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You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off![Official Darwin Awards - 2009]
The Telegraph [UK] ^
| 02 Jan 2010
| Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Posted on 01/02/2010 6:26:09 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
Two Belgian bankrobbers have been named the Darwin Award winners of the year after killing themselves while trying to crack open a cash machine.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Humor; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2009review; darwinaward; manoftheyear; napl
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
Africa, South America, whatever. The way I heard it, it seemed like Africa, however. Congo, obviously. But, who cares if I’m wrong?
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posted on
01/02/2010 6:52:13 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The right thing is not always the popular thing)
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
It could have been Crocs, actually, which would make it Australia or something.
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posted on
01/02/2010 6:53:30 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The right thing is not always the popular thing)
To: Petronski
Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?
That's the one.
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posted on
01/02/2010 6:55:24 PM PST
by
paulycy
(AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
I heard of this one Darwin Award winner once. He was exploring Africa and was attacked by tsetse flies. So he jumped into a river and was eaten by piranha instead. Very doubtful. Piranha are found in the waters of the Amazon basin, on the continent of South America.
To: JohnD9207
To qualify, Nelson would have to render himself unable to reproduce. Unless he’s allergic to Viagra, he’s still in the game.
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posted on
01/02/2010 6:58:41 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
To: JoeProBono
Wow, pics of the bank. This may be the first Darwin award I’ve seen that is actually true. Most have been urban legends
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:00:56 PM PST
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: centurion316
I heard that particular story on the Mark and Brian show, not sure if you’ve heard of that. I just recounted it as best I could.
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:01:12 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The right thing is not always the popular thing)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
This is not the darwin award you are looking for.
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:06:06 PM PST
by
patton
(Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
To: edcoil
Years ago I saw a video on tv, with a very drunk guy asking a deputy, “Wanna see something neat?” He then bent over and ran head first into a wall.
I nearly split a gut. After the deputy went over and picked him up, he said, “Wanna see it again?”
If anyone has a link to it I’d like to take another look at it.
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:15:53 PM PST
by
I still care
(A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Wrong Saturday.
The rule for dynamiting ATMs is different than the rule for transporting nitroglycerin.
It’s like the rule for winning the manliest man contest; “Only enough to win, my dear!”
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:18:50 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(I don't watch TV unless it has a keyboard. 'Cause I like to talk back.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Wile E. Coyote sez you can never have too much dynamite.
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:28:37 PM PST
by
Salem
(Everything is going to be okay! - http://www.salemthesoldier.us/Okay)
To: Salem
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:47:47 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
To: Telepathic Intruder; tubebender; Slings and Arrows
It could have been Crocs, actually, which would make it Australia or something.Or it could have been a giant industrial shredder, which would make it Iraq, or sumthin...
Um, tubebender, you're just going to have to learn to read backwards. You know, shredder to croc to piranha. How bout the guy that tied balloons to his lawn chair. Don't try this a home kids.
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:48:21 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(Wait, what?)
To: NicknamedBob; Pete-R-Bilt; tubebender; NormsRevenge; WestCoastGal
Its like the rule for winning the manliest man contest; Only enough to win, my dear!Must have got it confused with the motorhead horsepower motto... if more is better, then too much is just right.
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:50:47 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(Wait, what?)
To: Slings and Arrows; patton
OK. Thanks for the info. 8<)
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posted on
01/02/2010 7:53:40 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: glock rocks
I should get a runner-up award for the abuse I take from my favorite FReepers...
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:14:02 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
To: glock rocks
It might have been velociraptors, which would make it somewhere around the Cretaceous Period or something.
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:23:38 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The right thing is not always the popular thing)
To: Slings and Arrows
Must be a slow day in the science world to have this written by a somewhat illiterate science writer and posted in the Science section of the paper.
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:39:47 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Slings and Arrows
“...’ang on a moment, lads, I’ve got a great idea....”
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:51:27 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:16:10 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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