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Cooking his own goose..

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

There's an old saying that you shouldn't watch a pot boil, but in this poor man's case, maybe he should of.

According to the articles I found our Potential Darwin Nominee who's name was Alan McGregor, aged 20, decided to come home after a party and decided to cook up some late night snack.

So he got home went to the refrigerator and broke out a chip pot, and put it on the stove, turned on the stove and went into the living room and probably went to sleep.

It was shortly after this that he cooked his own goose.

The unwatched pot, boiled over and immediate caught fire, and soon not only the kitchen but the living room was full of smoke...

of course Mr. McGregor didn't know what hit him, as there were no smoke detectors working at the time (The downstairs Smoke detector had no batteries and the upstairs detector had the battery turned around the wrong way.

So let's if this meets the criteria.

1. Reproduction: At 20, he might have been married but from what it appears, he wasn't .. Check.. 2. Excellence: Put pot on stove, turn on stove, walk into Living room, and then fall asleep.. Check!

3. Self Selection: Hey he wanted to eat something yet he was so tired, he fell asleep and got taken out by his own cooking methods.. Check

4. Maturity.. 20 .. easy qualification..

5. Veracity -- The BBC and UTV both have stories on this one (even google this one and you get the results.. big check...

So we have a nominee I feel, and he literally ended up out of the primodial soup and cooked his own goose well done..

3. Self Selection

Submitted on 08/11/2007

Submitted by: Paul Bender
Reference: http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=84138&pt=n

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Bruce said:
Maybe Toss: Lacks Excellence
Falling asleep with the stove on, lit cigarettes or candles, a roaring fire in the fireplace, etc. results in fire related deaths fairly regularly. As far as I'm concerned there really isn't anything unique or entertaining about this accident.


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Paul: you missed: 4. Stupidity. Removed the batteries from one smoke detector (was it making too much noise to let him sleep) and had the battery in backwards in the other one. Thanks for sending the story


James said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I wish I could be 100% enthusiastic about this one. Bruce certainly has a valid point in that this sort of thing happens regularly, but like Chip I find the stupidity here enough to rate this one a DA. Either he was so far gone he shouldn't have attempted to cook anything (I imagine the UK has it's own 24 hour fast food/convienience stores), or he was plain unlucky. Either way, the condition of the smoke detectors (especially the upstairs detector) cement the stupidity factor!


Graham said:
Maybe Toss: Lacks Excellence
While such events are commonplace, the condition of the smoke detectors is quite funny. Amazing how many people treat smoke detectors like unnecessary nuisances.


Jorge said:
Definitely Toss: Not Amusing


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