{"id":133839,"date":"2010-01-04T00:44:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T05:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1037535"},"modified":"2010-01-04T00:44:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T05:44:37","slug":"news-com-au-darwin-awards-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/133839","title":{"rendered":"news.com.au Darwin Awards goes to…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TWO bank robbers who blew themselves up trying to make a sizable withdrawal from an ATM have been declared the 2009 winners of the Darwin Awards – while the first woman to be nominated came in third.<\/p>\n

Organisers say the annual "prize" is given to "those doing the most to improve the human gene pool … by removing themselves from it".<\/b><\/p>\n

This year the dubious first place went to the pair of bungling thieves in Belgium who wildly overestimated the amount of dynamite they needed to rob a bank.<\/p>\n

They both were killed when the blast demolished the entire building the ATM was housed in.<\/p>\n

Police only found the body of the second robber some twelve hours after digging through the debris. They had initially assumed he had made a getaway.<\/p>\n

The bankrobbers just edged ahead of Florida man Shawn Motero, who was stuck in a traffic jam when nature called.<\/p>\n

He got out of his car and jumped over a concrete wall to find a more secluded spot.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the 30-year-old had not realized he was on a bridge and fell 65ft (19.8m) to his death.<\/p>\n

Award organisers said the accident proved you should "look before you leak".<\/p>\n

Police revealed Mr Motero had been drinking at a bar in Pompano Beach before his tragic death, adding: ‘He probably thought there was a road, but there wasn’t.’<\/p>\n

The first woman to be nominated for the award came in at third place.<\/p>\n

Rosanne Tippett drove her moped through a police road block – straight into a flooded river.<\/p>\n

After being rescued by police she jumped back into the water to rescue her vehicle – and drowned.<\/p>\n

Before embarking on her final journey the 50-year-old had phoned her mother and told her: "My moped has two rubber wheels, Mom, I’ll be fine."<\/p>\n

Her mum later admitted: "She loved that thing."<\/p>\n

Other nominees for the 2009 awards included an armed robber who used gold spray paint to disguise his face as he raided a convenience store.<\/p>\n

The paint released toxic fumes and Thomas James, from South Carolina, collapsed and died shortly after the robbery.<\/p>\n

To add insult to injury, the disguise didn’t work – with witnesses having no problem identifying the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n

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*drum roll* TWO bank robbers who blew themselves up trying to make a sizable withdrawal from an ATM have been declared the 2009 winners of the Darwin Awards – while the first woman to be nominated came in third. Organisers say the annual "prize" is given to "those doing the most to improve the human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}