clear Darwin Winner for 2012

[ToyotaNSaturn]

NC Man Drinks Gasoline From Jar, Lights Up, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/02/28/us/AP-US-Gasoline-Drinking-Death.html?_r=2&hp

HAVELOCK, N.C. (AP) — Police say a North Carolina man is dead after he accidentally drank from a jar of gasoline and then smoked a cigarette....

 

[spock1]

Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn

NC Man Drinks Gasoline From Jar, Lights Up, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/02/28/us/AP-US-Gasoline-Drinking-Death.html?_r=2&hp

HAVELOCK, N.C. (AP) — Police say a North Carolina man is dead after he accidentally drank from a jar of gasoline and then smoked a cigarette....

You can't make this stuff up!

 

[DutchBrad]

Who keeps a jar of gas in the house??? They both sound like winners....

 

[Joseph_S37]

Sounds pretty ridiculous! You have to really try to pull something like that off...

First of all, why would you drink an unknown liquid without asking??

Second, wouldn't you be able to smell it before you manage to take a sip??

Sounds like good riddance to me...

 

[mechanicx]

I wouldn't be suprised if alcohol and/or drug use was a factor.

 

[OtisBlkR1]

straight out of the movie "Better off dead" starring John Cusack..

 

[JC1]

Next on Spike TV, 1001 Ways to Die.

Gassssssed off!

 

[daves87rs]

EEk!

Not a good way to go...

 

[Smokescreen]

I have never tasted alcohol, but I did get some gasoline in my mouth one time when I siphoned one time to drain my own tank.....seriously I can't imagine drinking this stuff, I got nauseated just with a small taste...

 

[SEMI_287]

LOL What a dumb [censored].

 

[Toy4x4]

Well, he is definately a candidate, but there are 9 months to go yet.

 

[ddrumman2004]

Ahh...us humans....always amazing me.

 

[65cuda]

It also said that he spilled some on himself. I know with me when I've siphoned and got gas in my mouth I had to rinse it out several times to get most of the taste out of my mouth. Wonder if maybe he clothes caught on fire and that caused the death? Either way it would be a bad way to go.

 

[rjundi]

You guys are mean about this one.

Read the article and realize he mistook the glass of gasoline in kitchen as beverage at friends kitchen. What moron places gasoline in their kitchen is the real question.

 

[bigmike]

At least he didn't drink the urine in the jar for the neighbor's parked car cowl.

 

[Al]

I doubt that he would have contributed much to society.

 

[FastEddie]

Wow, I've had gasoline in my mouth when siphoning from a tank a couple of time, burns and is nasty, I can't imagine drinking a whole glass and not realizing it was gas.

 

[cchase]

This is what happens when they add ethanol to gas.

 

[morris]

reading about stupid people is a never ending job. we need to make it ok to NOT wear seat belts, then the stupid people will kill themselves, and then they will be out of our way.

 

[spock1]

Originally Posted By: cchase
This is what happens when they add ethanol to gas.

Probably drinking E-85.