From the Darwin Awards
www.darwinawards.com... :
(Late 1989s, Australia) A rather impressionable student of kung fu listened with rapt attention when his instructor dramatically informed the class,
"Now that you have reached this level in your training, you can kill wild animals with your bare hands!"
The martial arts trainee took the statement as gospel, and headed to the Melbourne zoo to test his mettle with the wildest animal of all: the lion. In
the dead of night, he slipped into the zoo, leapt into the lion enclosure, and engaged a suitable king of the jungle in combat.
He would probably have lost a one-on-one fight, but he never got to try. His naive fight plan didn't account for the enthusiasm of the lion's pride
for a tender intruder; nor did it give sufficient weight to the possibility that his instructor didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
Zoo employees found his remains -- two arms and hands -- the following morning, with shreds of red fur grasped tightly in his fingers.
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ALSO from the Darwin awards:
(12 January 2003, Philippines) Cockfighting is a popular gambling sport in the Philippines. Roosters are aggressive creatures that fight one another
in the wild to establish a "pecking order." When their natural arsenals of claws and beaks are supplemented with sharp steel spurs, these feathered
animals are transformed into deadly weapons. A trained rooster is an extremely vicious creature.
Usually the fury of an enraged rooster is directed against another rooster in an arena surrounded by avid spectators. But at a recent match in
Zamboanga, a cock owner was the target of his own bird. He had just strapped razor-sharp gaffs onto its legs when he lost control of the animal. The
bird turned on him, and in "one rapid shuffle," its gaffs sliced through major arteries in his thigh and groin.
Despite routinely handling razor-wielding roosters, the man was not wearing protective clothing. He bled to death en route to the hospital.
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People are so d*mn stupid sometimes that it makes we want to kill myself so I don't have to be around them.
Anyone ever seen that episode of Family Guy (my favorite show) where Peter is poking an aligator on the head with a stick saying
"hey mister gator, wake up, wake up, wake up..." and then a Koala flies in from off screen at an impossible speed and latches directly onto Peter's
face!?!? OH MY GOD THAT WAS HILARIOUS!