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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#101 Post by Capetonian » Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:36 pm

A man who claims to be a 'train enthusiast' sticks his head out of a Gatwick Express train doing 60 mph, and is killed when his head hits a trackside object. I wonder which part of the sign isn't clear :
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Sad for all concerned, and I would imagine a candidate for a Darwin Award.
It gets worse though.
Apparently it was the train company's fault.
Or maybe Robert Louis Stephenson should take the blame for building the first locomotive.
Come to think of it, who invented the wheel? Blame them.

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#102 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:46 pm

Yes Cape, I couldn't understand this when I read it. Dead f...ing irriot.
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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#103 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:57 pm

AIUI, the 'window' wasn't in the public part of the train, but in a Guard's van - which wouldn't normally be accessible to the general public, so I'm not sure that there would be a warning notice, as the purpose of the 'window' was for the guard to lean out and see what might be happening on the track (ie signals).

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#104 Post by OFSO » Thu Jul 18, 2019 5:24 pm

Does 'Common Sense' no longer play a rôle ?

Slight drift: an acquaintance of mine who found a bee in his trousers whilst travelling from London Victoria to Eastbourne pulled down his trousers, removed them, dropped the window (I believe he was by this time in the corridor) and waved them out of the carriage window. It is not known if this tactic was successful in removing the bee, as an express train coming the other way removed his trousers from his grasp and took them back to Victoria (on the front of the locomotive) in all probability. The crowd of mothers and children awaiting the return of their loved ones on Platform Two after a week working in London were treated to an unexpected sight, this being before the days of the mobile instrument when my acquaintance could have telephonically called his wife to bring a spare pair of trousers to the station.

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#105 Post by 4mastacker » Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:29 pm

Potential candidates


2/10 - Must try harder.
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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#106 Post by 4mastacker » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:50 pm

...and another candidate.

What a ***** hot idea
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#107 Post by Slasher » Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:44 pm

4mastacker wrote:
Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:50 pm
What a *sh*t* hot idea[/url]

He's gotta be doing that stuff as a joke 'stacker. No one does the same dumb sh!t twice.

Or do they? 🤔

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#108 Post by 4mastacker » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:53 am

Slasher wrote:
Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:44 pm
4mastacker wrote:
Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:50 pm
What a *sh*t* hot idea[/url]

He's gotta be doing that stuff as a joke 'stacker. No one does the same dumb sh!t twice.

Or do they? 🤔

I guess Darwin candidates go back to do it again just to check that they got it wrong the first time.
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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#109 Post by Ex-Ascot » Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:04 pm

No.1 is a classic.

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#110 Post by llondel » Wed Jul 24, 2019 3:55 pm

Just wondering how one manages to cut off one's own heads with a chainsaw. I guess it requires the perfect angle from which to strike and rely o the momentum to keep it moving, or fix the chainsaw in position and run into it.

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#111 Post by llondel » Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:46 pm

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bed ... s-49192865
A Cambridge University student fell to her death in Madagascar after opening the door of a small plane in mid-air, police have said.

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#112 Post by Capetonian » Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:58 pm

Apparently it was suicide, so rather sad, and doesn't qualify.

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#113 Post by Rwy in Sight » Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:50 pm

I read about the fall. So sad.

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#114 Post by OFSO » Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:20 pm

Mystery is why. And doubt we'll ever know. Incident over, move on.

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#115 Post by barkingmad » Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:36 pm

Allegedly possible side-effects of anti-malaria medication?

Cambridge student who died in Madagascar 'opened plane door' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... s-49192865

Some in this forum can no doubt testify to the wierd experiences having had to take this poison as part of the job flying into & out of or based in cesspits various?

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#116 Post by barkingmad » Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:45 pm

Gatwick Express victim should possibly have known better in view of this;

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... Hxk5HrWGRm

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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#117 Post by ian16th » Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:50 pm

The Malaria Risk zone of Southern Africa

The whole of Madagascar should also be included.

The side effects of anti malaria drugs affect people differently, most people I know don't bother. But I've never heard of anyone having any LSD type symptoms.

I live about 10Km from Port Shepstone, outside of all normally affected area's. Maybe the Ex A's have more experience?
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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#118 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:44 am

I would suggest that this article is using old data. We have virtually eliminated malaria in Botswana. https://reliefweb.int/report/botswana/b ... limination

As far as anti malaria prophylaxis are concerned you can't take them for more than 3 months without the risk of damage to the liver. Malaria carrying mossies tend to be in areas of population and stagnant water. We are in the middle of nowhere and the water is usually moving. When we lived just outside town you would get eaten alive outside in the evenings. Here there are very few of the little buggers and probably not malaria carrying. At the end of the day the trick is not to get bitten. Even mossie repellent is not good for you long term.

The possible hallucinogenic drug is Mefloquine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4097020/
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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#119 Post by ian16th » Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:57 am

There was a local case where I guy was bitten by a mossie, and infected by malaria, in Pretoria, just after a holiday season.

It was assumed that the mossie had been brought to Pretoria in a minibus taxi, probably from Mozambique.
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Re: Darwin Awards 2019

#120 Post by Woody » Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:12 am

Skegness is malaria free, maybe more people should go on holiday there :ymdevil:

Edit- Perhaps more people are going to Skegness
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The group said Super Break hotel-only holidays would be cancelled and people currently on holiday might have to pay again.
It said it "anticipated" bookings through Late Rooms would be secure.
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