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[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim
during a hold-up in Long Beach, California , would-be robberJames
Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the
barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting
machine and, after a little shopping around, 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 gt 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 cinder block through a liquor store window,
grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it
over his head at the window. The cinder block 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 f the vehicle
declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever
had.

[LostInAnomie]

1. Where did you get this from?

As far as I can tell, although they are stupendously stupid people, only on of them would actually qualify for a Darwin Award. You have to actually kill yourself, or manage to injure yourself in a manner that would make it impossible for you to breed. Thereby, removing your genes from the gene pool.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. where else

an e-mail.

One of them is from my town. I am not saying which one. Perhaps this is not an official list. Don't know.

[Kutjara]

5. Very funny, but not official.

I remember reading about the Zimbabwean bus driver a few years back.

As another poster says, to win a Darwin, you have to improve the human gene pool by removing yourself from it. The usual method is death, but destruction of the reproductive organs will suffice.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. I think in the subject line it said something about Uffda?

whatever that means. I will amend my headline.

[Kutjara]

7. I googled Uffda and got:

Uffda is an exclamation of Scandinavian origin that is relatively common in the Upper Midwestern states of the United States. It roughly means "drats," "oops!" or "ouch!", especially if the "ouch!" is an empathetic one. Not sure quite how (or if) that's relevant, but it seems somehow fitting.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Tuesday Afternoon!

Oh, these are a riot!

Thank you so much for the much-needed laugh, sweetie!

:rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. You are most welcome.

:D