Why Kids Need Model Trains to Experiment With...

[Reckers]

"...the Darwin awards for 2009;

5.. A teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds
received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries,
the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could
get his head to a moving train before he was hit.":eek:

[tankist]

Nice!

although i can't understand how would he get away with less then "brains splattered' head wound from that.

[big ed]

"...the Darwin awards for 2009;

5.. A teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds
received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries,
the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could
get his head to a moving train before he was hit.":eek:


What was his IQ!?:eek:


ALL I CAN THINK OF TO SAY IS DUH!

[Diver Doug]

Any word on where this happened? Or would the duelling banjos give it away?:laugh:

[Hopcopter]

Evolution in action!! Although with true natural selection the train would have had to have killed him. I thought you had to die to win a Darwin award. The best one is still the guy who strapped a missile onto his Chevy Impala and ended up on the side of a cliff.

[Reckers]

No word on where, but I seem to recall it was in the northeast US. Hear that, T-Man?
My favorite was a Darwin award for a man who blew his own cajones off: the criteria was, after all, to get ones self out of the gene pool as opposed to killing ones self. The award winner was a Texan who went frog-gigging with a buddy. Afterwards, they threw a gunny-sack of frogs in the back end and the headlights wouldn't work. He had one of those cylindrical fuses that kept blowing. After a few beers, he remembered he had a .22 long rifle bullet that looked just like... A short while later, driving down the road, the overheated bullet went off, drilling him in that most critical of places. The truck left the road and hit a tree. Both went thru the windshield and were injured, but his gene pool contributions were now over. Accident was called in, police called the wife at home and told her about the accident. Her first question was "What about the frogs?" Upon hearing the frogs were okay, she raced to the scene of the accident and took possession of the gunny-sack and left for home.

[T-Man]

Myth busters proved that one wrong. All urban legend.
I couldn't get a rocket.:ohwell:

[Reckers]

I was wrong---the winning state was Ohio!

Bowling Green, Ohio student Robert Ricketts, 19, had his head bloodied when he was struck by a Conrail train. He told police he was trying to see how close to the moving train he could place his head without getting hit.

1998 Darwin Awards, notation "Confirmed true" on the site.

This was unconfirmed, but too good to pass over:

Iowa) Several years ago, an adventurous pair decided to take their ropes and rappel off the Boone Scenic Valley Railroad train over the Des Moines river. Words can't describe how breathtakingly high this narrow train bridge is over the river valley. The open train ride over the abyss is both stunningly beautiful and somewhat nerve-wracking.
Our adventurers had to be completely fearless, because they walked to the middle of this narrow railroad bridge, tied off their ropes, and began to rappel down. When the train came by on it's daily tour of the valley, their one mistake became apparent. They had tied the ropes to the sturdiest support possible: the steel train tracks...