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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.'

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Those could be the best ones yet.

Think the Zimbabwean bus driver deserves an honorary CRT membership. He came up with a better excuse than most guys on CRT give their wives as the reason they are going to Costa Rica.

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

Great post ID!!! I especially liked the guy who went into the convenience store with $20, robbed the place, and walked out with $15 !

By the way.... Congrats Orange on hitting 4,000 posts!!!

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kind of remind me of Wile E Coyote cartoon...

What a moron....

Being a Chicago guy myself, I can tell you that there is an unwritten, universal understanding amongst the good and decent people of my city that you don’t take a parking spot that someone else has just shoveled after a snow storm. There is nothing worse than spending hours outside freezing your nuts off, with wind chill factors in the negatives, clearing out a spot in four feet of snow, only to have some douchebag unsuspectingly slip in and park there when you’re away. Usually this is prevented by placing lawn furniture (and/or any other household items that are available) out along the curb to stake your claim, but that doesn’t necessarily eliminate the possibility that some utterly classless asshole will simply move your stuff to the side and park there anyway.

Although I find the parking of a vehicle in a space that someone else shoveled to be a bold-faced affront to civility and good manners, I believe that murdering the offending party is a little extreme. I personally would have retaliated with the widely accepted method of flattening their tires.

It's the same in Boston, MA once you clear out a parking spot, it's yours until the snow melts as long as you put out a couple of chairs or buckets.

My favourite is the bus driver...

I can DEFINITELY understand shooting the woman for taking that cleared spot.