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1999 Darwin Awards
| Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. |
  
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Justice is Served
 (8 April 1999, Georgia) William was 45 years old and boasted a string of arrests and several criminal convictions. You would be stretching the truth if you called him an exemplary citizen. But even worse, he was an abusive husband. Charges of battery and false imprisonment had been leveled against him for allegedly tying his common-law wife to their bed with an extension cord in 1997.
According to the police report, he told her "he was not going to let her out, feed her or allow her to go to work." Rosemary managed to free herself and crawl out a window to summon police. William was jailed for two months, which he spent writing poems and drawing pictures of the couple in wedding finery, before Rosemary begged a judge to send him home because she couldn't afford the rent alone. On Thursday, William doused Rosemary with gasoline and set her on fire. Then he wrenched a gas line loose, apparently to make her death like an accident. But his mislaid plan backfired, when the gas line ignited and blew him up, putting an end to his boorish behavior.
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What Readers Think |
Sweet, sweet poetic justice at work. Give that man an award!hartman - Friday, April 14 at 20:34:53 PDT |
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I just wish the guy's death had been slower and more painful.... Scott - Friday, April 14 at 07:04:58 PDT |
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Sounds like he was probably drunk in addition to being a bastard. Of course, being drunk is a major cause of being a bastard. Come to think of it, being drunk also appears to be a major cause of Darwin Awards ;-) ray - Saturday, April 15 at 12:58:01 PDT |
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Not only did he remove an "abusive husband" gene, he also removed potential "marry an abusive man" gene from the gene pool. Not necessarily a gene in the biological sense, but if he had had sons, they would probably be abusive, and his daughters would probably end up with abusive men. nobody - Sunday, April 16 at 19:40:55 PDT |
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This happens in India all the time. Husbands trying to get out of their marriage put their wives' saris on fire, and blame it on the open stove blast - Wednesday, April 19 at 16:28:04 PDT |
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