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Uncle Rick (God bless his soul) won't mind this story as he's in a better place now.
Once my dad and all of his brothers, including Uncle Rick, the tallest, went camping at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, also known as the "big 90-degree cliff.") Back in the early 70s some campsites sat right next to the canyon, and there were few safety warnings. Fate had it that Dad and his brothers got one of those campsites. They had a lot of beer that night, went to bed, and two hours later Uncle Rick woke up, still drunk, with a full tank. Uncle Rick figured he'd pee in the canyon. Y'know, drunk guy, full tank, never urinated in a canyon before, so he walked over to the canyon and let fly. In mid-stream, a gust of wind came along and upset drunken Uncle Rick's equilibrium. He lost his balance and toppled over, and they found him the next day, 50 vertical feet and 5 horizontal feet from where he last whizzed. I nominate Uncle Rick for a Darwin Award because I just want him to be famous for something better than being the dead guy in the family. Please forgive me, Uncle Rick.
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Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection
Hardback. 240 pages. Autographed.$15 A fresh collection of magnificent misadventures! Lust, Vanity, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, and Wrath extract an evolutionary toll on the wicked. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety video. Witness the man who becomes a victim of his own strange passion for jumping into rivers. Heed the honest bricklayer who loses a battle of wits with 300 pounds of tools. This book includes more History of the Awards, Gordon's Law, and 10 discussions of evolution, including speciation and the role of verbal memes in civilization. Autographed by Author! |
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