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Hardback. 304 pages. Autographed.
$15
The human race's most popular humor series returns with a brand-new
collection of macabre mishaps and misadventures. Honoring those who improve
our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, the Darwin
Awards III shows once more how uncommon common sense still is.
Salute the sheriff who inadvertently shot himself--twice! Witness
the insurance defrauder who amputated his leg with a chainsaw! Heed the
story of the farmer who avoided bee stings by sealing his head in a plastic
bag! Cringe at the man crushed by a branch he'd just severed... directly
over his head!
123 new stories, 18 full-page illustrations, plus discussions of transgenic
animals, the origin of life, and more.
Autographed by Author!
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Return to Trees Fails
(18 February 2002, Hawaii) Millennia after an evolving human species descended from the trees, 30-year-old Joshua reversed the process, removing himself from the gene pool while perched in a tree. Joshua had hiked several miles onto a ranch and climbed a Koa tree under cover of darkness, intent upon stealing a branch of the expensive native hardwood. To his credit, he was smarter than a classic cartoon character, and didn't make the mistake of cutting the branch supporting him. However he was not smart enough to avoid cutting a branch directly above his head. The severed branch struck and killed him, and authorities found him still in the tree, twenty feet off the ground.
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