Reply to: Darwin Award candidate of the day

[Zigenare]

And another one: -

Boy critical after scooter crash on Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham | News Shopper

Turns out the lad has 3 kids with 2 girls*. Not a candidate for a Darwin award.


*Probably.

[BrilloPad]

And another one: -

Boy critical after scooter crash on Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham | News Shopper

[BrilloPad]

Emily Hartridge: TV presenter and YouTube star dies in crash - BBC News

Those electric scooters are a f**king pain. Though perhaps not as bad as scooters that stay at the Heathrow Thistle....

[DimPrawn]

I once caught me wotsit in my flies once, but never had a penknife handy to cut the blighter off. Had to make do with carefully unzipping it.

[beaker]

I was working on my van engine once and a gust of the wind caused the bonnet to slam down on my little finger and latch. It was stuck in a gap about 5mm wide. When somebody finally rescued me, my finger was a quarter of its normal thickess. Oddly, it was back to normal in 10 minutes and I never even had a bruise.

Did you consider cutting it off with your pocketknife?

[xoggoth]

I was working on my van engine once and a gust of the wind caused the bonnet to slam down on my little finger and latch. It was stuck in a gap about 5mm wide. When somebody finally rescued me, my finger was a quarter of its normal thickess. Oddly, it was back to normal in 10 minutes and I never even had a bruise.

[EqualOpportunities]

Seems to be all the rage to chop your own limbs off. Anyone here given it a try?

I snapped my banjo string years ago - does that count?

[hugebrain]

Seems to be all the rage to chop your own limbs off. Anyone here given it a try?

That's where the term coyote ugly comes from. However since you just got laid you probably get disqualified from the Darwin award.

[beaker]

There was a story doing the rounds about a fisherman who did a similar thing.

Chopping his own arm off, not the playing with rocks thing.

Found it, Wikipedia, I love you!

Seems to be all the rage to chop your own limbs off. Anyone here given it a try?

[Moose423956]

Don't worry he's still thick though.

And it's no accident as you don't put your hand/arm in moving machines.

Thanks SueEllen. By the way, what's your favourite letter?

[SueEllen]

Alright already. So he's not a Darwin Award candidate. You've made your point.

Don't worry he's still thick though.

And it's no accident as you don't put your hand/arm in moving machines.

[Moose423956]

Alright already. So he's not a Darwin Award candidate. You've made your point.

[Churchill]

Not really a Darwin candidate, otherwise you could include people who die crossing the road.

Anyway, he is technically disqualified because he has procreated (3 times), and he would only get the award when he dies.

However, it reminds me of someone who did something similar when a rock fell on his arm in the wilderness somewhere. He was trapped for something like three days before deciding it was his arm or death.

There was a story doing the rounds about a fisherman who did a similar thing.

Chopping his own arm off, not the playing with rocks thing.

Found it, Wikipedia, I love you!

In 2007, 66-year old Al Hill amputated his leg below the knee using his pocketknife after the leg got stuck beneath a felled tree he was cutting in California. [1]
In 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston amputated his forearm using his pocketknife and breaking and tearing the two bones, after the arm got stuck under a boulder when hiking in Utah.
Also in 2003, an Australian coal miner amputated his own arm with a Stanley knife after it became trapped when the front-end loader he was driving overturned three kilometers underground. [2]
In the 1990s, a crab fisherman got his arm caught in the winch during a storm and had to amputate it at the shoulder, as reported in The New Englander.

[wendigo100]

Not really a Darwin candidate, otherwise you could include people who die crossing the road.

Anyway, he is technically disqualified because he has procreated (3 times), and he would only get the award when he dies.

However, it reminds me of someone who did something similar when a rock fell on his arm in the wilderness somewhere. He was trapped for something like three days before deciding it was his arm or death.

[DimPrawn]

I meant the fact that he put his hand in a moving machine, got his glove caught which dragged his fingers in, started to cut off his fingers, that caused a fire, then his hand started melting. Pillock!

I bet looking back on it, he wishes he hadn't.

Not Darwin at all. Just an unfortunate accident.

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