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Idiot Cuts Electric Cord with Scissors

Posted by ralph on February 4, 2010

Looks like we have another nominee for a Darwin Award. Via Live Leak:

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Bank Robbers Who Blew Themselves Up Top Darwin Awards

Posted by ralph on January 8, 2010

Via the Courier-Mail:
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TWO bank robbers who blew themselves up trying to make a sizable withdrawal from an ATM have been declared the 2009 winners of the Darwin Awards.

Organisers say the annual “prize” is given to “those doing the most to improve the human gene pool … by removing themselves from it”.

This year the dubious first place went to the pair of bungling thieves in Belgium who wildly overestimated the amount of dynamite they needed to rob a bank.

They both were killed when the blast demolished the entire building the ATM was housed in.

Police only found the body of the second robber some twelve hours after digging through the debris. They had initially assumed he had made a getaway.

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