Too old for a Darwin

[steve_earwig]

This was on the radio earlier: http://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/sakuplja ... nak-427864

Everything I read says something different so I hope it doesn't pan out into something more mundane (but Steve, someone died! So?)

Translation of the above:

Copper Collector killed in a bomb blast in Sesvete

An explosive device went off when a man tried to drill off the primer.

A 58 year old man died in an explosion in the yard of a family home, in whatever road in Sesvete at about 15.10 today. Unofficial reports say the explosion occurred when he tried to remove the primer from an explosive device.

The man died at the scene and nearby houses had their windows broken. The victim, according to unofficial information, collected scrap [metal] and how he came on the bomb is as yet unknown. Also unknown is the type of bomb, this will be confined by explosives experts. Police at the scene are investigating.

[lozz]

Madness aint it

its abit like what the idiots over here are doing,
sneaking into substations and such for the copper rods (free hair perm)

people must be getting despreate to do such things,

[scotty73]

(free hair perm)

[lozz]

(free hair perm)

Did you not see it on tv,?

iknow ishouidnt but i couidnt help laugh at that clown that pulled the flags up got the bolt cutters on the rods,

Boom! toast,

serves them right isay

[scotty73]

I didn't see it mate when the news is on i bog off in the kitchen while the wife rants about the government.

[steve_earwig]

Swift update: For "explosive device" substitute the words "hand grenade". Like it was ever going to be anything else

[sirwiggum]

Why didnt he take an angle grinder to it like everyone else?

[steve_earwig]

That's what they said he did on the radio.

I suppose he could have used a chain saw http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2002-08.html

[steve_earwig]

Oh, the story's disappeared All there is now is a couple of car crashes, a collapsed bungee jumping tower on a beach somewhere, some huge fire in a field and this http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/tesk ... 24333.aspx which is a story about a guy reaching into his bailing machine to find out why it had stopped working and loosing an arm. He was drunk.

Business as usual I guess

[sirwiggum]

I mind the one where they found tyre tracks on a road and then just this charred rock on the cliff

Turned out someone thought they would strap a rocket to the roof of their car.

[steve_earwig]

That one's an urban legend, sadly

There's plenty of real ones, just have a browse - http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/ . Croatians seem to have made it in 4 times, 3 involving the "mishandling" of hand grenades.

[highlander]

I mind the one where they found tyre tracks on a road and then just this charred rock on the cliff

Turned out someone thought they would strap a rocket to the roof of their car.

Mythbusters tested this one twice - once on their first show, and it didn't have much going for it, and once again much later - and the rocket engine they'd bought exploded violently on the ramp ...

The myth is busted because if you mounted one of these to the roof of your car, it'd rip the roof off your car. It wouldn't be stable in flight anyway, probably cartwheeling all over the place. And you'd never have enough thrust or fuel in one of those to make it fly for anywhere like as long as the myth originally said.

The revisit, they fitted the rocket to the car's chassis, and mounted it a bit like the rocket engine on the bat-mobile (exhaust nozzle poking out the back of the car). It's just a shame the rocket engine blew up.

It's a cool story though

[steve_earwig]

You were saying...
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I tried to submit this to Darwin but it said to do a search on the site first, looks like it's too common to be of interest http://darwinawards.com/reject/201007/p ... 30453.html

Now all I need to do is find the story about the guy that thought it'd be a good idea to warm himself up on an electric sub station...

[steve_earwig]

Can't be bothered to start a new thread.

Šibenik: Woman dies in McDonald's, for an hour workers prepared food next to her body (?)

http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/sibe ... 27961.aspx

On Sunday an unbelievable incident happened in Šibenik. A 49 year old Bosnian woman (who now lives in Denmark) came to the "restaurant" with her family. While she sat at the table with her husband and daughters she started to feel strong pains in her chest.She fell to the floor and her husband called for an ambulance but when it arrived she was already dead.

What is striking is the situation that emerged after her death. The restaurant remained open, and guests were served food as if nothing had happened. At the same time, the body of the dead women was left lying covered with a blanket just feet from where workers were preparing food, and the body was guarded by police.

Witnesses confirmed the allegations as did the police, who said that it is true that they had not ordered the closure of the restaurant, but employees of McDonald's continue to claim that only the "drive in" remained open and that none of the guests could enter the restaurant. What doesn't change is the fact that workers continued to prepare food while a woman lay dead only meters away.

(Close but no cigar Google)

[Welly]

Do you want Fries with that?