Darwin Award Winner

[River_Rat_459]

I meant to post this the first time I read it, but forgot all about it. At any rate, we have a Darwin award winner here:


NEW MARTINSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - A Wetzel County man who uses an oxygen tank to help him breathe suffered severe burns when his beard caught on fire as he tried to light a tobacco pipe.

New Martinsville Fire Chief Larry Couch said Saturday that the 76-year-old man remains in critical condition at the West Penn Burn Center in Pittsburgh.

Couch says firefighters responded to a home in New Martinsville on Wednesday. He says the man's thick hair and heavy beard helped trap oxygen that then ignited when the pipe was lit.

The man was taken to Wetzel County Hospital, then transferred to the hospital in Pittsburgh.

Couch tells The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register (http://bit.ly/WozQlP) that the man was hurt in a similar manner less than a year ago. He declined to release the man's name.

SOURCE: http://www.wdtv.com/wdtv.cfm?func=view&section=5-News&item=Wetzel-County-Mans-Beard-Ignites-When-He-Lights-Pipe6755

[toby2533]

this actually happens a lot, I remember several cases of people that the O2 tubing got into a oven, fireplace, furnace or other hotspot and the fire going up the tube into there face and burning.

[GriffinSentinel]

I think it qualifies. The first time is an accident after that you're asking for it.

You can get more stories at the Darwin Awards (http://www.darwinawards.com/) website.

[MuleTheDestroyer]

I felt bad for the Guy until I read the end.of the.article where it said this is the second time in a year that he had done this. Still don't think that it qualifies as a Darwin award though because he survived.

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[iamthesgt]

I think it qualifies. The first time is an accident after that you're asking for it.

You can get more stories at the Darwin Awards (http://www.darwinawards.com/) website.


I felt bad for the Guy until I read the end.of the.article where it said this is the second time in a year that he had done this. Still don't think that it qualifies as a Darwin award though because he survived.

Nope, he doesn't get a Darwin because he can still pass his stupidity to the next generation. For a Darwin, you have to (a) die or (b) injure your reproductive organs such that you can not procreate.

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