2008 At-Risk Survivor

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.

A Cushioned Blow 2008 At-Risk Survivor Confirmed True by Darwin (13 October 2008, Germany) Smoking destroys more than lung cells... if you try hard enough. One evening, a 42 year old man inflated a punctured air mattress with a tyre repair spray which, like all solvent-based aerosols, is flammable. Furthermore he did this while keeping the windows in his loft apartment tightly closed. The next morning, this airhead lit a smoke before he opened the valve to deflate the mattress. The resulting explosion wrecked most of the furnishings, part of the roof, and blew a window from the wall! The damage was so severe that a structural engineer condemned the flat. Narrowly missing a "full-blown" Darwin Award, our hero was taken to a burn care unit and managed to survive the brutal attack by his air mattress. MEDIA REFERENCES DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2012 Submitted by: Julchen Reference: presseportal.de Awful? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Great? Hate it! Love it!

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