2009 Honorable Mentions

The stupidity displayed by the participants in the following tales stops short of the ultimate Darwin Awards sacrifice. Nevertheless, we salute the spirit and innovation of their misadventures.

Caps'n'Hammer Kid 2009 Honorable Mention Unconfirmed by Darwin o (2009) Everyone does dumb things when they're kids. My dumbest decision was almost a life-altering event. At that time, caps were readily available. For the youngsters in the audience, caps are tiny explosive charges sold for use in toy guns. Squeeze the trigger and a striker hits the cap, making it explode. I had a pack of caps that were individually 'printed' on adhesive-backed paper. Having experimented with using a hammer to detonate 'em, in true dumb-kid fashion I moved on to super-size it. I stacked the caps an inch and a half high, knelt down on the sidewalk and hit the stack with a 2-pound ball-peen hammer. The resulting explosion kicked the hammer back clear to my shoulder, missing my fragile young face by inches. No harm except for a bruise on the shoulder and ringing ears, but an alarming near miss none the less. Sometimes I wonder how any human male survives childhood. ORIGINAL SUBMISSION DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2009 Submitted by: Sawdust Jones Reference: http://darwinawards.com/slush/200905/pending20090509-202016.html Awful? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Great? Hate it! Love it!

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