OT, SIAP: Darwin Award Nominee, Man Shot Dead Staging Fake Robbery

[LionJim]

Or don't iron your clothes while wearing them.

The way this thread is going, I suspect you didn’t make this one up on the fly.

 

[HDog1]

i think it was John Smoltz - that injured himself ironing a shirt while wearing it

 

[harbest]

One of my all time favorites.

1995 Darwin Award: JATO Rocket Car

Darwin Award: JATO Rocket Car: The Arizona Highway Patrol, when they came upon a pile of smoldering metal imbedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road, at the apex of a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable

darwinawards.com

 

[Woodpecker]

One of my all time favorites.

1995 Darwin Award: JATO Rocket Car

Darwin Award: JATO Rocket Car: The Arizona Highway Patrol, when they came upon a pile of smoldering metal imbedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road, at the apex of a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable

darwinawards.com

Imagine if that had really happened!

 

[harbest]

Imagine if that had really happened!

Well, it is on the internet.

 

[Woodpecker]

Well, it is on the internet.

 

[IANit]

I decided, just for shits and giggles, to research the etymology of “nincompoop,” and discovered that it was in Dr. Johnson’s original dictionary. It comes from the Latin non compos mentis, “not of the right mind.” Well, we all learned something today!

I think we probably have more than a few nincompoops on this board, then.