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Fatal a-Traction
2007 Darwin Award Nominee
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(October 2007, UK) John, 71, used wood and rope to make a traction device to ease his wife's neck pain. But applying traction to the neck takes a delicate touch. His DIY (do-it-yourself) medical device turned out to be a gallows, as John found out when he tested it and hanged himself.

The Coroner's verdict: Death by Misadventure.

Darwin says, "Story is UNCONFIRMED: the lurid online source is not a bastion of responsible reporting. However, if it can be confirmed, it's an apt nominee."

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Submitted by: Giles Osborne
Reference: News of the World

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Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection

Hardback. 240 pages. Autographed.
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A fresh collection of magnificent misadventures! Lust, Vanity, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, and Wrath extract an evolutionary toll on the wicked. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety video. Witness the man who becomes a victim of his own strange passion for jumping into rivers. Heed the honest bricklayer who loses a battle of wits with 300 pounds of tools.

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