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> Yes, it's again that magical time of the year when the Darwin Awards
>are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
>
> Here is the glorious Winner:
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 5. An American 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 close he 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. (If someone points a gun at you and
> gives you money, is a crime committed?)
>
> 7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty
> badly. He decided that 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 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.
>
> ******A 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
> ever had.
> In the interest of bettering human kind please share these with your
> friends and family .. unless of course one of these 10 individuals by
> chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case be
> glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.
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