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.
