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Darwin Awards!
« on: January 17, 2012, 03:34:56 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJghe0ofkj0

Actual video of candidate with motorized wheel chair and elevator.
He gets pissed off, bangs the elevator door and...........he's on the list!

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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2012, 03:37:44 PM »
Quote from: Jamie B on January 17, 2012, 03:34:56 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJghe0ofkj0

Actual video of candidate with motorized wheel chair and elevator.
He gets pissed off, bangs the elevator door and...........he's on the list!



Given the title of the thread, I read that as "mortarized" wheel chair...
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2012, 04:08:41 PM »
More like morgue-a-tized. Did he survive?
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2012, 04:19:06 PM »
Quote from: fistful on January 17, 2012, 04:08:41 PM
More like morgue-a-tized. Did he survive?
Nope.
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2012, 04:23:20 PM »
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2012, 04:54:16 PM »
A.) Not a wheelchair, moterized scooter.

B.) That was hystarical.
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2012, 07:52:45 PM »
Well, he won't do that again will he.
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2012, 08:30:36 PM »
Dude got the shaft, fer sure....
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2012, 08:46:35 PM »
After some Googling, this appears to have happened in Korea, August 2010, and the guy fell about six meters and died.

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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2012, 09:29:24 PM »
Quote from: makattak on January 17, 2012, 03:37:44 PM
Given the title of the thread, I read that as "mortarized" wheel chair...

Call Red Jacket.....a 82mm Hoveround....that would be a game-changer.....
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2012, 11:47:10 PM »
You know a guy died and this shouldn't be funny, but then again I'm morbid so I laughed my ass off.
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2012, 11:55:29 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on January 17, 2012, 11:47:10 PM
You know a guy died and this shouldn't be funny, but then again I'm morbid so I laughed my ass off.
I too am guilty as charged.....
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2012, 12:21:26 AM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on January 17, 2012, 11:47:10 PM
You know a guy died and this shouldn't be funny, but then again I'm morbid so I laughed my ass off.

When it's their own fault it's hard to feel bad about it. Particularly when it was doing something as boneheaded as this.  :facepalm:
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2012, 01:38:09 AM »
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was the wheelchair ok?

From the comments below. 
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2012, 06:17:37 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on January 17, 2012, 11:47:10 PM
You know a guy died and this shouldn't be funny, but then again I'm morbid so I laughed my ass off.

No, it should be. The life lesson to be learned here is if you die in such an incrediably stupid way, people will laugh at your demise.
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2012, 01:59:27 PM »
Quote from: Jamie B on January 17, 2012, 03:34:56 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJghe0ofkj0

Actual video of candidate with motorized wheel chair and elevator.
He gets pissed off, bangs the elevator door and...........he's on the list!

Wow.  That's even worse than the similar case (from Atlantic City?) that my wife worked - woman on one of those scooters *CLAIMED* that her scooter ran away on her, driving into an elevator door and into an empty elevator shaft.  I believe she lived, don't think it was her estate filing the suit against the scooter manufacturer for alleged malfunction of medical hardware. Video evidence from around the casino showed her driving it... aggressively, shall we say. The device manufacturer made out okay, once that came out.
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2012, 02:13:54 PM »
Quote from: erictank on January 19, 2012, 01:59:27 PM
Wow.  That's even worse than the similar case (from Atlantic City?) that my wife worked - woman on one of those scooters *CLAIMED* that her scooter ran away on her, driving into an elevator door and into an empty elevator shaft.  I believe she lived, don't think it was her estate filing the suit against the scooter manufacturer for alleged malfunction of medical hardware. Video evidence from around the casino showed her driving it... aggressively, shall we say. The device manufacturer made out okay, once that came out.

This and the OP goes to show you just can't fix stupid.
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2012, 02:28:36 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on January 18, 2012, 06:17:37 PM
No, it should be. The life lesson to be learned here is if you die in such an incrediably stupid way, people will should laugh at your demise.

FTFY!! :)
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Re: Darwin Awards!
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2012, 03:27:41 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on January 19, 2012, 02:13:54 PM
This and the OP goes to show you just can't fix stupid.
The guy in the video took care of his own stupidity.
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