Darwin Awards...

[PW_Elle]

I work for a public works department in the solid waste division.

A colleague of mine is on the phone right now with a landscaping service. They said they had two mulch forks and a shovel on the curb NEXT TO THE TRASH, at a residence they were working at.

Our trash guys are required to pick up EVERYTHING that's at the curb as long as it's not too heavy or oversized.

This guy says that the mulch forks are gone, and it's our fault... he wants them back. He "doesn't care what those guys have to do."

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[KuzcoLlama]

Pardon my ignorance, but how is this person a Darwin Award?

On topic, all I can think is, "Yes, dumbass, lean the shovel against the trashcan and leave it there on Trash day. Buffoon."

[Worker-Intellectual]

This guy says that the mulch forks are gone, and it's our fault... he wants them back. He "doesn't care what those guys have to do."

What an idiot. But he is tight about three our of four statements in that sentence.

The mulch forks are gone. He wants them back. He doesn't care what those guys have to do.

Unfortunately for them, it is his fault and he won't get them back, considering they are probably buried under tons of garbage by now.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This isn't really a Darwin Award.

A Darwin Award is when you kill yourself, or nearly kill yourself, in a stupid and highly amusing way.

Such as for example the guy who, thinking he was answering the ringing phone on his nightstand in the middle of the night, instead grabbed his loaded gun off the nightstand, which discharged when he put it to his ear. I remember this because I used to have Darwin Award desk calendars.

As it is, it's a pretty amusing story.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I probably shouldn't even admit this, but I actually have a cousin in the Darwin Awards.

Danny, the guy who got killed at Seaworld by the killer whale. Page 23 of the book (I don't know how many books there are. Mine is the one with the yellow cover.)

I have some weird ones in my family.

[Polenicus]

A Darwin Award is when you kill yourself, or nearly kill yourself, in a stupid and highly amusing way.

Actually, the definition of a Darwin Award, if I remember correctly, is 'Someone who betters the gene pool by removing themselves from it in a creative and unique way'. Therefore, someone who kills themselves by firing a bottle rocket up their nose can be disqualified if he has kids, but the guy who survives but can't reproduce because he castrated himself with a .22 qualifies.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

That's correct. If you survive blowing your unit off, you still qualify.

[lordlundar]

Therefore, someone who kills themselves by firing a bottle rocket up their nose can be disqualified if he has kids,

Nope! they do allow it because the belif is that the offspring inherit genes to counteract the DA quality genes, or simply don't get the DA quality genes in the first place.