Stupid People - Darwin Award

[Tidybuoy]

Another news story about really dumb people. I group these people in the same category of people that get hit by trains and people who can't swim and drown while wading in a swift moving river.

Expectant parents fired a cannon to celebrate their baby shower. It exploded and killed a guest. It wasn't too long ago where a huge forest fire was started using the same type of device.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Expectant-parents-fired-a-cannon-to-celebrate-15932801.php

[varmint]

The local shop has “gender reveal party tannerite”.

[svandamme]

It's can't be a Darwin award unless
1 It's their first pregnancy
2 the shrapnel takes his balls clean off.
3 she miscarries from shock, with complications (like surgery or sepsis) that renders her sterile

Eg, that they are both taken out of the gene pool completely.
And anybody that does this kind of "gender reveals" I say, fair play to that kind of a 123.

[sammyg2]

For the first time in my life I kinda want to go to a gender reveal party, just to see what the idiots do next

[Tidybuoy]

I thought these days they let the kid decide.

[KFC911]

Once a canon shoots yer junk off .... ya might as well have boobs

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by svandamme

It's can't be a Darwin award unless
1 It's their first pregnancy
2 the shrapnel takes his balls clean off.
3 she miscarries from shock, with complications (like surgery or sepsis) that renders her sterile

Eg, that they are both taken out of the gene pool completely.
And anybody that does this kind of "gender reveals" I say, fair play to that kind of a 123.

bwahhhahahahaha...

[masraum]

This one incident isn't that shocking (these days), but what is crazy is the long list of crap in the article.

One piece of the cannon flew about 10 to 15 feet and struck 26-year-old Evan Thomas Silva in the chest, seriously injuring him, Michigan State Police said in a statement to WJRT on Sunday. The man, who was a friend of the hosts, later died at Hurley Medical Center in nearby Flint, Mich.

Metal shards flew as far as 25 feet, police said. Pieces of the cannon also hit three parked cars and a garage, but no one else was harmed, the Detroit Free Press reported.

The homeowner had purchased the cannon at an auction and previously fired it on multiple occasions, MLive.com reported. Police described the device as similar to a "signal cannon," which is often used as a novelty. The cannon should have set off a loud bang, a flash of light and a puff of smoke, police said.

Late last summer, a couple setting off a smoke bomb to reveal their baby's gender ignited wild grasses inside El Dorado Ranch Park in Southern California, starting a wildfire that burned for more than a month and scorched 22,744 acres. It was the second fire started at a gender-reveal party in 2020, following one in Florida last April.

A Border Patrol agent similarly sparked a wildfire in April 2017 by firing a rifle at a target filled with colored powder and the explosive substance Tannerite. The blast set nearby dry brush on fire, causing the Sawmill Fire that racked up $8 million in damage.

Another gender-reveal party led to a plane crash when a pilot, intending to drop 350 gallons of pink water, flew too slowly and stalled the plane. The pilot was unharmed and a passenger suffered minor injuries.

In Iowa, a family accidentally built a pipe bomb in an attempt to set off a blue-or-pink flash. When the bomb exploded, a piece of shrapnel struck the baby's grandmother, instantly killing her.

The last one is especially horrible.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

that video is waaaaay to long

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by masraum

The last one is especially horrible.

but baby gets a nice inheritance right when it comes out of the oven.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by svandamme

that video is waaaaay to long

I agree but 2,482,245 views since Sep 17, 2020... He's making real money!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by svandamme

but baby gets a nice inheritance right when it comes out of the oven.

that's assuming there's anything other than debt and a run down old house to inherit

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by masraum

that's assuming there's anything other than debt and a run down old house to inherit

WOOF!