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You've heard of the Darwin Awards, which are given to people who do things so stupid that they're taken out of the gene pool? Well, the Automotive Darwin Awards are given to those people who do things so stupid that theyneed to be taken out of the car pool! Presented for your enjoyment are 14 photos showing some recent recipients.

MONTREAL — A year after three teenagers were killed by a Via Rail train under the Turcot Interchange, families and friends are heading to Ottawa to ask the federal government for a change to Canada's Railway Safety Act. Dylan Ford, Mitch Bracken, and Ricardo Conesa, were trespassing on the rail yards under the interchange when they were hit by Train 668 on Halloween night, 2010. Two friends survived because they were not on the tracks. The boys were known for spray-painting graffiti, although their families say when the crash happened the boys were walking back to their cars.

A self-proclaimed skinhead was knocked unconscious by a black man after threatening to stab him last weekend in Bayview, Idaho, officials said Friday. Daren Christopher Abbey, 28, was booked into jail on malicious harassment charge after being treated at a hospital for facial fractures, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department. Abbey is accused of threatening to stab Marlon L. Baker, 46, inside J.D.'s Resort July 3 in Bayview after telling him he didn't belong in the bar because he was black, said Lt. Stu Miller. Baker left the bar to avoid a fight, but Abbey followed to a marina...

Here's one guy that won't die of a broken heart. Gabriel Mendigutia, a student at Florida International University, dared his girlfriend to shoot him with a pellet rifle on May 23. She did — from a distance of 30 to 40 feet in the backyard, with her eyes closed. The lead pellet went through Mendigutia’s heart and lodged in a muscle in his back, reports The Miami Herald. But because of an unusual anatomy of Mendigutia’s heart, blood was able to flow through the opposite side of the artery, possibly saving his life. His girlfriend hasn’t been charged because "in...

A HUNTER died after squeezing his head into a rabbit hole and suffocating. Energy Kamuruko was out tracking with dogs when he noticed a rabbit dart into a tunnel near the village of Mandipaka in Nyanga. The 20-year-old peered inside but his head got stuck. His body was found the following day by a neighbour. A postmortem confirmed he died on Sunday of asphyxiation. It is the second hunting-related accidental death in recent months. In August, Tamsen Lucius, 36, impaled himself on his own spear while chasing wild pigs. Police said he had climbed a tree to try and get...

A New Hampshire high school student shocked so severely in shop class that his heart stopped beating is suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover. Kyle Dubois and his parents claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Dubois and other students of the dangers of the electrical demonstration cords in their electrical trades class. On March 11, Dubois attached an electrical clamp to one nipple while another student attached another clamp to the other. A third student plugged in the cord. Dubois was critically injured.

Two Georgia Tech students were seriously burned early Wednesday in a chemical explosion behind a fraternity house. (snip) Mechanical engineering student Michael Parker of Hiram was at an adjacent fraternity house when the incident happened. Parker told WSB Radio that Keen and Grzybowski had mixed aluminum powder and rust powder in an experiment that he called "high school basic chemistry." The experiment can produce a pyrotechnic effect, much like a huge sparkler. "It's real simple to get; you don't have to really go very far to get the materials," Parker said. "You just put them together and ignite them with...

A Boaz woman trying to retaliate against the person who repossessed her car got burned in the process. Literally. Authorities say Haleigh Elizabeth Boland, 26, accidentally set herself on fire while she was torching the car of the person who had taken hers. To make matters worse, the entire incident was caught on tape. "It was just a big act of foolishness all the way around," said Etowah County Sheriff's spokeswoman Natalie Barton. The incident happened May 8 when authorities said Haleigh Boland and her father, Benny Gene Boland, 50, went to a home on Carlisle Cut-Off Road in the...

Vodka eyeballing. It’s the latest drinking fad on YouTube, and it could cause blindness. Hundreds of online videos that originated in the U.K. show teens pouring vodka directly into their eyes, straight from the bottle. The videos are getting hundreds of thousands of hits, MyFoxDC.com reported. Substance abuse expert Mike Gumbel claims kids aren’t eyeballing to get drunk faster, but do it when the effects of alcohol have already set in and impaired their judgment. Eyeballing is more of a prank than a way to become more intoxicated. “They’re not doing it to get more drunk, they’re doing it as...

Train Kills 3 Teenage Girls On Bridge In Florida Police say one boy made it across bridge first and tried to warn the others MELBOURNE, Fla. - Three teenage girls crossing a bridge in central Florida were killed by a freight train as they desperately tried to get out of its way and their helpless friend on the other side could only watch, police said Sunday. The girls and the fourth teenager, a boy, were hanging out in Melbourne's downtown area — known for its shops and nightclubs — when they decided to cross the trestle around 6:30 p.m. Saturday,...

NEWARK -- A man was in critical condition Friday night when he accidentally lit himself on fire with a cigarette while cleaning motorcycle parts and unintentionally splashed himself with gasoline, authorities said. The incident occurred at 7:57 p.m. at a residence on 14th Avenue near South 19th Street where a man was cleaning motorcycle parts when he splashed himself with gasoline, said Newark Fire Chief Michael Lalor. He then lit a cigarette and accidentally lit himself on fire, Lalor said. Relatives rushed over and put the flames out.

MESA, Ariz. - A teenager accidentally ran over and killed her 17-year-old brother as the two played around in a shopping mall parking lot, police said yesterday. Ed Wessing, Mesa police spokesman, identified the brother as Dwight J. Brock Jr. and his sister as 16-year-old Nicole M. Brock, both residents of Mesa. The sister had dropped off her brother at Superstition Springs Mall on Saturday evening, Wessing said, and then they started playing around, with the brother jumping in front of the car and the sister slamming on the brakes. The last time that happened the sister was unable to...

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LONDON: A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal On the Origin of Species will be sold this week after it was found in a family's toilet in southern Britian, an auction house said on Sunday.

IMPERIAL, Mo., Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Alcohol allegedly was a factor in the death of a Missouri man who shot himself in the head while teaching his girlfriend firearm safety, police said. James Looney, 40, of Imperial shot himself while demonstrating the safety mechanisms on three guns, Sheriff Glenn Boyer told KSDK-TV, St. Louis, in a story aired Tuesday. Looney put two guns to his head and pulled the triggers to show his girlfriend they would not fire with the safety catch in place, witnesses said. The third gun fired, Boyer said, adding deputies believed Looney had been drinking. Looney...

Wildlife officials say a bear was found feeding on the body of a 73-year-old woman who had been repeatedly warned not to give dog food to the bruins that live near her home north of Ouray. Colorado Division of Wildlife spokesman ...says the woman was known to feed bears dog food and would not stop, even after repeated requests from wildlife officials. Sheriff's deputies investigating the incident killed an aggressive bear at the woman's home. A necropsy is planned for the 250-pound male to determine the contents of its stomach.

The Canadian Press Updated: Mon. Jun. 29 2009 4:55 PM ET MONTREAL — A man is in critical condition in Montreal after falling off the roof of a moving SUV while performing what may have been a dangerous stunt known as car surfing. The man's head struck the pavement when he lost his balance. Police say they are attempting to identify the man, who is believed to be in his 20s. Car surfing is a daredevil-style of acrobatics during which passengers perform stunts while riding on top of a moving vehicle.

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Police in Bloomington say a 23-year-old man is in stable condition after he pretended that he was falling off a bridge over the Minnesota River, then actually fell off the bridge. Police got a call just before 5 a.m. Sunday from a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the Highway 77 bridge and into a marshy area about 30 feet below. The caller said he was driving north when his friend, who he said had been drinking, told him to pull into the bridge's emergency lane so he could urinate. The 23-year-old stood eventually climbed to the ledge...

A controversial zoo in Argentina allows tourists to have extremely close encounters with some of the most dangerous predators in the world. Here at the Lujan Zoo near Buenos Aires visitors can ride lions, cuddle bears, stroke tigers and feed cheetahs. The animals appear to be very sedate and tame and keepers casually supervise the animals that aren't chained when they are out of their cages. Visitors can even pick up the smaller animals and manhandle them at risk to themselves and the creatures.

Men killed while sawing through bomb THREE Vietnamese men were killed while trying to saw through a war-era shell to salvage metal and explosives, police said. The men, between 19 and 44 years old, were trying to break open a 105mm shell when the blast happened in southern Tay Ninh province on Friday local policeman Nguyen Minh Kha said. "The poor men wanted to sell the metal for money. They could not escape the sudden blast,'' he said.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The past year in Florida saw deputies Taser an emu, iguanas fall from trees and a Christmas tree used as a weapon. What else would you expect in a state where a longtime congresswoman hung up on President-elect Barack Obama not once, but twice? In a year full of weird events, Republican U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen thought she was being "punked" when Obama called her a few weeks after the election. She told him he was a better Obama impersonator than the guy on Saturday Night Live and hung up. Obama called back, and she hung up...

WAUKESHA, Wis., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A man in Mukwonago, Wis., suffered burns to his hands after using a lighter for additional light while siphoning gas from a vehicle, police allege. Police said the unidentified suspect needed gas to travel to his home in Wauzeka, Wis., last weekend when he decided to siphon fuel from a van for his sport utility vehicle, Milwaukee's WISN-TV reported Wednesday. When he was unable to see the level of gas in a container, the man used his lighter for additional light, police allege. Police said the flame ignited the flammable materials Saturday and the...

A local girl is recovering after being attacked by her own pet, a Burmese python. The father says he was forced to kill the snake to save his daughter. The family says they never imagined the pet they loved would attack. While they didn't want their faces shown, they told News 3 they're coming forward to remind others about the possible dangers. "She was wrapped around my ribs and every time I moved she'd squeeze them tighter so I couldn't breathe," 13-year-old Katherine said. Katherine's uncle and father came to her rescue. "As I was untangling, it was wrapping around...

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan authorities say a shoplifting suspect died after being crushed in a trash compactor where she was hiding. The Eaton County sheriff's department said two women fled a Lansing-area TJ Maxx discount store after spraying a security guard with Mace. A deputy found one of the women behind a trash compactor.

A man who may have been trying to steal copper wiring was severely burned on top of a utility pole this morning, Dallas Fire-Rescue said. His rescue was hindered because his flesh had melded with the metal on the pole. A Dallas Fire-Rescue dispatcher said a passerby called about 5:30 a.m. to report that a man was on top of a utility pole and that wires were sparking above in the 800 block of Regal Row near the Irving border. Police said there had also been reports of power outages in the area. When crews arrived, they found a person,...

Man hit by police cruiser was tying shoe, friends say Tuesday, August 5, 2008 3:05 AM By Amanda Dolasinski THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH A man who was killed early Sunday when he was run over by a Minerva Park police cruiser traveled frequently between Columbus and West Virginia, where he lived, his father said yesterday. Mehrdad Pourfarhadi said his son Boback was walking with three friends from one apartment complex to another across the street when he was struck at 3:30 a.m. on Westerville Road, just south of Minerva Lake Road. Columbus police said the 25-year-old Boback Pourfarhadi fell and was...

KRASNODAR, May 13 (RIA Novosti) - A drunken Russian zookeeper, who was mauled by a lion after climbing into its pen May 1 at a zoo in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, died in hospital Tuesday, investigators said. The man, who had been suspended from work for being drunk, entered the animal's enclosure while the lion slept and was attacked by the big cat as he tried to tap it on the nose. Following the attack the zookeeper was hospitalized in a critical condition undergoing surgery to amputate his hand but died from his injuries. A criminal investigation...

(6 July 2006, Ohio) Insurance fraud is harder than it looks. ... Just ask Musa and his son Essa, who hired an arsonist to burn down their Steak Thyme Subs shop so they could collect the insurance money. ... The neighborhood was up in arms over the apparent "hate crimes" repeatedly being committed against the Jordanian immigrants. ... Eventually Musa grew tired of throwing good money after bad. For the fourth arson attempt, only 12 hours after the flaming chairs fizzled, he and his son decided to help out their hired hand. They spread gasoline around their eatery, so that...

A LANDMINE blew up in the home of a religious cleric in southern Afghanistan, killing the mullah, two of his sons and two other men who had been preparing an attack, police said today. The cleric's wife was critically wounded in the blast in their compound in the southern province of Helmand late yesterday, and a daughter was hurt, provincial police chief General Mohammad Hussein Andiwal said. The bodies of the mullah and his two sons, both under 15 years old, remained at the site of the blast, he said. Other people in the compound said two other men were...

5 dead after crash at "fly-in" community runway Associated Press - January 26, 2008 2:44 PM ET OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Florida Highway Patrol says five young men are dead today after a car they were riding in crashed after traveling off an airport runway. The runway is at the exclusive "fly-in" community of Jumbolair Aviation Estates. The crash at the community, which is also the home of actor John Travolta, happened at about 3:45 a.m. According to a preliminary FHP investigation, a 2008 gray BMW with 5 occupants, ages 18 to 20, was traveling at a high rate of...

One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday. Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed, that the three yelled and waved at the tiger but insisted they never threw anything into its pen to provoke the cat, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. "As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have...

CHAPARRAL, N.M. - Getting a tattoo can be a painful proposition, but usually it's just the needle you have to worry about. Two men trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo accidentally shot themselves, the Otero County Sheriff's Department said Monday. Robert Glasser and Joey Acosta, both 22, were treated at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, after the shooting Thursday evening in nearby Chaparral. Authorities said Glasser was struck in the hand when the gun accidentally went off, and Acosta was hit in the left arm. Their injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said.

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San Francisco police are investigating the possibility that one of the victims in the fatal tiger mauling on Christmas Day climbed over a waist-high fence and then dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of a moat that kept the big cat away from the public, sources close to the investigation said Wednesday.

DARWIN AWARDS 2007 And once again, it's time for the Darwin Award Nominees. The Darwins are awarded every year to the persons who died in the most stupid manner, thereby removing themselves from the gene pool. This years nominees are: Nominee No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News] An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriends windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut. Nominee No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette] James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, MI. was killed in March as he was trying to repair...

MARION, Ind. -- A 19-year-old man was trying to figure out why a pipe bomb he made did not explode when it blew up and killed him, police said. Russell E. Cox, of Marion, died Sunday after being taken to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne. He died from massive head and internal injuries, police said. Witnesses told investigators that Cox set the bomb to be triggered by a timer in an abandoned truck in a rural area outside the city midway between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. The bomb did not go off as planned, and Cox was returning to the...

Attempted Theft Knocks Out Power To 2,000 Customers. Somewhere in Metro Denver, someone is nursing an electrical burn... Investigators say a thief or thieves cut a fence to gain entry into an Intermountain Rural Electric Association substation ... Once inside, they started clipping electrical wires. Company officials said one of the wires was "hot." "When they cut that wire," said IREA Line Superintendent Les Turner, "they had a flash of about 7,000 volts." Turner said that flash had to cause injury. "It could be anywhere from a severe sunburn appearance to second or third degree burns on his hand." "We've...

Baltimore County police say a 45-year-old Baltimore man was hit by a train and killed as he sat on a lawnchair on the tracks. It happened around 8 p.m. Saturday near Martin Boulevard in Rosedale. Police say the man was visiting his brother, who is homeless and hangs out at a camping spot near the train tracks. They say the conductor spotted the man sitting on a lawnchair on the tracks and said he did not appear to realize a train was coming. Police are calling the incident an accident.

The San Francisco rookie police officer who accidentally shot himself to death fired his weapon while displaying for a female friend how officers are taught to avoid having their guns used against them, law enforcement authorities said Tuesday. The incident happened at 1:40 a.m. Saturday during a gathering of as many as 15 people at the San Mateo apartment of the 23-year-old officer, James Gustafson Jr. According to those familiar with the incident, Gustafson was showing his Police Department-issued semiautomatic pistol after removing the clip that stores the rounds. He explained that there are ways an officer can disable a...

Nolan Accused Of Stealing 33,000 Pounds Of Metal. Attorney General John Suthers said Timothy Allan Nolan pleaded guilty for violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. He was indicted by a grand jury this year for allegedly stealing nearly 33,000 pounds of metal from businesses in Denver, Longmont and Northglenn.

Christopher Hitchens is an essayist and pundit who loves a good fight and is never afraid to pick on someone his own size; but this time he's outdone himself. He's picked on God. The title of his new book, "God Is Not Great," is an intentionally inflammatory twist on "Allah Akbar." Indeed, he lambasts Islam as "not much more than a rather obvious and ill-arranged set of plagiarisms" from Judaism and Christianity. But Hitchens is an equal opportunity atheist. His reviles all religions and scorns anyone foolish enough to accept any idea on faith. A spate of atheist screeds has...

CRANBERRY, Pa. - A fingertip found at a bus stop by schoolchildren, touching off a police investigation, was claimed Friday by a man who injured his hand in a snowblower accident. The man contacted Cranberry police Friday, a day after the children found it. Police said the man told them the accident happened about two weeks ago when he was trying to clear a snowblower. He didn't bother to look for the finger; he just went to the hospital for treatment, said police Lt. Jeff Schueler. "He claimed it was his, but he didn't want to claim it, if you...

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- An animal lover was mauled to death by cheetahs after entering their cage at a zoo in northern Belgium, authorities and zoo officials said Monday. Karen Aerts, 37, of Antwerp, was found dead in the cage, Olmense Zoo spokesman Jan Libot said. Police said they ruled out any foul play. Authorities believe Aerts, a regular visitor to the zoo, hid in the park late Sunday until it closed and managed to find the keys to the cheetah cage. "Karen loved animals. Unfortunately the cheetahs betrayed her trust,"

Most drivers have done it - fiddled with a CD, talked on a cell phone or scolded a child while behind the wheel, getting momentarily distracted from the road. But a Yonkers woman who tried another mundane task while driving - putting on her makeup - paid a terrible price yesterday when she lost control of her car on the Henry Hudson Parkway in the Bronx and slammed into a tree, police said. Lusaed Perez, 34, went into cardiac arrest and later died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, police said. "There was makeup all over the air bag," said...

Circus tiger rips off man's arm as he takes pics 4 December 2006 MADRID — A circus tiger tore off a man's arm after he tried to take pictures of the animal. The 31-year-old Polish man was in a serious condition in hospital on Monday after the incident at a circus in Zafra, south-west Spain. He was looking for a job when he went into an area where the public is banned and tried to take the pictures with his mobile phone. When he got too close to the cage, he was attacked. Hospital officials said the man was in...

Man injured after launching firework from bottom 2 hours, 41 minutes ago LONDON (AFP) - A man was rushed to hospital in Britain with severe internal injuries after trying to launch a powerful firework from his bottom, an ambulance service spokesman said. It is thought that the 22-year-old could have been trying to imitate a scene from "Jackass: The Movie", a controversial film featuring a series of edgy pranks. Footage of the incident in Sunderland, north-east England, was captured on a mobile phone by a gang of youths and shows a white flash followed by hysterical laughter and a youth...

A Pakistani man has committed suicide outside his fiancee's home after he thought he accidentally killed her while trying to persuade her to get married early, police said Saturday. The man, Ahmed Ashraf, was shooting a gun in the air outside his fiancee's home in the southern city of Karachi on Friday as part of his efforts to persuade her to get married two months early when a stray bullet accidently hit her, police said. "He was so eager to get married he stood in front of his fiancee's house and started firing shots in the air to catch her...

Two people were killed and seven seriously wounded in Uganda when an artillery round blew up as a man tried to melt it down for scrap metal, police said on Saturday. Police cordoned off the area where the shell was found, searching for other munitions after the incident, which happened on Thursday in Amuria, a remote part of the once war-ravaged eastern Teso region. "We understand this man picked up a shell and tried to melt it for scrap. He put it in the fire and it exploded," Francis Agwoka, acting police chief for the region, told Reuters by telephone....