Darwin Awards 2024

[PeteXXX]

May I start with the 2024 Darwin Awards with......

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[matticus]

Very much a worthy nominee.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Curiously, I can see this on the tablet I'm using
But, I can't see it in the page listings via my iPhone....

 

[Supersuperleeds]

If you google it, there is a report from 2022 showing this, so he should be disqualified from this years award

 

[rikki]

If you google it, there is a report from 2022 showing this, so he should be disqualified from this years award

A Darwin Award is one of the few awards that you cannot win more than once.

 

[HMS_Dave]

Happened right at the arse end of 2023 and it isn't the first and won't be the last, this one, the recipient gets to live to tell the tale...

Woman takes a concealed gun into an MRI machine and gets shot in buttock

I hope she was sitting when they explain how lucky she was...

 

[stephec]

Happened right at the arse end of 2023 and it isn't the first and won't be the last, this one, the recipient gets to live to tell the tale...

Woman takes a concealed gun into an MRI machine and gets shot in buttock

I hope she was sitting when they explain how lucky she was...

Why did she need a gun in there, was the doctor Harold Shipman?

 

[presta]

Happened right at the arse end of 2023 and it isn't the first and won't be the last, this one, the recipient gets to live to tell the tale...

Woman takes a concealed gun into an MRI machine and gets shot in buttock

I hope she was sitting when they explain how lucky she was...

You can only wonder at what she thought she was concealing it from.

 

[HMS_Dave]

Man dies after lighting a firework on his head dressed as Uncle Sam during 4th of July celebrations.

 

[matticus]

Happened right at the arse end of 2023 and it isn't the first and won't be the last, this one, the recipient gets to live to tell the tale...

Woman takes a concealed gun into an MRI machine and gets shot in buttock

I hope she was sitting when they explain how lucky she was...

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[Time Waster]

The Darwin Award never used to strike me as laughter at the expense of someone who has died. It does now though. Just when is it right to laugh about someone who has died? We all do it though, a more extreme form of Schadenfreude perhaps?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Happened right at the arse end of 2023 and it isn't the first and won't be the last, this one, the recipient gets to live to tell the tale...

Woman takes a concealed gun into an MRI machine and gets shot in buttock

I hope she was sitting when they explain how lucky she was...

When I had an MRI I had to hand over all metallic stuff including IIRC my wedding ring

 

[HMS_Dave]

The Darwin Award never used to strike me as laughter at the expense of someone who has died. It does now though. Just when is it right to laugh about someone who has died? We all do it though, a more extreme form of Schadenfreude perhaps?

If it's good enough for horrible histories then it's good enough for me.

 

[HMS_Dave]

When I had an MRI I had to hand over all metallic stuff including IIRC my wedding ring

Same. I had one last year when I had a blocked bile duct thanks to my knackered gall bladder.

 

[markemark]

The Darwin Award never used to strike me as laughter at the expense of someone who has died. It does now though. Just when is it right to laugh about someone who has died? We all do it though, a more extreme form of Schadenfreude perhaps?

I find it a little unsavoury. Someone has died. They will leave behind family. They're (although not exclusively) idiots rather than nasty people. Ridiculing their death online which their family will see forever is not particularly nice.