Here's a Darwin Award candidate for sure

[jollyjacktar]

Father seriously injured by exploding manhole cover after lighting firecracker and igniting sewage gas
By Graham Smith

Last updated at 9:35 AM on 16th February 2012
This is the shocking moment a man is blown off his feet after lighting a firecracker on a manhole cover.  CCTV footage shows the man being thrown ten metres through the air by the force of the explosion.  The blast, which took place on January 29 in Hunan province in China, was so powerful that his jacket was torn off his back.

The man, identified only as Mr Cai, was severely injured in the incident.  Surveillance footage shows him playing with his son and nephew in a snow-covered street.  Bending down over a manhole with a lighter in his hand, he prepares to ignite a firecracker as the two young boys look on.

An explosion suddenly occurs, sending him flying across the street and the manhole cover shooting as high as four storeys into the air.
The boys escaped uninjured and local residents rushed Mr Cai to hospital.  He suffered facial burns and an inhalation injury and remains in a critical condition.  The explosion was believed to be caused by highly-explosive biogas that had accumulated inside the sewer. The gas is produced by the biological breakdown of organic waste in the absence of oxygen.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101923/Father-seriously-injured-exploding-manhole-cover-lighting-firecracker-igniting-sewage-gas.html#ixzz1mYSbzFXU

Can't wait to go home and see the video at the story link.  :facepalm:  Photos also at link.  What a dumbass.

 

[PMedMoe]

Honorable mention only.  You have to die to be a candidate. 

 

[GAP]

Interesting video...not sure of the reason it started, but the guy had a point (sorta)

1 Marine vs. 30 Cops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=WmEHcOc0Sys

 

[jollyjacktar]

Honorable mention only.  You have to die to be a candidate. 

Give him time, he's working on it.

 

[jeffb]

Honorable mention only.  You have to die to be a candidate. 

You don't have to die necessarily. You can also get an award for removing your genes from the gene pool by causing an accident that prohibits you from reproducing.

 

[PMedMoe]

You don't have to die necessarily. You can also get an award for removing your genes from the gene pool by causing an accident that prohibits you from reproducing.

You are so right!  http://www.darwinawards.com/rules/

 

[cupper]

You don't have to die necessarily. You can also get an award for removing your genes from the gene pool by causing an accident that prohibits you from reproducing.

Which in itself could be a punishment worse than death!  ;D

 

[Nfld Sapper]

This takes the award, IMHO....

CBC is reporting:

BREAKING Man, 22, dies while riding on couch behind car in Quebec

EDITED TO ADD THE ACTUAL ARTICLE:

Quebec man dies on country-road joyride
CBC News Posted: Feb 19, 2012 12:11 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 20, 2012 6:54 AM ET  

A 22-year-old man has died after a joyride gone wrong in Quebec's Beauce region Saturday night.

The victim was critically injured while riding on a sled-mounted couch dragged by a van down a country road in St. Benjamin, south of Quebec City.

The driver of the van lost control and the sled slid into an oncoming vehicle.

Two other people along for the ride were not injured.

Police say the 21-year-old driver of the van – who fled the scene – has been charged with dangerous driving and fleeing the scene of an accident.

 

[jollyjacktar]

Reading that, I cannot throw stones too hard.  We did some really stupid things, not quite this stupid, when we were younger.  I'm amazed in some ways that we did not become candidates ourselves. 

 

[PanaEng]

Reading that, I cannot throw stones too hard.  We did some really stupid things, not quite this stupid, when we were younger.  I'm amazed in some ways that we did not become candidates ourselves.

+100

 

[Kitty]

That man is lucky the man hole cover didn't take his head off when it blew.

 

[PMedMoe]

Here's another:  Sri Lankan dies trying buried alive record

The Kantale hospital said a post-mortem could not determine the cause of death and further medical investigations are being conducted

Oh, I don't know, but suffocation comes to mind......  :

 

[medicineman]

Crush injuries?

MM

 

[jollyjacktar]

While not award candidates, strictly speaking.  Some of these idiots want to make it to the big time, big time... and probably will one day soon.  :facepalm:

23 brushes with death

 

[Foxhound]

Here's another:  Sri Lankan dies trying buried alive record

Who knows, maybe he has the record.  He could have been alive after he beat the record, but before the digger-uppers got to him.  :nod: