A new canadate for the Darwin Awards

[Flarecobra]

I got this in my E-mail today from a friend of mine who lives up in Ohio:

A Garfield Alloys employee opening a drum of magnesium with a metel grinds Dec. 29 started the chain reaction of explosions that whiped out the company's magnesium recyling plant and two neighburing businesses, according to the state fire marshal

Now that takes the cake for stupidity.

[Futae No Kiwami]

"Magnesium Eh? Since when has THAT Ever caused any explos-BOOM-!"

Sorry, but its both the wrong, and the right thread for that. idiots..magnesium is quick volitale and ignitable if you give it something to ignite with..

[Jack of Spades]

"I'm gonna doom the plant now! Doom doom de doomdoom de doomdoom doooom doomdy doom doom de dommdydoom!"

My brother locked the cat in his room yesterday. It diarehead aall over his room and ripped anything soft to shreds.

[Futae No Kiwami]

THE DOOM SONG! the doom song owns everything ;p

[The Devil Himself]

My question is, "Why? Just why?"

[Wintermute]

i bet it looked pretty.

[Jack of Spades]

Yeah that'd be really cool to watch

[Bob The Mercenary]

Garfield Alloys? Is that the one in Garfield, NJ? Cause I pass it every time I visit my grandparents and the last time I saw it was about 2 months ago. It's about half an hour from me.

[Martyr]

It takes the cake for bad luck. After everything I've done, I've resigned myself to my mortality.

I've made mistakes. Fortunately, I haven't been put into the kind of power where my mistakes could create such a catastrophe.

On the other hand, he, carrying that responsibility, should've known better. But, being human, it's hard to always be friggin' perfect.

Unfortunately, the man deserves no mercy. Sucks... I'll be him someday.

[Flarecobra]

It was in Garfield Hights, Ohio.

[Dante]

I'm a combat medic. I am definitely going to wind up offing someone sooner or later...

[Jack of Spades]

It won't be your fault. Your'e a medic you take care of the people already injured.

[Krylo]

I'm relatively certain he means killing someone on purpose who may have otherwise survived because they're in his medical tent for something really stupid. Like shooting themselves in the stomach while cleaning their gun after they've gone through boot camp and military training on how to properly clean a gun.

Or I may be totally wrong. But that's pretty rare.

[Illuminatus]

This kind of stuff makes my job easier. If all the stupid people in the world just ceased to exist, I would be tha happiest ANYTHING alive.

[Raiden]

Is the guy still alive? I mean, he was right there when the magnesium went off.

[Atronflame]

Darwin Award = Award for Death by Stupidity.
Common sense should dictate, by all means - he's fucked. Well, dead fucked. err. Dead. Yeah.

[Krylo]

I think there was one guy who earned one while still alive though... but he couldn't reproduce anymore. It's really an award for removing yourself from the gene pool due to your own stupidity. But yah, he's pretty much dead if he's a candidate for the darwins.

[IHateMakingNames]

Is that the pipe cleaner guy?

[Krylo]

I'm not sure if that's the same guy or not... might have been the dust devil guy too (trying to get some pleasure from the dust devil... but there's fan blades in there so... CHOP!)... someone should go look through the Darwin Awards and find out.

[Illuminatus]

The Darwin Awards are for people who remove themselves from the gene pool either by death or, ummm, castration or something, so there are quite a few living Darwin Awardees who just can't reproduce.