Modern Armor 2006
Darwin Award Nominee
(26 August 2006, Leicester, England) Darren's death was a mystery. The 33-year-old was found slumped in the hallway of his house, bleeding from stab wounds to his chest. Police initially assumed that an assailant had attacked him, but they could find no supporting evidence. A year later, the inquest revealed why Darren can stake his claim to a place among the winners of the Darwin Award.
Darren had called a friend, but minutes after he hung up, rang back to ask for an ambulance. The front door was ajar, and Darren was found lying near a bloodstained lock-knife he had purchased whilst on holiday in Spain. Forensics investigators saw no indication of a struggle, and the coroner reported that the stab wounds seemed to be self-inflicted. However, Darren had shown no suicidal tendencies.
His wife, who was on holiday at the time of the incident, cleared up the mystery, and revealed why our subject will go down in history as a Darwin Award winner. As she was leaving for the holiday, she remembered Darren wondering whether his new jacket was 'stab-proof'.
That's right. Darren decided to find out if his jacket could withstand a knife attack. Did he choose to test his jacket while it was draped over the back of a chair? No, our man thought that the best approach would be to wear the garment and stab himself. Sadly, his choice of armor proved less resistant to a sharp blade than he had hoped.
The coroner reached a verdict of accidental death by 'misadventure'.
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In a fire, father saves beer and forget his children.
Chi Takahashi, an eccentric beer enthusiastic from Nagoya, Japan, was the protagonist of a hard-to-believe history.
It was eight o'clock pm when he arrived home from work, and noticed a dense smoke coming from his house. Without second thoughts, he ran to the house to save a box of Penneffoise's beer, that he had bought three years ago.
"In 2005 I made a business-travel to Wales, and there I had the rare opportunity to get a Penneffoise box. This beer costed out a fortune, it's the most valious item that I have." Chi said.
But what Chi forgot was the fact that everyday, when he arrives from work, his daughter Mia would be alone at home, soon after her mother went to work. For his luck, Mya was in her bedroom taking care of her aquarium, and cleverly dropped the water in the door, giving time to the fireman to save her.
"I understand him, because I would save my dolls" said the innocent Mya.
The fireman said that the fire was caused by a short circuit in the kitchen. Nobody got hurt.
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