Darwin Awards

[Slasher]

Ford was nude when he was discovered, but his clothes were not found at his nearby car or at the scene, officials said.

Is eating rags a symptom of meth overdose or did said gator rape his dinna before consumption?

[Capetonian]

Here's a potential candidate :

In this shocking video, a lady is seen at a Kroger's service station filling a plastic bag with gasoline then placing the bag of gas in the trunk of her car. I can't, for the life of me, figure out what this lady was thinking.

This type of behavior certainly fuels a lot of stereotypes. I don't know how you can be an adult with a driver's license and not know it's dangerous to fill a plastic shopping bag with gasoline then place it in the trunk of your Honda.

She looks to be wearing an apron, like those who work in the service industry. I wonder what kind of unsafe food practices he has. Scary!

[Slasher]

Cor’ blimey imagine being married to that!

Hon...did you take the car in to get its oil topped up like I asked?
Yep but I did it myself and saved us the servicing cost.
Ah. That explains the thick smoke coming from the radiator.

Or employing it -

I’ll have a Pena colada please.
Would you prefer rum or petrol in that?
Petrol??!!
Well it comes from the Premium pump so it’ll cost a little extra.

[ian16th]

As one of the twitter responses says: 'Remember, their vote is equal to yours.'

[llondel]

Given the way a lot of plastics dissolve in octane, I hope it was a different type of plastic.

[Slasher]

The only plastic thing that’s dissolved is her brain mate.

[CharlieOneSix]

Potential candidate.......Driver 'blows up' car with 'excessive' use of air freshener.

A driver caused an explosion in his car when he lit a cigarette after spraying air freshener. He used "excessive" amounts of the aerosol scent before sparking up, according to firefighters. Gas from the spray ignited, blew out the windscreen and windows and buckled the doors but the man escaped with only minor injuries.

BBC News Yorkshire

[llondel]

Potential candidate.......Driver 'blows up' car with 'excessive' use of air freshener.

A driver caused an explosion in his car when he lit a cigarette after spraying air freshener. He used "excessive" amounts of the aerosol scent before sparking up, according to firefighters. Gas from the spray ignited, blew out the windscreen and windows and buckled the doors but the man escaped with only minor injuries.

BBC News Yorkshire

The car won't need an air freshener now, plenty of additional ventilation.

[ian16th]

What is the propellant in these aerosols?

[llondel]

Usually some volatile organic compound, often with a flashpoint lower than petrol.

[Slasher]

My belief is there’s death by misadventure, then there’s death by sheer unadulterated lunacy.

Misadventure is something that has gone wrong in what was a planned safe event (slipping and falling while professionally cliff-scaling, aerobatic prang caused by previously unknown aircraft control defect etc).

The thing is misadventure is not in itself an indication of survival instinct. We risk dying of same every day - even by just crossing the street - as demonstrated with Ap getting knocked down by an idiot out of nowhere while using a lighted pedestrian crossing in BKK. And she’s as smart and aware as they come.

Darwin Awarding is something else entirely. It’s a test of survival IQ wrecklessly taken using one’s life.

[Hydromet]

Re the aerosol explosion, mate's mother had a can of the stuff they used to make for emergency puncture repairs in the boot of her car. It was in an aerosol can that you pushed onto the valve and it inflated the tyre and put in stuff that either lined the tyre or filled it with foam - can't remember which. Anyway, she'd had the can there for years, so it was probably a bit rusty. One hot day it exploded, blowing the back of the rear seat into the car and liberally coating the car's interior with rubbery goo.

[Pontius Navigator]

What is the propellant in these aerosols?

Never seen a James Bond movie? I think Sean Connery used one to effect.

[ian16th]

What is the propellant in these aerosols?

Never seen a James Bond movie? I think Sean Connery used one to effect.

I thought that in these days of 'elf & safety that dangerous materials would be banned.

[unifoxos]

All materials are dangerous to some 2@s, can't ban the lot.

[PHXPhlyer]

Runner-up award.
Could have gotten full honors had she been able to get the other motor going.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/17 ... t-n1104236

PP

[llondel]

In the UK that wouldn't be theft unless the aircraft was written off. Theft is "taking with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of the use" of something, which is why they had to introduce the Taking Without Consent offence for those oiks who stole cars and then abandoned them in a recoverable state.

[boing]

Aerosol contents are used a propellant in potato launchers. Fill a piece of tough plastic pipe with hair spray ram down potato, get some moron to light the fuse. Very impressive launch with hell of a bang.

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[bob2s]

The above is how to earn your Darwin Award (Instructions Included)

[G-CPTN]

An acquaintance who is a retired teacher told the story of a boy who found a 'bullet' and wondered whether it was live, so he took it home and fixed it in the vice and struck it with a hammer.
It was, and the resulting explosion took out one of his eyes.