Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Darwin Awards Qualifier

This guy would be a hands-down Darwin Awards winner, except that he didn't succeed in offing himself.

A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.

Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper.

The accident occurred as Maceda was spraying for pests in his kitchen. Somehow the bug spray ignited a blast that blew out the apartment's front windows and triggered a fire that quickly spread, the newspaper said.
"Somehow the bug spray ignited". "Somehow". How about maybe Einstein here might have been SMOKING? Nah, nobody could be THAT dumb, could they?

Stories like this really put a smile on my beak. Must be my undying love for schadenfreude.

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