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Re: Darwin Awards

#741 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:18 pm

llondel wrote:
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Bomb Squad or Bum Squad?
What ever, but a real PITA

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Re: Darwin Awards

#742 Post by 4mastacker » Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:00 pm

Michelle Dewberry covered this on GB News. How the hell she kept a straight face, I do not know - unlike one of her fellow panellists.

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#743 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:59 pm

She didn't quite.

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#744 Post by bob2s » Sat Dec 04, 2021 9:51 pm

Rectum she said, bloody near killed him he said.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#745 Post by llondel » Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:13 pm

I think she did amazingly well to get through all of that with no more than a bit of a smile, which was probably a reaction to those around her losing it. I suspect she practised that over and over again so she could do it with a straight face and then, as was alleged, didn't warn the other panellists it was coming.

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#746 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:18 am

bob2s wrote:
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Rectum she said, bloody near killed him he said.
She said the Bomb Squad rushed.....

A bums rush perhaps

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Re: Darwin Awards

#747 Post by Woody » Mon Dec 27, 2021 1:13 pm

When all else fails, read the instructions.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#748 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Dec 27, 2021 1:35 pm

Woody, you have to admire the Daily Wail sub editors, don't know whether coming or going.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#749 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:12 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
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Woody, you have to admire the Daily Wail sub editors, don't know whether coming or going.
+1
I caught that too. :-o #-o
Even with a photo they can't tell! L-) =))

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#750 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:20 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
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Woody, you have to admire the Daily Wail sub editors, don't know whether coming or going.
The nincompoop who wrote that article doesn't know their arse from their radiator, unless, of course, both ends of the car were damaged?
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#752 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:54 pm

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Aagh!
I have just listened to that video, and am now tormented by the horror of the things described therein, I cannot unhear, nor can I unthink the unthinkable nature of them! Fie UP, that you should have caused this innocent soul to hear of such unspeakable abominations! @-) :-o ;)))
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Re: Darwin Awards

#753 Post by Woody » Mon Dec 27, 2021 4:51 pm

Thanks TGG, I was just about to press the play button, but I’m not sure that I will now :-bd
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Re: Darwin Awards

#754 Post by llondel » Mon Dec 27, 2021 5:08 pm

I've known about the incident for years, but never heard that broadcast description of it.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#755 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:18 pm

Dishonorable Mention

Tiger fatally shot after biting worker’s arm at Florida zoo, authorities say
A deputy shot the tiger after a worker for a cleaning service put his arm through fencing and the tiger grabbed it, according to preliminary information.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ti ... -rcna10384

A cleaning worker was seriously injured by a tiger at the Naples Zoo in Florida on Wednesday after the man apparently put his arm into the animal’s enclosure, authorities said.

Eko, an 8-year-old Malayan tiger, was shot by a sheriff's deputy and died, the zoo said.

Deputies were called to the zoo, which was closed at the time, around 6:30 p.m. and found the animal with the worker’s arm in its mouth, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said.

“The first deputy on scene kicked the enclosure and tried to get the tiger to release the man’s arm from its mouth but the deputy was forced to shoot the animal,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

The worker, a man in his 20s, was seriously injured and taken to a hospital, the sheriff’s office said.

After being shot, the tiger retreated into its enclosure and was sedated by a veterinarian so it could be safely examined, the sheriff's office said. A zoo representative later said the animal died.

The sheriff’s office initially said the tiger was 4 years old.

The man worked for a third-party cleaning service hired to clean restrooms and the gift shop and was not supposed to be in that area, the sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff's office said it appeared the man was trying to pet or feed the tiger, but noted the information was preliminary.

It appears the man "traversed an initial fence barrier and put his arm through the fencing of the tiger enclosure," before the tiger grabbed it, the sheriff's office said.

The Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission is also investigating the incident, that agency said.

Eko came to the Naples Zoo in December 2019, a zoo representative said. It is the only Malayan tiger at the zoo.

The tiger previously lived at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, the Naples Zoo said in a February 2020 blog post.

The Malayan tiger is classified as critically endangered and there are only around 200 estimated to live in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

The guy should have been shot instead and left as a holiday treat for the tigers.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#756 Post by OFSO » Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:23 pm

I agree utterly and completely with that last statement.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#757 Post by Boac » Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:25 pm

Why bother to shoot him?

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#758 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:27 pm

It is the humane thing to do.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#759 Post by Boac » Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:03 pm

Why be humane? How else would he get his award?

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Re: Darwin Awards

#760 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:07 pm

Good point.
Either way, though, still a dishonorable mention. :))

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