....................................... Darwin Awards Newsletter March 1999 Visit our Archives! To unsubscribe, reply to this email with the word "cancel" ....................................... BLEATING AND BABBLING (London) A flock of sheep charged a well-meaning British farmer's wife and pushed her over a cliff to her death. Betty Stobbs, 67, was charged by dozens of sheep as she brought them a bale of hay on the back of a power bike. The sheep rushed forward and rammed the vehicle, knocking the Betty and her bike over the edge of a vacant 100' quarry near Druham, in northeastern England. "I saw the sheep surround the bike. The next thing she was tumbling down the incline," neighbor Alan Renfry told reporters. Her husband is being comforted by friends. Bleating and babbling, they fell on his neck with a scream. Wave upon wave of demented avengers March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream. (from Sheep by Pink Floyd) ....................................... Darwin Awards Newsletter March 1999 ....................................... HARD WORK IS ITS OWN REWARD On Feb. 8 1999, Fred Brooks of Forest Park, a 46 year old plumber seeking employment, used shovels to remove a manhole cover on a street and entered the aperture. He. In Fred's haste to identify the source of a sewer blockage, he neglected to set orange warning cones. Upon exiting the manhole, he was struck by the undercarriage of an oncoming car, and was killed. ....................................... Darwin Awards Newsletter March 1999 ....................................... Dempsey's Oaknoll Funeral Home in Rome, Georgia offers a free funeral and burial to anyone who stops in and signs a contract stating they is going to do drugs and drink and drive on New Year's Eve, then subsequently dies in a car wreck. The package is worth $11,300 (U.S.) Barry Miller, manager, plans to offer this service every year. ....................................... Darwin Awards Newsletter March 1999 ....................................... PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION OF THE MONTH Should a citizen practicing elective castration be awarded an honorary "Spirit of Darwin" award? A Huntington, Indiana man was jailed in early February for practicing medicine without a license. Sheriff's officers and state police took Edward Bookin into custody after a witness showed police a video of Bodkin surgically removing the testicles of adult men at their request. No one was seriously injured by the surgeries. ....................................... Darwin Awards Newsletter March 1999 Visit our Archives! To unsubscribe, reply to this email with the word "cancel" .......................................