Man Buried Alive Dies 
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This is a tale of Natural Selection at work. Unfortunately, evolutionary processes are just that; processes, and cannot choose when to take effect. If they could, they would have done so before the subject of this tale attained the venerable age of 70 and had sired children.
However, since he did such a good job of indoctinating his offspring in his defective logic, we can rest assured that in another million years, or perhaps even within our own lifetimes, the descendents of the subject in question will no longer contaminate the gene pool.
It seems that a man in India was obsessed with attaining the state of enlightenment known as "samadhi." In his dreams, his guru offered him a fool-proof plan (that is to say, one which would prove who's a fool). Our very own Human dodo bird stomped his way into the middle of a local field, no doubt crushing life-sustaining food stuffs along the way, and proceeded to dig a five foot deep hole. With his entire village of 5,000 looking on, he sat down in a lotus position at the bottom of the pit, a mysterious coconut in his lap, and asked his neighbors to fill it back up with mud. Given his reputation for especial holiness, and their own dubious intelligence, they complied.
Shortly thereafter, the local constabulary became aware of the unusual activity in the village and ordered that the man and the hole be dug back up. Shockingly, when they reached him, Hemubhai Talasibhai was dead! The police were stymed; should someone be charged with a crime and if so, what would be the infraction? Who could have possibly foreseen that burying a man alive would kill him? No one in the village of Bodi, apparently; the village that logic forgot!
And yet, Talasibhai's legacy lives on; thousands now throng to his Very Special Death Pit to worship, and Darwin Award fans may take comfort in the knowledge that his son now rues the fact that he once mocked his father's beliefs. Perhaps one day soon he will follow in his father's Cenozoic footsteps!
I read this on the Ananova website, which attributes it to an Indian newspaper called "Sandhya Varta." Submitted on 08/02/2002
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Anonymous
Reference:
Ananova website, 12/26/01
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