the AP article due to sensitive issues.

Why the hell would somebody do an act as stupid as this? This gets my vote for the Darwin Award. :rolleyes:

While a 'stupid' act I doubt it'll qualify for the Darwin's. I think the act needs to be stupid but the death uninteded. Although they'll make an exception where a suicide attempt while ultimately succesfull is so in a manner not directly intended by the victim/idiot/awardee!

[patrick0brien]

-chanoc

I agree. This seems more of a suicide thing rather than an 'oopsie'.

[Apple Hobo]

Reminds me of a joke (Jeff Foxworthy?)...

Q: What are a redneck's famous last words?
A: "Hey, y'all, watch this!"

:D

[virividox]

About a month ago, a woman in Anchorage, Alaska pulled off the Seward Highway at McHuge Creek. She proceeded to douse herself with gasoline, walked down the highway, and lite herself onfire - a walking torch visible to passing motorists. A couple of motorists stopped to help by rolling her in the snow, but burns covered 90% of her body. She was rushed to the hospital.

This story appeared in the Anchorage Daily News last month, but was not posted on their Web site. Latter I learned they pulled the AP article due to sensitive issues.

Why the hell would somebody do an act as stupid as this? This gets my vote for the Darwin Award. :rolleyes:

some people lite themselves up as a manner of protest. so i dont find it unlikely that she was either doing someting similar to meet those ends

[bigandy]

i showed this to a friend - he just said "typical bloody americans".

i think i almost wet myself laughing.

DISCLAIMER: no offence to any americans intended. it's a joke, find it funny. i have a lot of american friends from travelling for months in the states and they'd all take it as a joke. do the same. ;)

:D

[virividox]

hahah someone gonna make a joke about alaskans i can feel it coming :D

[wdlove]

hahah someone gonna make a joke about alaskans i can feel it coming :D

Both of these stories are very sad. To do either of these takes a very deep despair. Probably their calls for help were ignored. Some also just can't be reached. :(