These are just scary and kind of make me understand the stupid warnings we find on some products…
Eighth Place
In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
Seventh Place
A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who ‘totally zoned when he ran,’ accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.
Sixth Place
While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Fifth Place
Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarising. Death was caused when the long flashlight he ha d placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
Fourth Place
Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.
Third Place
After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the counter.
Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up, and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, and several customers also drew their guns and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt.
HONOURABLE MENTION
Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 A.M. so they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed.
RUNNER UP
Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope.
Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman’s cable, lay near by. They secured one end around Bingham’s leg and then tied the other to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham’s foot was never located.
AND THE WINNER IS…
Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded. The sheer force of the elephant’s unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him.
It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves… ‘Sh*t happens’.
THEY WALK AMONG US…..
IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPORTANT TO THANK THESE PEOPLE FOR REMOVING THEMSELVES FROM THE GENE POOL.
@mmonyte
•15 years ago
…and how many of the top 10 were American?
@mmonyte
•15 years ago
…and how many of the top 10 were American? It shows why Americans don’t believe in Evoloution!
InSanityFound
•15 years ago
Careful we know a chimp who has an uncle called Pauly and knows another called Vinny…
hmmm do you think she knows Brasco???
Joy
•15 years ago
Are you sure this isn’t why you identified to an elephant??? Tears are pouring down my face!! LOL!!!
You better be careful, my Uncle is Uncle Pauly!!
InSanityFound
•15 years ago
Oh shit I never thought of that!!! ROFLMAO the my tears are joining yours omg tff
waaaaait if you are my sister and Amber is our sister same as Deeps with DM being our brother then Pauly is also my uncle… does he have cookies?
DM
•15 years ago
I love these darwin award stories (in a sick sort of way)…did you hear the one a year or so ago about the carpenter who was tied off to his truck while he shingled? (so he wouldn’t slide off the roof) his girl friend jumps in the truck to go get something…:-( I’m a carpenter by day so that one was too close to home. anyway…when are the cookies coming?
InSanityFound
•15 years ago
ROFL that is just bad bad bad! Brilliant in a sick kind a way… sheesh!!!
Cheeky cheeky we must ask hectic Amber bout them cookies I would post you some from here but fear the post office nabbing them and shoving them in their mouths!
vishesh
•15 years ago
*sigh…humans and insanity go hand in hand…..insanity is the heart of man kind 🙂
InSanityFound
•15 years ago
aye what is life without insanity 😀
amandzing
•15 years ago
:roflmao:
i read these often, hollywood couldn’t make up stuff like this
InSanityFound
•15 years ago
It’s too sad not to be true lol
vanessaleighsblog
•15 years ago
Sad, sick, all of those things that we end up shaking our heads and thinking…..”how could this be?”
InSanityFound
•15 years ago
Lol I couldn’t agree more – so sick that one has to laugh because the alternative is just too much