Before the fatal collision, he had run in front of another car and a scooter rider had to swerve to avoid him, as he ran across the road while he and three friends walked towards a garage for cigarettes. Mr Cooke’s cousin, Celine Groom, told the inquest he shouted ‘look at me, I’m Superman’ as he deliberately ran at a bus shelter. She described him as ‘hyper’.

She said: ‘He was showing off. I could see a car coming and told him to move, he didn’t listen. I knew what he was going to do.’

A medical expert estimated the amount of alcohol in his bloodstream at the time of the collision would have been 153 milligrams - almost twice the legal driving limit.

Coroner ruled death by misadventure at inquest in Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK.

Submitted on 04/09/2014

Submitted by: JF
Reference: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2599656/Drunk-father-bragged-friends-look-Im-Superman-minute

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
If this was just a drunk guy randomly running into the street then I'd actually consider it to be too common since we get lots of stories involving people running in front of oncoming traffic. But since this guy did it multiple times I'm more than willing to vote for a DA. Thanks, JF!

James said:
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It would seem that the "Man of Steel" finally ran into a bit of Kryptonite...or more accurately, the Kryptonite ran into him! Thanks, JF!

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