Charles Darwin's Darwin Awards 
HOME
Darwin Awards
Honorable Mentions
Urban Legends
Personal Accounts
Slush Pile
2007 December Slush
(?) Good Samaritans
(?) Just Two For The Air
DA: The Alchemist
(NO)Tigers maul zoo visitor to death
(?)slagged
(?)Escape to Death
(HM)Man Nearly Dies Downing Vodka at Ai
(DA)Why Didn't the Truck Blow Up?
(?)19 year old killed By his own pipe
(?)snowmobile rider killed on I-84
(?)Can't they do anything right?
(Hmm)Teen Taunts Tiger, Gets Killed
(DA)Burglar cable ascent and descent
Sleepy Boater on Auto Pilot
Officers investigating bizarre free
Driving Switch-a-Roo
gaurd rail 1 biker 0
Crashing Rage-aholic
It's About the Pin, Stupid
The idiot and the firework.
Hunting from a Kayak
Pizza Pal Perishes Pitifully
Desperate lover
Cyclist who crashed with rattlesnak
Crime didn't pay
Dried out thief
smokin berries
Live on TV, it's 'railroad chicken'
Barely survived as teenager!
Dad has gone, fishing....
Fuel drum explodes in teen's face
Firecracker!
Drunken Leaper
Homemade bomb blast kills teen
Click or Screw?
A Hand of Light
Balls of Fire
Run over by own car
Death at a Football Game
Road Rage Causes Deadly Accident
Man injured in fall from Gatlinburg
Moronic Ski Day
Bigfoot Hoax Backfires
Stump Remover
Man Shots Self in Leg
Wally Trolley Dash
death by booze and lapdance
snake souvinere survivor
potato gun
stonner electricion electricuted
house got burned because of spider
Older Slush 
 
~ Randomizer ~
Newsletter
Gift Shop
Rules  Search
Contact Darwin
Submit a Story
Philosophy Forum
Home

  

Darwin Awards
2008 Slush Pile

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

Stump Remover

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

My friend told me once about this thing that happened in Porterville to a friend of her's back in 1998.

Jared, 30, was wanting to remove a stump from his back yard at his house. Instead of bringing in a proffesional, he decides to remove the stump by wrapping a chain around the stump and the towing hitch on his GMC van. The van pulled forward, hit the end of the slack and stopped, losing its traction. Jared leans over and looks through the back window of his van to see if the chain was pulling the stump up at all, and just his luck, it did. The van caught traction long enough to pull the stump free from the ground, and the large chunk of wood flew into the air. It smashed into the back windshield and continued to hit in the face. Jared went to the hospital and came out with several teeth missing and blind in one eye.

I have no proof of this, but it cracked me up.

Submitted on 12/01/2007

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: 1998

Copyright © 2008 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
Jared is lucky that more of the chain & stump didn't come through the window or he wouldn't have survived to see the results of his actions. Thanks for sending this in.


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Funny story. Thanks.


The Darwin Awards Gift Shop

$16 Smoking Crater T-Shirt / Black
Heavy 100% cotton, black Hanes Beefy-T with an inadvisable cigarette break on the front... a smoking crater on the back! Click on the image for a full view. Based on true stories. Errata: TNT will not explode in the presence of a lit cigarette. The man was actually sitting on a crate of gelignite.
Buy the Smoking Crater T-Shirt

 

Slush Pile
Slush Pile Rejects


Advanced Search

HomeRulesFAQsAwardsSlushSite Map
DarwinAward | HonorableMention | PersonalAccount | UrbanLegend