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Darwin Awards go to people, usually men, who actually performed the following human acts:
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1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again.…

A big city trial lawyer went duck hunting in rural Tennessee. He bagged a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field.
As he started to climb over the fence to retrieve it, an old farmer drove up in his tractor, and asked him what he thought he was doing. The attorney responded, “I shot…

A wealthy farmer had a chicken coop that a fox would unpredictably raid, grab a chicken, and disappear into the woods. The farmer tried to catch the fox, but it was too wily. The chickens always squawked at each other when they thought the fox was nearby, and the fox would always fake his entrance…

Noel’s a good friend of mine. I met him many years ago at Topanga’s famous nudist camp where he lived, the much missed Elysium.
He draws caricatures and politically incorrect cartoons for a living, which abruptly came to a halt when he had a stroke last November, followed by a quadruple heart bypass. He’s just…

Somebody sent me these, originally created by Britain’s wonderful fourth estate. Daily Mail writers?
SOMETHING WENT WRONG IN JET CRASH, EXPERT SAYS
[no, really?]
POLICE BEGIN CAMPAIGN TO RUN DOWN JAYWALKERS
[isn’t that taking things a bit far?]
PANDA MATING FAILS, VET TAKES OVER
[let’s see now, if you cross a panda with a vet…