 Hard Work Rewards
1999 Darwin Award Nominee
Unconfirmed by Darwin
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(8 February 1999, Georgia) Fred Brooks of Forest Park, a 46 year old plumber seeking employment, used shovels to remove a manhole cover on a street and entered the aperture. In Fred's
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haste to identify the source of a sewer blockage, he neglected to set orange warning cones. Upon exiting the manhole, he was struck by the undercarriage of an oncoming car, and was killed.
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Submitted by Jim Cleary, Adam Kintner
Reference: Associated Press, WSB TV Atlanta GA
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The Darwin Awards Gift Shop
Hardback. 327 pages. Autographed.
$15
185 Stories! In the ongoing saga of Survival of the Fittest, meet the
thief who steals electrical wires without shutting off the current! Marvel
at the would-be pilot who suspends his lawnchair from helium balloons!
Learn from the man who peers into a gas can using a cigarette lighter...!
This book also includes a History of the Darwin Awards,
Darwin Haiku, and a dozen humorous discussions of the implications of
evolution, including the origin of idiots, and the role of
testosterone.
Autographed by Author!
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