Announcing the 2007 Darwin arward "winners"!

> Subject: Darwin Awards

Yes, it's again that magical time of the year when the Darwin Awards 
are
bestowed, honoring the least-evolved among us.

And the glorious Winner for 2007 is:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim
during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James 
Elliot
did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel
and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
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And now, the Honorable Mentions:
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat- 
cutting
machine and submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company
expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for 
himself.
He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.
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3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car
during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a 
woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.
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4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus 
driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting
from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his
incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered 
everyone
waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the
mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very 
excitable
and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
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5. A Texas teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received  the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how 
closehe could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

> >6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the
counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer,the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register,  which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and
fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash  he got from the drawer: $15.

> >7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some booze and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his  head
at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be  thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

> >8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher.
Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

> >9. The Ann Arbor Michigan News crime column reported that a man  walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun,  and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't
open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered  onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

> >******THE 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER*****
> >10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd had in a very long time.