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2008 Reader Submission
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A man was driving his car when it suddenly came to a halt due to the water on the pavement. He then proceeded to do the obvious thing: exit the car to push it out of the extremely wet road. Unfortunately, the road's incline made the car move in this poor man's direction as he was pushing it (and we know well how people vs. car confrontations end), resulting in a quick and silent way of "chlorinating the gene pool". Maybe it was the handbrake that came off, or the road suddenly got wetter or drier. Or it was plain Darwinuity at its best.

Submitted on 10/30/2008

Submitted by: José Pedro Correia
Reference: http://diariodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp?section_id=13&id_news=356584 30th October 2008

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
If I understand this correctly, he drove into water deep enough to stall the car then he got out to try to push it out of the water but it trapped him in the water. This seems to be a bit above and beyond the rather common occurrence of idiots simply driving on flooded out roads, so I'll give it the node. Thanks, José.


Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
What Bruce said! Don't most of these morons usually call a towtruck?


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