[Righetti72] Better the reference to Lompoc than Santa Maria...

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Date:    Mon, 17 May 2004 20:59:29 +0000


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> From: "The Richee Family" <rrichee at cox.net>
> Date: 2004/05/11 Tue PM 10:05:39 EDT
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richee, Terry J" <terry.j.richee at boeing.com>
> To: "RICHEE (HOME)" <rrichee at cox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:11 AM
> Subject: FW:
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>
> DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES
> > > >
> > >.....................................................................
> >* In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two
> >feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer
> grate
> >to retrieve his car keys.
> >
> >* In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally
zoned"
> >when he ran," accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily
> >run.
> >
> >* Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug
> into
> >the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21,
> >dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting
in
> a
> >
> >beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying
> him
> >beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used
> their
> >hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of
> >Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using
> heavy
> >equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on.
> Jones
> >was pronounced dead at a hospital.
> >
> >* In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he
fell
> >face-first through the ceiling of bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death
> >was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep
> his
> >hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
> >
> >* According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was
> >stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was
> >trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena
was
> >wearing.
> >
> >
> >* Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in Selbyville, Del,
> as
> >he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded
with
> >four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.
> >
> >* In February, according to police in Windsor, Ontario, Daniel Kolta, 27,
> >and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a tie in
> the
> >game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles. DARWIN AWARD
> >HONORABLE MENTIONS
> >
> >* In Guthrie, Okla, in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede with
> a
> >shot from his 22 caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a rock near
> >the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head, fracturing his skull.
> >
> >* In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out
> >cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a propane
> torch
> >and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his house.
> >
> >* Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, and his
wife
> >
> >Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in
their
> >car. While driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and
> >tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently
> >failed to notice the window was closed.
> >
> >RUNNER UP.... TACOMA, WA Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several
> >friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped
> from
> >the Tacoma Narrows bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew
> >more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge
at
> >4:30 am. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that
> no
> >one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking,
> >volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay nearby.
One
> >end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and the other end was
> tied
> >to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and
tore
> >his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy
> >river water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say, "
> said
> >Bingham, "is that God was watching out for me on that night." "There's
> just
> >no other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located.
> >
> >AND THE WINNER.... PADERBORN, GERMANY Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich
> >Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative
> >and more than a bushel of berries, Figs and prunes before the plugged-up
> >pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds
> of
> >poop! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give
> the
> >ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on
> him.
> >"The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr.
> >Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay
> >unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of
> him"
> >said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. 'with no one
> there
> >
> >to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a
> >watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It seems to be
> just
> >one of those freak accidents that "Shlt happens."
> >
>
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