Darwin Award of the week.

Total idiot drives into reservoir and drowns.

Though the Telegraph headline says:

“Man dies after satnav sends him into a reservoir.” Story.

Thank you for making a small contribution to the future of mankind for removing yourself from the gene pool.

32 thoughts on “Darwin Award of the week.”

  2. Jan, stupidity is sometimes a terminal condition. Some people are less intelligent than others, but no-one needs to be stupid.

  3. PS. In the mountains in Wales. I was training in the area of Llansyllin once, full kit, weapon, 60 -odd pound load, individual, 35 mile, free navigation, best time route march. SOP is to make your height early, because you’re knackered later. I struggled up through the heather line and found a (sort of,) road heading the way I wanted to go. Humping along, red-faced, sweating and cursing, I rounded a turn in the road and came face to face with a vision of loveliness in full Welsh dress, leaning prettily on the gate in the wall around a garden in full flower in front of a picture-postcard cottage. Kept me going the other 20 -odd miles, that did 😀

  6. No, no, Jan, you miss the point. Some people are just too dumb to live and a little chlorine in the gene pool is both necessary and refreshing. There was, for example, the true tale of the armed robber who tried to hold up a store in deepest ‘Mer’i’ca. The store was also a gun shop full of (armed) customers, with the gilding of a cop who had called in from the police station next door for a coffee and doughnut. The would-be thief sent a warning shot into the ceiling much to the displeasure of the assembled throng who returned immediate and collective fire, ejecting the award winner permanently from the pool.

    Christina would approve I am sure, as do I.

    OZ

  10. I have been using a satnav since the days when we had to drive our tanks in a straight line over a measured mile to calibrate them each time they were switched on. When you come to a point where the satnav says, ‘go down this road,’ and there is a road sign saying ‘low bridge,’ what do you do?

  13. Janus, No. 😀 I have a confession, though. I once navigated the main Headquarters of an Armoured Division into a Cul-de-sac in a town in Germany – 50+ armoured and soft-skinned vehicles. Took a bit of living down that one 🙂

  14. Total idiot drives into reservoir and drowns.

    bravo22c :

    Janus, No. :-D I have a confession, though. I once navigated the main Headquarters of an Armoured Division into a Cul-de-sac in a town in Germany – 50+ armoured and soft-skinned vehicles. Took a bit of living down that one :-)

    QED

  18. bravo22c :

    PS. … came face to face with a vision of loveliness in full Welsh dress, leaning prettily on the gate in the wall around a garden in full flower in front of a picture-postcard cottage. Kept me going the other 20 -odd miles, that did :-D

    Sounds like a mirage of Myfanwy, the most beautiful woman in Powys. She fell for a poet but chucked him when a richer bloke came along. Lovely wistful song, though

  20. bravo22c :

    PS. In the mountains in Wales. I was training in the area of Llansyllin once, full kit, weapon, 60 -odd pound load, individual, 35 mile, free navigation, best time route march. SOP is to make your height early, because you’re knackered later. I struggled up through the heather line and found a (sort of,) road heading the way I wanted to go. Humping along, red-faced, sweating and cursing, I rounded a turn in the road and came face to face with a vision of loveliness in full Welsh dress, leaning prettily on the gate in the wall around a garden in full flower in front of a picture-postcard cottage. Kept me going the other 20 -odd miles, that did :-D

    EX Fan Dance circa Jan 79. In my case it was a pretty Welsh sheep that winked at me, followed by a good kick up the arse by a member of the DS. 🙂

  21. OZ thoroughly approve the USA tale.

    Anyone who is in charge of a vehicle and cannot read a map deserves to die for the safety of the rest of us!
    Sat navs are for the mentally defective.

    I hate to say this, but it amazes me how few women can read a simple road map, definitely worse than men and a lot of ‘them’ leave a great deal to be desired.
    And no, I have never been lost on any continent even off road.
    I do have to admit to always having the top marks in Cartography at uni, both interpreting and making maps.
    For the life of me I cannot understand why map reading is not part of the driving test, I wonder if it is even part, still, of the school curriculum?
    Morons, beset by morons.

  25. Errrrm, having accidentally reversed a 4WD tractor mower into the pond, following an unsuccessful attempt to mow a steep bank, I am not qualified to criticise – I did leap off like a startled gazelle, into six feet of freezing cold water, which prevented my joining the Darwin Awards list.
    I had visions of its pinning me underwater and chopping me up like a giant mincer…

  27. Oh, hang on, I’ve just cottoned on. Silly me.

    So, if intelligent people make a fatal mistake they are stupid and deserve to die; stupid people who make mistakes deserve to die anyway.

    Right! 😉

  28. Oh, blimey. I’ve just seen CO’s comment and if you are a Senegalese female without a degree in geography who uses a Sat Nav, you don’t stand an earthly! 😉

  29. From what I can make out 90% of humanity might as well be illiterate Senegalese with a satnav!
    Roll on Armageddon and good clear out.
    The world is woefully overpopulated with morons.

  32. I have an arrangement with my son. When I start to babble, he’s going to take me for a nice walk at St Margaret’s at Cliffe.* ‘Well, I don’t know, he was right here a minute ago…’ 🙂

    *Beachy Head is so passe, doncha think?

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