Charles Darwin's Darwin Awards 
HOME
Darwin Awards
Honorable Mentions
Urban Legends
Personal Accounts
Slush Pile
2007 September Slush
(DA) Shortcut?
(DA) Stab in the Dark
(?) Trouser Cobra kills Cambodian man
(PA) Hedge Mower
Legally Blind Man Killed While Driv
(HM) Rattlesnake in Mouth
Snakecharmer: Not!
(PA) Western Massacre
a bridge to far!
(Hmm) Hey everybody, watch this Fly !
Killacycle lives up to it's name?
(PA) Billy the Kid
How to free an elevator
(?) 16 Killed in Truck meant for Five
murderer 0 and victim 1
Backside firework prank backfires
Head in the machine
(PA) Splitting Headache
(DA) Weight Lift
Where NOT to sleep
Ignited Arsonist Shoots Self
Attempted energy theft kills father
Student tried to jump over car
Man killed building pipe bomb
Testicles & Fireworks
Jet Ski Won't Turn
Barbequed deputy
A Stolen Trick, A Darwinian Treat
home security
Booby trap gets the Boob,and an arm
How NOT to use an emergency brake
Train and Lawnchair Man
here kitty kitty
Deadly Mirror
Golf Hazard
Twice a charm
Man Impaled Trying to Climb Fence
Hood Surfing
(HM) Police Arrest Woman Allegedly Weari
extreme redneck atv riding.
(HM) Man bitten after putting rattler in
man drowns trying to ,swim to party
Fisherman Blows Up!
suffocated by sand
Out of gas?
Deadly Horseplay Claims a Woman
gunpowder redneck explosion.
Man sticks Pet Rattlesnake in mouth
Drowned Drunk
What's that smell?
Wisconsin man sues when aftershave
Woman hit by 4 cars to save dog
Personal Account:Stomach 1, Brain 0
Police Find Man's Body, Guillotine
Suicide by Guillotine
Motorcycle Stupidity - Personal Acc
Man put rattlesnake in mouth
Older Slush 
 
~ Randomizer ~
Newsletter
Gift Shop
Rules  Search
Contact Darwin
Submit a Story
Philosophy Forum
Home

  

Darwin Awards
2007 Slush Pile

This item was recently submitted by a reader.
Should I include it in the archive?
Vote to tell me what *you* think!

Deadly Mirror

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

(Sept. 20, 2007) In the dorms, anything can happen. A few weeks ago, one of the mirrors in the bathroom just outside of my room was broken. When the school finally got around to changing the mirror, my roommate decided he wanted to keep the pieces of the BROKEN mirror to decorate the room. Lucky for me, his bed was the one away from the door... Until he could figure out what to do with these shards, he decided to stand the pieces up between the end of his bed and his desk. This wouldn't be a problem in itself but he had to get around his bed... There were two options. One was to take the safe route by going over the bed. The other way was over the remains of the mirror. If he took the route over the bed, this wouldn't be an honorable mention...

Needless to say, he took the route he should have known better to take. After all, he is an engineering and physics major. In this attempt to get over the mirror, he did succeed but also in getting a cut all the way down to the bone... At first, the cut didn't bleed much, so he thought a few tissues would be enough to stop the bleeding. He soon discovered that this wasn't enough. He then decided to call a friend whom happened to be in class. He told his friend that he would meet him in the lobby...

Once he got down to the lobby, they called an ambulance which took him to the hospital.

He was quite lucky that our dorm has an elevator considering the dorm is 9 stories. He was even luckier that this cut didn't it a vein, or worse yet, a vein.

As a result of this, he did get rid of most of the mirror but kept one shard. Lucky for me, he moved this piece to the back of his closet. I knew there was a reason I wanted a different roommate!

Submitted on 09/27/2007

Submitted by: Michael Hejny
Reference: none

Copyright © 2007 DarwinAwards.com

Great? 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Awful?
Love it! Hate it!
>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
He may be a physics/engineering major but he still has a LOT to learn. Thanks for a great story!


James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Thanks, Michael! I cannot see any aesthetic reason one would want to keep a broken mirror around in the first place! I wonder if he's as swift at engineering as he is in the common sense department. I HOPE so, for someday we may enter a building or traverse a bridge built by this gent...and THEN what??!!


The Darwin Awards Gift Shop

$15 Grenade Juggler T-Shirt / White
Heavy 100% cotton Hanes Beefy-T with a man juggling hand grenades on the front... and his empty smoking tennis shoes on the back! Based on a true story.
Buy the Grenade Juggler T-Shirt

 

Slush Pile
Slush Pile Rejects


Advanced Search

HomeRulesFAQsAwardsSlushSite Map
DarwinAward | HonorableMention | PersonalAccount | UrbanLegend