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One Man's Rubbish...

2006 Reader Submission
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/4573356.stm

Brian Spink had an atraction to old bottles. But such bottles as he was interested in were antique Vitorian collectors pices, and were worth several pounds apiece. He wanted a number of these bottles, and if he were to buy them the cost would soon add up. He needed to find an alternative source.

Thankfully him him, he knew of a building site where there used to be a haulage depot. Here all the soil that had been removed was piled up conviniently in an embankment. This meant everything was concentrated and perfect for prospecting.

He went to a part of the site that had been a victorian rubbish dump. That would be the perfect place to start! He began digging into the hundreds of tons of soft, easily digable soil and soon had a sizeable hole at the easiest spot to access: the bottom...

It is a basic and well known law of physics that if something is not supported, gravity brings it down. He should have thought about the softness of the soil being too good to be true, because When Brian removed the soil from the bottom, the embakment fell until it reached a new support, which it found in the form of Brian. He was trapped in the two foot hole and died there before firefighters could pull him out.

Submitted on 01/05/2006

Submitted by: Iain Macdonald
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James said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I'm voting to keep this one largely because of the excellent write-up. I believe this may have already been submitted but isn't in the archive. Anyway, digging around a large pile of anything is asking for trouble. And trouble he found! Thanks...


Greg said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I like this too. Interestingly, small children have been proven to grasp the principle behind piles of sand and what keeps them up - not to mention what makes them topple. Evidentally Mr Spink missed that class ...


Jack said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
And there were the people who dug tunnels into beach sands here in the U.S. several years ago and got buried when the tunnel collapsed. If the expression can be excused, I think that Spink indeed dug his own grave...


Jorge said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award


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