You business or the hole-owner's?
I think putting his hand over it to protect his girlfriend is quite sweet although a pillow or book would've been better. The instinct to protect her at least is nice even if the implementation and need to do so was laced with idiocy.
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I can't put my finger (ha) on it but feel there's something quite Rod-Hull-and-Emu-esque about those photos.
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Here's another potential candidate:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/schoolboy-...7.html#6ZVJ2LA
Doesn't say if it was his hole finger or the one next to it.
For dear old Freako, it's a story about some dense kid who lit a firework, tried to put it out with his mouth, then blew a finger off.
Possibly NSFW with graphic images of what happens if you're a potential Darwin Award winner.
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Darwin moment
Half of Mount Ontake victims killed by erupting volcano in Japan were found clutching phones | Daily Mail Online
Shouldn't laughOne last selfie… that cost their lives: More than half the victims killed by erupting volcano in Japan were found clutching smartphones with photos of lava coming towards them
More than half of Mount Ontake victims were still clutching phones
Others had taken photos of the ash cloud moments before they died
The eruption left at least 57 dead, six people remain unaccounted forTags: None
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