Darwinian Candidates - When Bizarre Death Occurs

[Mr. Desmond]

If we don't already have one, a thread for people who removed themselves from the future gene pool in bizarre fashion.

July 18, 2015

Dallas Morning News:

Birthday Celebration Gone Awry -- Couldn't Count above 21?

Police say a Dallas man celebrating his 21st birthday with his relatives accidentally shot himself and died early Saturday.

The shooting was reported about 1:20 a.m. at a home in the 1500 block of Harlendale Avenue, which is in east Oak Cliff, police spokeswoman Melinda Gutierrez said in an email.

PJoseph Perez, who turned 21 on Thursday, started firing a handgun while he was celebrating his birthday with his relatives, Gutierrez said.

She said Perez’s relatives took the gun away from him, but he got it back and accidentally shot himself with it.

He was taken to Methodist Dallas Medical Center, and died about 2 a.m., according to the Dallas County medical examiner’s office.

Gutierrez said detectives believe alcohol was a factor in the shooting.

Police ruled Perez’s death accidental after interviewing family members.

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July 4, 2015

Only in Texas ... or Florida or Anywhere in the Deep South...

(CNN)A man who apparently mocked alligators, then jumped in the water -- despite warning signs -- is dead after being attacked in Texas.

Orange County Police were called to Burkart's Marina near the Louisiana state line early Friday morning after reports that Tommie Woodward, 28, and an unidentified woman were swimming in a bayou and had been attacked by a large alligator.

Woodward's body was found several hours later. The woman was not injured.

An alligator lurks in the bayou off Burkart's Marina

Orange County Justice of the Peace Rodney Price told CNN affiliate KFDM that Woodward ignored verbal warnings and a posted "No Swimming Alligators" sign and seemed to mock the deadly creatures before going in the water.

"He removed his shirt, removed his billfold ... someone shouted a warning and he said 'blank the alligators' and jumped in to the water and almost immediately yelled for help," Price said.

The "No Swimming Alligators" sign was posted this week after a 10-foot alligator was spotted in the bayou waters.

Witness heard 'An alligator's got him'

"Please do not go swimming, there's a bigger alligator out here. Just please stay out of the water," witness and marina employee Michelle Wright said she told Woodward.

She said the next thing she heard was the woman screaming, "An alligator's got him." Wright said she used a flashlight in the darkness to scan the water.

In an emotional interview with KFDM, Wright said, "I saw his body floating face down. And then he's out there for a couple of seconds and then he's dragged back down. And then he comes back up still face down and then he gets pulled down again. And then he just disappears."

Wright, who said she knew the victim and his family, said it was a moment she would never forget. She described the events that started out as a late night swim as "heartbreaking."

[Abu3baid]

What's wrong with these people.. You should put the story of the guy that blew his head off after he was warned not to light the fireworks of his head? Yeah, you guessed it.. Alcohol was involved in that too..

[boogielicious]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/06/maine-man-dies-after-launching-fireworks-from-his-head/

[Lihu]

What's more frightening is that these people were possibly part of the normal workforce. Just imagine any one of them was doing something pivotal in your life. Ambulance driver, bank clerk, security guard, CNA at a hospital, whatever. . .just imagine. . .