What with gas pices being what they are today our "hero" decides to go out with his 16 year-old buddy & steal some from a firefighter's car at a local appartment complex. While siphoning from the tank he gets careless & spills some on his pants. No Darwin tendencies yet just a little carelessness. It's what he did next that I believe makes him a candidate. He wanted to check to see how wet his pants were from the gas and as it was too dark to tell he decided to use his lighter. Not surprisingly he had to be admitted to the hospital with 2nd & 3rd degree burns on his legs.

When questioned by police he tried making up a story about some guys throwing gas on him at a nearby filing station and lighting it. Apparantly he wasn't smart enough to make this story fly. Now he's burnt, sore, charged with larceny & probably the source of a great amount of humor at his school. Although the story didn't say I'm guessing he probably had to give the firefighter back the gas too.

Here are links to the original story: http://tinyurl.com/k5sat http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2006/04/12/news/news03.txt

Submitted on 04/14/2006

Submitted by: dave
Reference: Yahoo News - 4/13/06

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James said:
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I like your original write-up, Dave, and would like Darwin to see it. We have this story already, but yours has the best write-up by a long shot! THANK YOU for the original write-up, we get far too few of them1 :-)

Sheryl said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
Thanks, Dave. It's so nice to see an original write up of a boring news story, especially when you add some humour to it. Well done.

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