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2006 Darwin Award Nominee
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(August 2006, Brazil) August brings us a winner from Brazil, who tried to disassemble a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) by driving back and forth over it with a car. This technique was ineffective, so he escalated to pounding the RPG with a sledgehammer. The second try worked--in a sense. The explosion proved fatal to one man, six cars, and the repair shop wherein the efforts took place.

Fourteen more RPG were found in a car parked nearby. Police believe the ammunition was being scavenged to sell as scrap metal. If it wasn't scrap then, it certainly is now!

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Reference 1: http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4654276
Reference 2: Odia (Brazil), msnbc.com, UK Daily Mail.
A Reader writes: "I worked clearing mines for many years. These people are poor, and have little choice but to scavenge metal to feed their families. It's not stupid behaviour, although many are killed. A sad state of affairs."
Some have questioned the merits of these nominations, saying many a poor person has to scavenge metal in a dangerous manner, to put food on the family table. Consider Do It Yourself Landmine and Mining for Elephants. I'm debating eliminating this whole category. Landmines.

Debate Landmines in the Philosophy Forum.

A reader pleads, "Let's keep Fatal Footsie where the guys played landmine roulette under the table!"

Reader Comments:
"Wham...wham...kaboom!"
"This is the hardest egg I ever had to crack!"
"A way to get more scrap metal than you planned for."
"MMORPG (Massively Moronic Ouchie Rocket Propelling Grenade)"


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