...as a Roman Catholic priest, he wasn't in the gene pool in the first place?

Unless choirboys count?

"...as a Roman Catholic priest, he wasn't in the gene pool in the first place?"

Hmmm, athough you kinda have a point here, RC priest *are* part

of the genes pool. At least where I leave.

You just don't get any official certificate for their deeds in this department :-))

Anon, just to avoid being excommunicated, or so I believe.

While this particular story seems to be true, the Darwin Awards people seem to believe any tale related to them with no need for corroboration or confirmation.

But its on teh interwebz so its fine!

Thou Shalt Not Steel is quite funny.

Hell yes, I laugh at a road accident, ESPECIALLY if it was provably down to someone's stupidity. You're joking, right?

I consider someone being stupid on the roads and getting their just desserts to be a very happy event, especially if it results in one less person to run over me. Stay off the cell phone, stop turning around to smack your snot monkeys, and PAY ATTENTION to where your 2-ton SUV is going!

Oh yeah, and to the guy on a Harley-Davidson that doesn't^Wdidn't believe in front brakes and skidded past me through that intersection... HA! That was hilarious!

Laughing at the stupid is a birthright. The stupid tend not to like it, that's their hard luck.

Paris, in the hope that she'll buy some balloons.

Sorry. That was generally funny, but I have to vote for 'Clotheslines' as that genius removed himself about 5 miles from my house.

In response to Mr. Harrison, yes, sometimes you do have to get a laugh out of people who do away with themselves by an obviously retarded means. As a likely resident of California (or some place like it) I can understand his feelings even if I find them naive.

Finally, the Priest... Yes, he removed himself from the gene pool, and entered the pool of jeans. As is states in the holy tombs of South Park, he obviously wasn't allowed to have biological children of his own. Little boys and hands can't get pregnant.

The stupid hunter, well yeah serves him right! But the priest, well whilst it was stupid to get himself lost like that, it was a noble act he was doing, and I for one find the story more saddening than amusing :-(

That priest proves it.

I think this one is a bit ify as a Darwin. From the account, it seems likely that he knew the risks, and ignored them for the sake of doing something he wanted to do. Now that's an entirely different beast from:

A: not comprehending the risks in the first place (as in checking fuel levels with the aid of a lighter)

or

B: thinking that it was possible to mitigate those risks in some idiotic fashion (as in wearing dish washing gloves while using your chainsaw-on-a-stick to cut through a high-powered electrical distribution line)

I have always been a bit amused by the whole chainsaw-on-a-stick concept, by the way. They really do look way more like futuristic polearms to be weilded by zombie hunters than anything suitable for use in the backyard.

The first sentence of the story calls him a priest, he is later described as RC

Ergo folk reasonably assume he was an RC priest

Even though the person was a priest he still could have eventually have left the priesthood and spawned the possibility no mater how small still exists that's why he was eligible some priests do leave the church.

To everyone who says you should not laugh at people like this i ask why?

Why do these people automatically get the respect to not be laughed at?

You know respect has to be earned its not a right, and if these people due to there own stupidity cause hurt and grief to friends and family and trouble for the people around them when someone has to pay for there remains to be scraped off whatever they got themselves killed on I as why do they get the automatic respect to not be laughed at?

Baa whatever my respect for the entire human race is virtually non existent as long as there is "preventable" hunger and thrust in the world, wars because a few people in charge have got there panties in a twist, and general stupidity is the norm in society.

-Jason

"...kamikaze ballooning Brazilian priest..."

I love it when people post rants about things they can't be bothered to check properly. Whoever's time you're wasting, you're overpriced.

If you want to argue with the semantics of the DA then you should obviously think before you write, there is the possibility of the priest or even the 70yr old man reproducing and hence populating the gene pool with their respective offspring's.

A priest renouncing his faith and men having babies in their eighties is not unknown.

Belgium has a coast, Antwerp being one of Europes biggest ports. So not really inland. Geogra-fail

"What eventually happened to the bloke I saw commuting this morning on a Honda CBR600*.....................in four inches of snow with more descending."

If this was in Surrey near Epsom, then this is a work colleague of mine. He turned round and got the train.

I would have thought catholic priests were disqualified for entering into the Darwin Award competition due to their implicit lack of contributions to the gene pool. Or maybe they should just receive a "life-time achievement" award and that wold be that.

Uh, that whole meme here is wrong. As someone stated earlier:

"As is states in the holy tombs of South Park, he obviously wasn't allowed to have biological children of his own. Little boys and hands can't get pregnant."

And then forgot that wanking and sodomy is also not allowed, yet is accepted as happening.

So who says the priest with the pork pipe in the dining room is not a possibility?