The Shallow End of the Gene Pool?

[buggyone]

Once in a while, you see a newspaper article that just seems as though some people are candidates for the Darwin Award. I copied this one off the Fox site. It definitely qualifies.

Memphis Zoo officials have banned a woman after saying she climbed over a barrier to the enclosure where lions are kept and tried to feed them cookies.

Does anyone else have any good candidates?

[Mikeod]

Well, there is the woman in St. Augustine that was standing on the tracks taking pictures of the train that hit her. Fortunately, it was going slow. She was dragged along, and eventually airlifted to a trauma center.

[Taltarzac725]

2012 Darwin Award: Smokin' Hot Sauce! (http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2012-03.html)

Here's one of the Darwins- an honorable mention of a man who took a drink from a jar not knowing what it was, spit the fluid out, and then tried to calm himself by lighting a cigarette. It was a jar of gasoline.

I once submitted myself for a Darwin award when I was getting absolutely nowhere with my fight for survivors/victims access to practical information and everything I tried seemed to backfire. Not sure when this was but probably around 2004. If you name someone, I probably e-mailed them at some point. I was being besmirched constantly by a cybersmearer on Findlaw's many message boards back in 2004 and facing a baseless lawsuit from the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel and had seemed to have burned all my bridges not only back into the law librarianship profession but also into the Tampa Bay area librarianship community. Finding TOTV was the start of rebuilding bridges with my 224/613 project which I had already in 2004 been involved with since mid 1993 using those numbers. I was at a loss for ideas.

[mickey100]

How about the guy who was recently burglarizing someone's home, and during the middle of the burglary, stopped to check his Facebook page on the victim's computer. He inadvertently left his Facebook page up, and that's how the police nailed him.

[kittygilchrist]

guy on scooter, upper right...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqg-zugZdI0

[Taltarzac725]

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/879072-post7.html

I never did learn what happened with this man. His last name is so common that I have had a hard time locating him or his brothers or very attractive sister who soon married a wealthy rancher after college graduation or maybe it was after some college. I did run into the attractive sister while she was a student at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). She was also from my high school of Earl Wooster High. I am on these various Facebook pages occasionally but cannot find many people I know even though I did run into a few UNR Philosophy professors when I returned to Reno, NV in 1989 for the annual Law Librarian convention where I was introduced as the cataloger of all the WESTLAW files for a national project we were doing in tandem with the State University of New York at Buffalo which was cataloging the LEXIS files.

I AM hoping that neither Chuck nor his very attractive sister Marie reads TOTV or lives in the Villages. You never know.

I believe I climbed Rattlesnake Mt in my bare feet on a dare from a member of this family or their friends so I am not one to really talk about stupid things done in the hormonal rush of youth.

[graciegirl]

Once in a while, you see a newspaper article that just seems as though some people are candidates for the Darwin Award. I copied this one off the Fox site. It definitely qualifies.

Memphis Zoo officials have banned a woman after saying she climbed over a barrier to the enclosure where lions are kept and tried to feed them cookies.

Does anyone else have any good candidates?


Yes. ;)

[Rags123]

Once in a while, you see a newspaper article that just seems as though some people are candidates for the Darwin Award. I copied this one off the Fox site. It definitely qualifies.

Memphis Zoo officials have banned a woman after saying she climbed over a barrier to the enclosure where lions are kept and tried to feed them cookies.

Does anyone else have any good candidates?

Actually, none to make fun of on a message board.

[Taltarzac725]

Yes. ;)

Maybe a wise decision, graciegirl. I do not know what comes up when you Google graciegirl but I do know what comes up when you Google Taltarzac725. Or, more on point, could still come up in caches. Or, what someone may have copied and filed away under Taltarzac.

You can never really erase what's on the Internet and never really seem to have control over the image projected.

Do you think this cartoon could inspire anyone to challenge fate so much as to perhaps warrant the shame of a Darwin Award? http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/23/Floridian/Road_trip__The_family.shtml

I like this one--

"Your mother-in-law notified authorities through her cell phone. We demand you release her from the top roof rack storage immediately."

JoAnn Hartung

Palm Harbor

--see above cartoon. You might be a potential nominee for a Darwin Award if you did this to your mother-in-law. (check the cartoon)

[dplars]

How about posting mindless stickers on P.O. boxes? As if our environment is not cluttered up enough.

[CraigC]

Once in a while, you see a newspaper article that just seems as though some people are candidates for the Darwin Award. I copied this one off the Fox site. It definitely qualifies.

Memphis Zoo officials have banned a woman after saying she climbed over a barrier to the enclosure where lions are kept and tried to feed them cookies.

Does anyone else have any good candidates?


Yes. ;)

:bigbow:

[Taltarzac725]

How about posting mindless stickers on P.O. boxes? As if our environment is not cluttered up enough.

That's so people can remember where the PO box is. At least, that's the impression I got overhearing people at the postal center. I do not remember ever seeing these in any PO stations I have frequented over the years-- Oxford, FL; Lady Lake, FL; Dinkytown (near the U of MN); Palm Harbor, FL; Rohnert Park, CA; Belmont, CA; Oldsmar, FL; Safety Harbor, FL; etc. No tacky stickers in these. Maybe, they were there but I was not paying attention? I will check again at Lady Lake and Oxford's.

[Taltarzac725]

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/879072-post7.html

I never did learn what happened with this man. His last name is so common that I have had a hard time locating him or his brothers or very attractive sister who soon married a wealthy rancher after college graduation or maybe it was after some college. I did run into the attractive sister while she was a student at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). She was also from my high school of Earl Wooster High. I am on these various Facebook pages occasionally but cannot find many people I know even though I did run into a few UNR Philosophy professors when I returned to Reno, NV in 1989 for the annual Law Librarian convention where I was introduced as the cataloger of all the WESTLAW files for a national project we were doing in tandem with the State University of New York at Buffalo which was cataloging the LEXIS files.

I AM hoping that neither Chuck nor his very attractive sister Marie reads TOTV or lives in the Villages. You never know.

I believe I climbed Rattlesnake Mt in my bare feet on a dare from a member of this family or their friends so I am not one to really talk about stupid things done in the hormonal rush of youth.

There was another matter with this Reno, Nevada family which is kind of funny.

The very attractive sister noticed my interest when I was about 16, her 17 and invited me on her horse. Or, perhaps, it was a horse someone allowed her to ride. We went riding around her quite rural neighborhood area (Marvin Gardens?) where many of the homesteads also had small farms with livestock. Being 16 and having my arms wrapped around a pretty girl who was moving with the horse I got rather excited which she, of course, could tell.

So, she invited me into her main house where her parents slept and the family did meals and family time and showed me some of the rifles, shotguns and other guns.

She then pointed out the rather nasty dogs near the back of their property which she said patrolled their property at night. These were kept in a fenced in area during the day.

She then showed me where she slept from the door threshold in a small building close to another building that housed her three brothers and their various stuff. Hanging snake skins and more guns. I had been in this shack quite often but never in her's.

Now, she gave me the challenge. She said if I wanted to learn more about horseback riding of another sort I should come visit her in her building that night. She made sure to tell me that her father was home that night. He travelled a lot as a truck driver.

Well, I am here sitting today June 26, 2014 with only one BB gun hole's scar in my finger from an adventure with one of this family's neighbors. No dog bite scars, gun shot wounds, etc. Another scar from barbed wire on my right thumb from yet another perilous journey related to another one of these rural neighbors in Marvin Gardens. So I obviously did not take her up on her offer as not being 007 probably would have not made it much further than the dogs.

I did seriously think about this challenge a few years later when running into her on the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Campus but was wondering what kind of things she would show me as obstacles if I had ventured further?