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Email a Friend The stupidity displayed by the participants in the following tales stops short of the ultimate Darwin Awards sacrifice. Nevertheless, we salute the spirit and innovation of their misadventures. Next Prev Random

Exploding Outhouse
2004 Honorable Mention
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(13 July 2004, West Virginia) A Blacksville man decided to light up a cigarette while relaxing in a portable outhouse, inadvertently demonstrating one more reason to give up the habit. According to a spokeswoman for Monongalia Emergency Medical Services, the methane in the porta-potty "didn't take too kindly" to the lit cigarette, and expressed its displeasure by exploded in a fireball.

The man, whose identity was withheld "due to privacy policies," was able to drive himself to a nearby health center. Emergency workers declined to reveal whether the man's injuries (although not "life-threatening") were serious enough to remove him from the gene pool.

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