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01/26/2005: What’s Wrong With This Picture…or Welcome to The Darwin Awards 2004 Winner
For those of you unfamiliar with The Darwin Awards, it’s a group dedicated to finding the best stories during the year of those most fantastical ways reeeeally stupid people have (generously…unintentionally) removed themselves from the gene pool of the planet.
The 2004 Winner is…
We have a new Darwin winner, with the recent demise of a man at the hands of his lava lamp. "Why on Earth he heated a lava lamp on the stove, we don't know," said baffled police.
No drug or alcohol evidence was found; Philip Quinn, 24, in his right mind, placed a lava lamp on his kitchen burner and turned up the flame. In due course, he rediscovered this favorite explosive generator of deadly shrapnel. He was found dead in his Kent trailer home, a shard of glass through his heart.
Save those stories...and make your own entry...who knows...yours could be the 2005 Winner this year.
Karen on 01.26.05 @ 09:31 AM CST
Replies: 3 comments
on Wednesday, January 26th, 2005 at 11:14 PM CST, Len Cleavelin said
Hmmmmm... I wonder if he really put the *whole* lamp on the burner a la the picture, or if he removed the globe (the glass part with the liquid and the "lava") from the lamp and put *that* on the burner (after all, you never can count on a journo to pick up a subtle but important distinction like that)? If so, then we could deduce that his motivation was to see how the LavaLamp would perform under higher heat than the light bulb that normally heats the lava to produce the wonderful under-the-influence-of-drugs
effect of a LavaLamp.
If that's the case, he found out....
on Thursday, January 27th, 2005 at 3:08 PM CST, Karen said
Of course he put only the glass part on...this is a visual "joke"...as you can tell since I failed to light the burner (I don't need to be the 2005 Award winner neither!!!)
on Thursday, January 27th, 2005 at 3:09 PM CST, Karen said
Of course he put only the glass part on...this is a visual "joke"...as you can tell since I failed to light the burner (I don't need to be the 2005 Award winner neither!!!)