Many of you are probably familiar with the Darwin Awards. For those that aren't, the premise is this:
A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises
Honoring those who improve the species...by
accidentally removing themselves from it!
Some of the stories are hilarious in a tragically funny way.This is one of my favourites:
(28 February 2000, Texas) A Houston man earned a succinct lesson in gun safety when he played Russian roulette with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Rashaad, nineteen, was visiting friends when he announced his intention to play the deadly game. He apparently did not realize that a semiautomatic pistol, unlike a revolver, automatically inserts a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. His chance of winning a round of Russian roulette was zero, as he quickly discovered.
And another good one:
(2 August 2002, Kansas) An Olathe man was struck and killed by a train after his vehicle broke down on Interstate 35. His attempts to repair his car had failed, so he stepped away from the busy freeway to call for help. As luck would have it, he chose to stand on the train tracks paralleling the road. When the train engineer spotted him standing on the tracks, the man was holding a cell phone to one ear and cupping his hand to the other ear to block the noise of the oncoming locomotive.
Anyways, have a look at the website, lots of funny stories:
http://www.darwinawards.com/