Darwin Award winners

Well comrades, I find myself again considering the criminal classes but this time to laugh at how stupid some of them are in the way that they go about their nefarious activities.

Photo taken on September 26, 2009 shows the destroyed building of Record bank in Dinant after two men tried to steal the cash dispenser of the Record Bank by using dynamite late September 25, 2009. One of the bank robbers was killed in the explosion. (Photo credit MICHEL KRAKOWSKI)

When police arrived at the scene, they found one of them with severe head injuries, and rushed him to hospital.

Investigators initially assumed that his accomplice had managed a getaway, but the second one’s body was excavated from the debris twelve hours later.

Wendy Northcutt, the founder of the annual awards, declared them the 2009 winners of the Darwin Awards, given to those ‘doing the most to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it’.

The two bankrobbers had attempted to make a sizeable withdrawal from the ATM, but died when they overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion.

The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in.

The first robber was rushed to the hospital with severe head trauma; he died shortly after arrival.

You have just got to believe in divine justice when you read stories like this one and the other examples of stupidity  in the source piece are amusing as well.

Cheers Comrades

;)

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