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Miami of Ohio University...

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Where legends are born! The cradle of Darwin Award Winners!

On Wednesday, January 2nd, Miami of Ohio sophomore Daniel Ferraro died of injuries sustained while exploding an explosive device in the backyard of his parents' West Chester, Ohio home. Ferraro and three accomplices (including 14 and 15 year old boys) detonated the, apparently homemade, device resulting in a blast heard and felt by individuals throughout the neighborhood.

Ferraro's inadvertent sacrifice was one not only for the continued health and stability of the human gene pool but, given tragic recent events, could very well have had a positive effect on the immediate health and safety of numerous college students in Ohio.

Special mention should be given to young Mr. Ferraro's intended alma mater for the admirable manner in which its students have systematically removed themselves from our gene pool over the course of the previous year. Ferraro's was the fourth death of a Miami student since April. Two students, in separate incidents, died after they were hit by a train walking on campus, while another died after mistakenly overdosing on his own prescription drugs.

Submitted on 01/03/2008

Submitted by: Sam Harmon
Reference: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080103/NEWS01/801030392

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Bruce said:
Maybe Toss: Too Common
We seem to have gotten a lot of submissions involving homemade bombs/fireworks recently. Without more detail on this particular event I'm inclined to toss it for being too common. Let's see what the others have to say. Thanks, Sam.


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I was neutral on the previous version I saw of this because of the write up. This one is much better so I will vote for a DA. Seems there is no end of the mixing of testosterone and things that go BOOM. Thanks, Sam


James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
A MUCH better write-up. The reason I'm going DA here is because a) he was in ROTC (when I was in NROTC, we only blew things up under supervision), and b) he was endangering minors (hopefully they learned something that day). While I agree such things are common, they are not THAT common just yet! Thanks, Sam!


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