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The Darwin Awards Gift Shop
Hardback. 304 pages. Autographed.
$15
The human race's most popular humor series returns with a brand-new
collection of macabre mishaps and misadventures. Honoring those who improve
our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, the Darwin
Awards III shows once more how uncommon common sense still is.
Salute the sheriff who inadvertently shot himself--twice! Witness
the insurance defrauder who amputated his leg with a chainsaw! Heed the
story of the farmer who avoided bee stings by sealing his head in a plastic
bag! Cringe at the man crushed by a branch he'd just severed... directly
over his head!
123 new stories, 18 full-page illustrations, plus discussions of transgenic
animals, the origin of life, and more.
Autographed by Author!
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Passionate Plunge
(July 1998) A man with the unlikely ambition to jump off every river bridge in Norwich ended his athletic career with a 70-foot leap into three feet of water. Friends said the 34-year-old man had fulfilled his dream of jumping off every city bridge spanning the River Wensum. Having exhausted the bridge selection, this time he climbed to the top of a multi-story car park, looked down from the parapets and shouted an enquiry to onlookers asking how deep the water was. Then he plunged to his death in the shallow waters below. Emergency workers were unable to resuscitate the man, who was said to possess "a strange and unusual passion for jumping into rivers."
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