The Darwin Committee Has A Lot Of Nominees This March.
First, the bumbling burglar.
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Law enforcement officials in Redding, California, are asking for any information that could help lead to the arrest of a man who recently attempted to break into a grocery store on Airport Road.
To aid potential tipsters, investigators
released CCTV footage of the burglary attempt that may actually do more harm than good.
That's because anyone who watches it will be unable to quit laughing long enough to actually pick up the phone and call in their tip.
http://youtu.be/Kvhxo0iBJck
Next Post for #2.
Teen Fails at a Redo of YouTube Escalator Helicopter Stunt...
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While at the Colorado Springs Mall last week, Joe Szklarski decided to try the "escalator helicopter" trick he saw someone do on YouTube.
And, as we all know, people attempting to recreate things they see on YouTube are always successful.
At injuring themselves and/or others.
"So my friend broke the escalator at the mall,"
Joe's pal Andrew Nichols told 9NEWS. "$3700 in fees."
Sure, that's a lot of money to an 18-year-old, but there's an upside: "It still is as funny as crap," said Andrew, who filmed the predictable failure, "and I've seen it so many times!"
The original vid is at the link.
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http://youtu.be/XvENUcE5g40
Next for #3.
Fried and Fricassied Crossing the Subway Tracks.
Wrong subway platform? No problem right? Just cross the tracks. Mind the 600 V DC third rail...
HEY! There's a light at the end of the tunnel!
OOPS.
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Early Tuesday evening, a teenager
celebrating his 18th birthday was hit and killed by subway train on Manhattan's Upper West Side as he and his two friends attempted to cross the tracks. One friend made it across while the other still hadn't left the other platform. According to the
New York Daily News, both surviving teens saw the train hit their friend, their knees buckling at the sight.
Witnesses described a gruesome scene.
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"He got smacked by a 2 express train," said Bronx resident Anthony Escobar, 36. "He got fried and mangled."
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"I heard the conductor yell, like give out a scream or a moan," said John D'Alessandro, who was in the first car of the train.
The subway came to a screeching halt and lost its power. Panicked passengers waited anxiously in the dark for more than an hour, as cops and firefighters tried to salvage the victim's body.
"I saw the arms, blood on the hands," said Leola Browder, 28. "Some people were upset and scared. Others were more worried about going where they had to go."
NBC New York
reports the teen and his friends, all from Long Island, were on their way back to Penn Station when they realized they were on the wrong platform. Instead of walking up the stairs to the other side, the teenagers attempted to cross the tracks, ignoring the shouts from other straphangers. At that same time a northbound 2 train was entering the station. The motorman spotted the teenagers and tried to slow the train, but by that time it was too late; the train clipped the 18 year old, who died at the scene.
Which do you think is the most eligible Darwin nominee of the month?
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Oh and here's Nominee #1 with the Benny Hill Chase soundtrack (Yackity Sax)
http://youtu.be/h9Lxm6Vo5w8
Late Entry: Messing with a ¾ ton buffalo.
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In case you needed yet another reason not to taunt animals 10 times larger than you, here you go: A man visiting Antelope Island State Park in Utah provoked a 1500 pound bison and the bison, being a bison,
rammed the man into a nearby fence.
"This person is very, very, very lucky that he wasn't killed," said assistant park manager John Sullivan.
Sullivan said the man seemed uninjured immediately after the ordeal, and "other than being a little dusty ... embarrassed and shell-shocked," he was "none the worse for wear."
Yes, shell-shocked seems to be a good way to describe the feeling of surviving an attack from an animal that weighs almost a ton. Witnesses to the attack said the man went out of his way to attract the attention of the bison, which was on its way elsewhere.
"The [bison] had gone through the gate section that's located real close to where he got hit and looked like he was going to run off the field," Wayne Ebenroth of Boise, Idaho, said during an interview Wednesday on KSL NewsRadio. "He had to have done something to catch the [bison's] attention, because that's when he turned around and decided to pay him a visit."
Ebenroth is the same person who snapped the above photo. He started taking pictures when he noticed several people gathering near the bison and – thankfully for us all – didn't stop until after the attack. ""[The bison] just was not comfortable with how close he was hanging out with him," Ebenroth said.
Common Sense is anything but.
Man Narrowly Escapes Death After Taunting 1500 Pound Bison
