Mini-Darwin nominees
I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking that the people who hurt themselves are simply too stupid to deserve sympathy—unless they were small children.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in Berlin said on Wednesday they had arrested two men on suspicion of placing cement-filled soccer balls around the city and inviting people to kick them. At least two people injured themselves by kicking the balls, which were chained to lampposts and trees alongside the spray-painted message: “Can you kick it?”
Police said they had identified a 26-year-old and a 29-year-old and had found a workshop in their apartment where they made the balls. The two are accused of causing serious physical injury, dangerous obstruction of traffic and causing injury through negligence, police said.
Judging from the lack of description of the victims, I’d venture a guess that they were simply stupid grownups who never learned how not to fall for dumb practical jokes.
July 5th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
There’s a better one. (I saw it up at Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs.) It seems a car full of “journalists” for Al-Jezeera blew up in Paliland. There’s very little news on this. I don’t think it was the IDF. But a “typical” work accident. Since the car ride followed a story of how women were being given suicide belts inside Beit Hanoun? Did you hear anything? With the reporters inside the car, whose gonna report the Car Swarm?
July 6th, 2006 at 12:36 am
And this has to do with stupid pranks how?