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Mining for Elephants
2005 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
15 February 2005, Rushinga, Zimbabwe
The elephants were trampling Christian's maize field, which he planted on an elephant trail of long standing. He had to find a way to fight back! Fortunately, there was an old minefield nearby, on the Zimabwe-Mozambique border. Christian figured a few landmines planted around his field would soon teach the elephants a lesson they would never forget.
Christian may have gotten the idea of using the mines from a couple of incidents that had recently transpired. A local resident had been injured after picking up a landmine while herding cattle the week before. A week before that, another Rushinga man had lost part of his leg after stepping on a landmine. The other villagers saw the writing on the wall, and avoided the landmines.
But Christian realized they were just what he needed! Clearly, these mines could cause great damage to an elephant! He dug up five that had been exposed by recent heavy rains, and began carrying them home.
These unstable mines detonated, killing Christian instantly.
The total number of elephants injured? Zero.
Mining for Elephants
2005 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
15 February 2005, Rushinga, Zimbabwe
The elephants were trampling Christian's maize field, which he planted on an elephant trail of long standing. He had to find a way to fight back! Fortunately, there was an old minefield nearby, on the Zimabwe-Mozambique border. Christian figured a few landmines planted around his field would soon teach the elephants a lesson they would never forget.
Christian may have gotten the idea of using the mines from a couple of incidents that had recently transpired. A local resident had been injured after picking up a landmine while herding cattle the week before. A week before that, another Rushinga man had lost part of his leg after stepping on a landmine. The other villagers saw the writing on the wall, and avoided the landmines.
But Christian realized they were just what he needed! Clearly, these mines could cause great damage to an elephant! He dug up five that had been exposed by recent heavy rains, and began carrying them home.
These unstable mines detonated, killing Christian instantly.
The total number of elephants injured? Zero.
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 5:33 AM
2 Comments:
At 8:20 PM,
Unknown said…
Is this a CHARLES Darwin award?
Evolution at its finest.
At 8:42 PM,
Greg Finnegan said…
Yes, Brenda. Darwin said, "Survival of the Fittest." The idea of the Awardsd is to recognize those who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it. People who do stupid things and thereby kill themselves or hurt themselves enough that they cannot reproduce. Check 'em out; we've all met some of those folks at one time or another - while they were still alive! Heck, you may have been hit on by more than one of them at different concerts! Often, their antics are really, really funny!
-Greg
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