Rocketing to Glory
2005 Darwin Award Winner
Confirmed True by Darwin
(7 February 2005, Malaysia) Fireworks are a longstanding lunar New Year's
tradition among Malaysia's large Chinese minority, and continue to be
widely used to celebrate, despite a ban on their saleS and use.
Confirmed True by Darwin
Wan, a 29-year-old excavator operator, spent the evening watching people set off fireworks outside a suburban Kuala Lumpur nightclub. These were no mere firecrackers. They were rockets that shot as high as a ten-story building before exploding.
His curiosity piqued, Wan bent over one of the launching tubes for a closer look, wondering how these powerful rockets worked. He was peering down the tube when it fired, sending him flying ten meters. He died instantly from severe head injuries, according to a senior police official.
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