Jack up 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Wanting to do some repairs to the underneath of his car, our man jacked it up. Finding that this didn't give him enough room to work he took the battery out of the car, put the jack on top it, and then jacked the car up. Now having sufficient room to work he lay under the car. Unfortuneately batterys aren't designed to carry great weights and consequenuently collapsed trapping the hapless repair man under the car, in a pool of acid, until the weight of the vehicle crushed his chest resulting in his demise. There are two additional points of interest to this story. Firstly, this mans occupation was an Accident Prevention Officer at a large food processing plant and secondly some 10 ten years previously he had been working under a car when the jack had collapsed trapping his legs and breaking one of them. Some people just don't learn, even by their own mistakes.
NOTE: Obituary and news item can be found in the Daily News (Taranaki, New Zealand) dated 9th April 2003. I am one of Phils work mates but found the irony of the situation so amazing that I felt he had earned his Darwin. Submitted on 04/16/2003
Submitted by:
Anonymous
Reference:
The Daily News 9 April 2003
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