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They Might be rednecks part 2

2009 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Now I know already that this story definitely has been tossed by the folks at Darwin, but there were a lot of details left out of this story.

First off as we all know the men who were doing this deed were indeed making a barbecue out of a 55 gallon drum.. a drum full of kerosene vapors. But here's a little known fact about these two 64 year old redneck idiots who nearly blew themselves up and thus I would argue on the lack of judgement.

One of the two (more than likely the one doing the deed) was in fact a maintenance man at the apartment in question. Now even though this is just what would be called "Bad Luck" really is in a way stupidity on the grounds that both men knew it was a kerosene drum, and that the drum was filled with highly explosive vapors.

Now I'm not pushing for a darwin, but rather an honorable mention here due to the fact that four of the five criteria are met.

1 Reproduction - Neither man was killed but were injured. Thereby qualifying it as a honorable mention

2. Self selection. I would say the maintenance man would have had at least common sense to NOT open the drum up with an electrical saw.

3. Excellence.. This one is iffy but considering that both our rednecks were idiots by doing this really shows that we could have had a two for 1 darwin. 4. Age.. At 64, both men probably still had their judgement if not, they were both senile old rednecks

5 Veracity.. considering that the online news is a bit sketchy but the written papers are a lot more detailed (and this comes from the written page a friend read me on February 12th, 2009, this makes this story very true.)

So they might be rednecks and there might have been a lack of self excellence but still give these guys an Honorable mention. They deserve that at least!

Submitted on 02/12/2009

Submitted by: Paul Bender
Reference: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/109951.php

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Lacks Excellence
Thanks for the additional information, Paul, but it's really not enough for me to change my mind on this story. As James pointed out in the original submission we've received numerous stories of people welding drums, welding around explosive materials, etc. In the grand scheme of Darwin Awards this sort of incident just isn't all that uncommon or strange enough.


Graham said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
I concur. While a good read, this story demonstrates the usual and all too common level of stupidity we've come to expect.


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