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Ken Rice@ENRON COMMUNICATIONS
05/16/2001 09:34 AM
To:	David W Delainey/HOU/EES@EES
cc:	Kevin Hannon/Enron Communications@Enron Communications 
Subject:	FW: DARWIN AWARDS

Delainey

Why is it that a Canadian always seems to win the Darwin Awards?

Ken

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	donrs@donrs.com 05/16/01 08:46 AM 	   To: RMSherrill@duke-energy.com, lance_riley@anadarko.com, Ken Rice/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, alinbeck@redstonegroup.com  cc:   Subject: FW: DARWIN AWARDS	






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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 9:04 PM
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Subject: Fw: DARWIN AWARDS



Read it and shake your head in wonder.
> Subject: FW: DARWIN AWARDS
>
>
> >> Hot off the press! The 2000-2001 Darwin Awards
> Are Here!! > The latest
> >> Darwin Awards update....
> >> 1.  A Canadian man, searching for a way of
> getting drunk cheaply, because
> >> he had no money with which to buy alcohol, mixed
> gasoline with milk. Not
> >> surprisingly, this concoction made him ill, and
> he vomited into the
> >> fireplace in his house. This resulting explosion
> and fire burned his house
> >> down, killing both him and his sister.
> >> 2. A 34-year-old white male found dead in the
> basement of his home died of
> >> suffocation, according to police. He was
> approximately 6'2" tall and
> >> weighed 225 pounds. He was wearing a pleated
> skirt, white bra, black and
> >> white saddle shoes, and a woman's wig. It
> appeared that he was trying to
> >> create a schoolgirl's uniform look. He was also
> wearing a military gas
> >> mask that had the filter canister removed and a
> rubber hose attached in
> >> its place. The other end of the hose was
> connected to a one end of a
> >> hollow wooden tube approx. 12" long and 3" in
> diameter. The tube's other
> >> end was inserted into his rear end for reasons
> unknown, and was the cause
> >> of his suffocation. Police found the task of
> explaining the circumstances
> >> of his death to his family very awkward.
> >> 3. Three Brazilian men were flying in a light
> aircraft at low altitude
> >> when another plane approached. It appears that
> they decided to moon the
> >> occupants of the other plane, but lost control of
> their own aircraft and
> >> crashed. They were all found dead in the wreckage
> with their pants around
> >> their ankles.
> >> 4. A police officer in Ohio responded to a 911
> call. She had no details
> >> before arriving, except that someone had reported
> that his father was not
> >> breathing. Upon arrival, the officer found the
> man face down on the couch,
> >> naked. When she rolled him over to check for a
> pulse and to start CPR, she
> >> noticed burn marks around his genitals. After the
> ambulance arrived and
> >> removed the man - who was declared dead on
> arrival at the hospital - the
> >> police made a closer inspection of the couch, and
> noticed that the man had
> >> made a hole between the cushions. Upon flipping
> the couch over, they
> >> discovered what caused his death. Apparently the
> man had a habit of
> >> putting his penis between the cushions, down into
> the hole and between two
> >> electrical sanders (with the sandpaper removed,
> for obvious reasons).
> >> According to the story, after his orgasm the
> discharge shorted out one of
> >> the sanders, electrocuting him.
> >> 5. A 27-year-old French woman lost control of her
> car on a highway near
> >> Marseilles and crashed into a tree, seriously
> injuring her passenger and
> >> killing herself. As a commonplace road accident,
> this would not have
> >> qualified for a Darwin nomination, were it not
> for the fact that the
> >> driver's attention had been distracted by her
> Tamagotchi key ring, which
> >> had started urgently beeping for food as she
> drove along. In an attempt to
> >> press the correct buttons to save the
> Tamagotchi's life, the woman lost
> >> her own.
> >> 6. A 22-year-old Reston, VA man was found dead
> after he tried to use
> >> octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70-foot
> railroad trestle. Fairfax
> >> County police said Eric Barcia, a fast-food
> worker, taped a bunch of these
> >> straps together, wrapped an end around one foot,
> anchored the other end to
> >> the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped and hit
> the pavement. Warren
> >> Carmichael, a police spokesman, said
> investigators think Barcia was alone
> >> because his car was found nearby. "The length of
> the cord that he had
> >> assembled was greater than the distance between
> the trestle and the
> >> ground", Carmichael said. Police say the apparent
> cause of death was
> >> "Major trauma".
> >> 7. A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites.
> It seems that he and a
> >> friend were playing a game of catch, using the
> rattlesnake as a ball. The
> >> friend - no doubt, a future Darwin Awards
> candidate - was hospitalised.
> >> 8. Employees in a medium-sized warehouse in west
> Texas noticed the smell
> >> of a gas leak. Sensibly, management evacuated the
> building, extinguishing
> >> all potential sources of ignition lights, power,
> etc. After the building
> >> had been evacuated, two technicians from the gas
> company were dispatched.
> >> Upon entering the building, they found they had
> difficulty navigating in
> >> the dark. To their frustration, none of the
> lights worked (you can see
> >> what's coming, can't you?). Witnesses later
> described the sight of one of
> >> the technicians reaching into his pocket and
> retrieving an object, that
> >> resembled a cigarette lighter. Upon operation of
> the lighter-like object,
> >> the gas in the warehouse exploded, sending pieces
> of it up to three miles
> >> away. Nothing was found of the technicians, but
> the lighter was virtually
> >> untouched by the explosion. The technician
> suspected of causing the blast
> >> had never been thought of as 'bright' by his
> peers.
>
>