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Wooden Rails

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

This does not qualify for an official Darwin Award, buy may be suitable for an honorable mention.

For Spring Break 2007 a group of friends and myself rented a beach house in Destin, FL. My friend's younger brother, John Michael, started this day off with a few breakfast beers. By afternoon we were ready to go to the beach.

There was a wooden walkway to the beach with a long flight of stairs. In an effort to impress, John Michael decided to show off his skills. With little sense of judgment and a good running start, he hopped on the wooden rail and started sliding. With blazing speed he caught splinters the whole way down, including a 6 inch wooden shard piercing about an inch wide and an eighth on an inch thick. He hit the sand at the bottom and whimpered in agony. The shard totally pierced his butt cheek and just missed going through his "family jewels".

Instead of seeking medical attention, he pulled what he could out by himself and proceeded to go swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. It wasn't until later that he thought of sterilizing the wounds. So, he proceeds to drink and pour vodka over his new piercing.

The next morning he wakes up really sore with the remaining splinters in his butt and realized that he needed to seek medical attention. The wound became infected, and he had to go daily to the doctor for cleaning it out. Thankfully, the antibiotics he was taking prevented anymore consumption of alcohol for that week.

Moral of the story, "Do NOT slide down wooden rails." Had the wooden shard rendered him sterile, I think he would be a strong candidate for the rare Living Darwin Award.

Submitted on 08/30/2007

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Personal Account

Copyright © 2007 DarwinAwards.com

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James said:
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Thanks for sending this in, it sure was funny! It'll make a good (and very painful) personal account! I wonder why he did such a thing? It must have been the beer...!


Chip said:
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Hopefully he decided to perform his self-surgery in a modest place! I do appreciate the laugh today.


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