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2010 DARWIN AWARDS ANNOUNCED

> 8th Place

> In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water

after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve

his car keys.

> 7th Place

> A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran",

accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.

> 6th Place

> While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection

from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom, when it

collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used

their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It

took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones

was pronounced dead at a hospital.

> 5th Place

> Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a

bicycle shop he was robbing. Death was caused when the long torch he had

placed in his mouth to keep his hands free, rammed into the base of his

skull as he hit the floor.

> 4th Place

> Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who

said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and

pull the trigger.

> 3rd Place

> After walking around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door,

a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store. The

shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the

counter.. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up

and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk

promptly returned fire and several customers also drew their guns and fired.

The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene

investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The

subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds

From 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt.

> HONORABLE MENTION

> Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at

a.m. So they lit a stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what

would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed

> RUNNER UP

> Kerry

 Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said

they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle

of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped

along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 a.m. Upon arrival at the midpoint of

the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham,

who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of

lineman's cable lay nearby. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and

then Tied the other (!) to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the

cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived

his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby

 fishermen.

Bingham's foot was never located.

> AND THE WINNER IS...

> Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn , Germany) fed his constipated

elephant 22 doses of

 animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs

and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief. Investigators

say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an

olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded.

> The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected

 defecation knocked Mr.

Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant

continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him.

> It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves.... 'Sxxx

happens'

> AS ALWAYS, WE THANK THESE PEOPLE FOR REMOVING THEMSELVES FROM THE GENE

POOL!

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