Interesting way to bypass the biological security of the stomach, which is likely to reject (well, apart from the very trained) any big abuses, and use a mean also used for urgent medication.

"A hell of a party" LOL

So what kind of laptop can survive a car-crash better than a Darwin-winner ?

I think that all us IT bunnies demand to know what laptop would still be working fine after being involved in a head-on crash.

Most models that I have used start playing up if you so much as look at them sternly!

I nearly forwarded a story that appeared in Metro on Friday ("Killed - trying to prove white spriits not flammable") as a possible contender for a Darwin Award, but then thought "where's the IT angle?"

For anyone planning trying this - if you're going to use Grolsch or Champagne, might I advise you to decant it into something else first. Otherwise you're in for a world of hurt.

I thought the icon here was about as accurate as I could hope for.

You're welcome.

Darwin Awards, are pretty poor these days.Originally the nominee got the award if they had NOT already procreated and they either die or lose their baby making equipment.

Now it seems that if they die or are injured in an amusing fashijn they get an award.

Pants I say, go back to the original scheme at least we knew the winners were one offs.

Tammy's better off without the drunken bum.

What precisely has changed? These latest additions seem to me to be in line with the great traditions of Darwin and the survival of the fittest theory!

The award is still only given when the person dies or cannot further reproduce as you state although there are "honourable mentions" categories for silly injuries that don't quite result in the necessary damage.

..."bottoms up!"

So, coming and going at the same time

"If being 6 times over killed him, he wasn't much of a drinker!"

Maybe the 8 bags of peanuts and the doner kebab that his wife also shoved 'up there' were contributing factors?

"Maybe the 8 bags of peanuts and the doner kebab that his wife also shoved 'up there' were contributing factors?"

Or quite possibly when it realised the curry was travelling in the wrong direction?

Coat on -> exit

@lansalot - no you don't. you just get projectile....

@Anonymous Coward - the peanuts would have reacted, resulting in a claymore-mine reaction !!

But where does it say that the guy has had children? In the Darwin Awards site at least there is no indication he's had any. Just because he is old, it does not mean he procreated already. But he still might have, he wasn't THAT old...

"Here's mud in your eye!"

The brown overcoat, thanks.

Should have used Brown Ale.

"heading", even.

Bloody hangover.

Coat please

I was once asked to repair a laptop that had been in a car crash. The car had gone over a telagraph pole in the road at night (it had fallen off a lorry apparently), the pole had ripped out the petrol tank, which exploded.

The driver survived as did his laptop which just had a few burn marks on the casing but when he tried to boot it he got the error "non systems disk or disk error" so he brough it to me to see if I could do any thing with it.

I ejected a floppy disk from the drive and it booted fine.

This was in about 1994.

or pussy, anyway....

where's the icon for 'death by punmanship'?