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Grumpy's favourite stupid people

Just when you think that people's stupidity can't get any worse - along comes a group of twerps who prove that some people don't really deserve to be on this planet.

It may be a harsh call, but check these duffers out.

Paneful End
A lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. He was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students.

Hotdog Left Him Cold
A disorderly American was creating mayhem in a St Louis market when he was told the police had been called. The bright spark grabbed a hot dog, shoved it in his mouth, and walked out without paying for it. Police found him unconscious in front of the store and watched as paramedics removed the six-inch sausage from his throat. It had choked him to death.

Oh Deer!
A Spanish poacher shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock - and was killed instantly when it fell on him.

Blast of the Party
A man at a West Virginia party placed a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth and tongue. Apparently the chap bit the blasting cap as a prank to show another partygoer how to set it off.

Grave Mistake
A man died on a beach when a three-metre hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beachgoers said he dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting
in a beach chair at the bottom when it collapsed, burying him beneath two-metres of sand.

Vested Interest
A police cadet was stabbed to death by fellow cadet who was trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest he was wearing.

Must Have Been Legless
An Oklahoma youth tried to kill a millipede with a shot from his .22-caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a rock near the hole and hit his mate in the head, fracturing his skull.

Hot Idea
An Ohio man attempting to clean out cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a
propane torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his house.

Bung….
A 22-year-old man was found dead after he tried to use occy straps (the stretchy little ropes with hooks on each end) to bungee jump off a 20-metre railroad bridge. He taped a bunch of these straps
together, wrapped an end around one foot, anchored the other end to the bridge, jumped .... and hit the pavement. The clever lad hadn't noticed the straps were longer than the drop.

One to Drop
A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites after playing catch with a friend. They were playing catch with the rattler.

Oh No
A 39-year-old American chap died in a freak accident involving his washing machine. According to sources the idiot was trying to speed up the laundry process and stuffed more than 20 kilos of clothes into his washing machine by climbing on top of the washer and attempting to force the clothing into the basin. He accidentally kicked the washing machine's ON button, causing him to lose his balance and get both feet stuck in the washer.
Unable to free himself, he started thrashing around as the machine's agitator went into gear.
To add to his woes his head banged against a nearby shelf in the laundry room, knocking over a bottle of bleach, which poured over his face, blinding him.
At about the same time, a large box of baking soda fell from the shelf, startling the guy's dog who wet himself. Mixed with the baking soda, the urine set off an explosion. Worse followed. When the washer went into its high-spin cycle it whipped the trapped chap at about 110 kilometres an hour smashing his head against a steel beam. Fortunately he died, otherwise how could he explain being such an idiot to anyone.

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