I think we have to disqualify the one from Tacoma, WA since he didn't die.
Better luck next year.



>2004 Darwin Awards: The Darwin Awards honor people who did the "gene pool"
>the most service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid
>way. The candidates this year are:
>
>
>+ Police in Windsor, Ontario said 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.
>
>+ 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.
>
>+ 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. 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.
>
>+ 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.
>
>+ 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.
>
>+ 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." Bingham's
>foot was never located.
>
>+ AND THE WINNER:
>
>Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) 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. Investigators say 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. During that time he suffocated.
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