Falling Air 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
I have just found your website www.DarwinAwards.com thru a local T.V. News station www.turnto10.com/
The Following are a couple of stories I thought you would get a kick out off.
Back in the late 80s I worked for the Bristol County Coroners office of Massachusetts as a lab assistant. One of the cases we worked on was a 63-year-old Portuguese man who had been drinking quite a bit of Portuguese home made wine (moonshine). Apparently his wife had been nagging him all morning to put the air conditioner in the window of their 3rd floor apartment. The drunken man finally decided, after having a few more shot, it was time. He lifted the 1500 BTU A.C. unit to the windowsill and started to slide it out. He pushed and to his surprise the A.C. unit began to fall. Unfortunately the man did not think to let go of the A.C. and was pulled out the window.
The wife was suspected of pushing the drunken bum. But no evidence of this was ever found. Cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma to the head. Accidental Death.
In 1992 I was helping a friend work on his new home. It is a 2-story house sitting on a lot that is graded to a wall on a pond. This side of the house is just less than 30 feet at the eaves. He had decided to install a floodlight on the bottom of the eaves.
This wasn’t a problem the interior off the house wasn’t finished so we ran the 110 wires to the spot from the inside. When it came time to install the fixture he said he would take care of it. This however was a problem. For several reasons, #1 he is afraid of heights, #2 at the time he was afraid of electricity and, #3 the ground wasn’t level where the ladder had to go.
Being a man and not wanting to show fear, He climbed the ladder very carefully and started to install the light fixture as, I stood footing the base of the ladder. The next thing I know he jumps almost falling off. The ladder starts to slide sideways and I’m doing all I can to keep the latter strait.
After he calmed down a bit he climbs down the ladder. He was still shaking violently. I thought he had gotten shocked from the wires.
It turns out he had his pager on vibrate and when his wife paged him it scared the shit out of him and he thought he was being electrocuted. I thank god he didn’t become a Darwin award winner, But its still very funny and I bust him about it to this day.
James Joaquim
Submitted on 01/18/2003
Submitted by:
James Joaquim
Reference:
Copyright © 2002 DarwinAwards.com
|
