Haven't seen this latest list yet. If it's a duplicate, I'll accept no more than about a 1000 flames. ;-)
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> They have finally been released! For those not familiar with the Darwin
> Award - It's an annual honor given to the person who provided the
> universal human gene pool the biggest service by getting killed in the
> most extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition this year has been
> keen again. Some candidates appear to have trained their whole lives for
> this event.
>
> DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES
> 1. In September 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.
>
> 2. In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally
> zoned" when he ran, according to his wife, accidentally jogged off a
> 200-foot-high cliff on his daily run.
>
> 3. Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug
> into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beachgoers said Daniel Jones,
> 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been
> sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it
> collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the
> outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to
> Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him..
> It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him
> while about 200 people looked on.. Jones was pronounced dead at a
> hospital.
>
> 4. In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he
> fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burgling.
> Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to
> keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the
> floor.
>
> 5. According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was
> stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was
> trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was
> wearing.
>
> 6. Sylvester Briddell, Jr , 26, was killed in February in Selbyville, Del
> , 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.
>
> 7. In February, according to police in Windsor, Ont , Daniel Kolta, 27,
> and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a tie in
> the game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles.
>
> 8. In September, a 17-year-old boy fell off a 100-foot-high bluff near
> Ozark, Ark, after he lost his grip swinging on a cross that marked the
> spot where another person had fallen to his death in 1990.
>
> DARWIN AWARD HONORABLE MENTIONS
>
> 1) In Guthrie, Okla , in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede
> with a shot from his 22-caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a
> rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head, fracturing
> his skull.
>
> 2) In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out
> cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a propane
> torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his
> house.
>
> 3) Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, in
> September, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, by a quarter-stick of
> dynamite that blew up in their car . While driving around at 2AM, the
> bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see
> what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window
> was closed.
>
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