Posts tagged ‘Darwin Award’
Just Missed Out on that Coveted Darwin Award
A 27-year-old Avondale man has been arrested on suspicion of causing
a massive power outage last summer in Goodyear's Estrella community.The outage knocked out power to nearly 4,000 homes for 19 hours June 18, 2007, when Goodyear's high reached 115 degrees....
According to police, officers arrested the suspect on a tip from the
public. He reportedly told investigators he cut down the pole because
he enjoyed the sparks it made.
Beware Articles Without Links
Several sites have announced what purports to be a Darwin Award winner this year. I saw the link first at Q&O, but the same story has been on Pajamas Media and several other sources. I thought the story was awesome, but was suspicious in that too-good-to-be-true way, particularly when the original source had "sources" but no links. This is always a red flag for me.
So I took a key phrase from a quote in the article, in this case "on that bridge when Thurston shot" and plugged it into google. The second link is to the "official" Darwin Awards site, which tagged this story as an urban legend over 10 years ago. Looking down the Google search, it appears this old chestnut comes back in 2-3 year cycles.
Marines Destroy Maytag of Mass Destruction
Via Dave Berry, it is lucky that these guys didn't get a Darwin Award, so why am I so jealous? Other great moments in thinking with your y-chromosome here and here.
