Darwin Winners
Evidently, American criminals just aren't smart enough to win awards anymore and the Darwin people had to go overseas to find stupid people:
- The winner for 2009 was a rare Double Darwin, says Wendy Northcutt of the Darwin Awards, and is awarded for a crime gone awry in Belgium.
On Sept. 26, a pair of would-be thieves hatched a plan to withdraw cash from an ATM machine by using dynamite.
"They overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion," the citation notes dryly. "The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in."
We're pretty sure we had a couple of potential nominees locally this year, but we haven't seen any Honorable Mentions popping up in the Darwin archives.
Labels: silly people
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
17 Comments:
""The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in."
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I'm still laughing my balls off!
3 teenagers break into house on 56/michigan. guy is sleeping and it wakes him up. knuckleheads look in the bedroom where he is at and one of them says, "that guy must be dead" and they continue to steal stuff thinking the guy is dead.
Too Many Dummies said...
""The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in."
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I'm still laughing my balls off!
1/04/2010 12:11:00 AM
1st offender was DOA at the hospital, offender #2's body was found in the rubble some hours later.
I recall a bank robbery up north where the offender wrote the note on a deposit ticket with name and address on it. The police went there and arrested the puzzled bank robber.
The original post failed to mention the loss of life in the atm cash liberation blast. Yes the two arsonists did not only overestimate the amount of dynamite to use but they remained too close to the explosion.
I heard of Belgian waffles but are there Belgian pancakes too?
Do we have our own Chicago version of the Darwin Awards???? If not, we should start one.
Sorry but I don't get it.
A separate version of the Darwin Award should be presented to Daley on yearly basis in acknowledgment of the useless CPD flunkies that are promoted meritoriously throughout the calendar year - specifically those in exempt positions.
These supervisors are far more dangerous than a couple yahoos trying to blow up an ATM.
We don't have Darwin awards for criminals, we have them for bosses. I would like to nominate Dana, but that was this year, we'll have to research stuff from last year, but I am sure a lot of people can come up with some good stuff..
Sounds like that scene from "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" They blew the shit out of that rail car with the payroll money inside.
Sent money flying through the sky.
Anonymous said...
I heard of Belgian waffles but are there Belgian pancakes too?
1/04/2010 10:06:00 AM
Yes, and also
Belgian tigers
Belgian congo
Belgian Grand Prix
Anonymous said...
We don't have Darwin awards for criminals, we have them for bosses. I would like to nominate Dana, but that was this year, we'll have to research stuff from last year, but I am sure a lot of people can come up with some good stuff..
1/04/2010 02:58:00 PM
That goofy woman from O'Hare comes to mind, Andolino. She fired Maurer when he complains the airports are shorthanded on police. Then a short time later comes an attempted terrorist attack on a plane landing in Detroit. Same day a plane came into O'Hare with pilot reporting a fire on board. Same airline. No further info on the O'Hare plane.
That goofy woman from O'Hare comes to mind, Andolino. She fired Maurer when he complains the airports are shorthanded on police. Then a short time later comes an attempted terrorist attack on a plane landing in Detroit. Same day a plane came into O'Hare with pilot reporting a fire on board. Same airline. No further info on the O'Hare plane.
1/04/2010 08:45:00 PM
My God. Enough with the Maurer worship already. You are either "Jimmy" himself or that pear shaped Sgt. who isn't going to be a meritorious Lt. now that Jimmy is out of the in-crowd.
What about the dirtbags who tried to rob a pawn shop in Kenosha. First, they pull their shirts over their faces AFTER entering the store and didn't count that the owner would fire a hand cannon and waste one of them.
That "snuff film" murderer, that shit head that did us all a favor, you'll love this, he was just paroled . . . No Surprise, but apparently he was part of that mass parole by the governor! LOL, what a tool Quinn is. Here's the link of the story, also posted on Chicago Breaking News.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/01/parolee-charged-in-teens-murder-caught-on-camera.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChicagoBreakingNews+(Chicago+Breaking+News)
You fools. Don't know s**t.
ATM achieve earth orbit yet? More "space junk" for NORAD to track...
Isn't the Keesing Bandit an "ATM" machine?
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