Big Tule started a thread about two Doughballs @ Bonneville and their antics with large sturgeon...here's another story of a potential Darwin Award winner:
In the mid-'70s there was a gas station/auto shop in Reedsport that had an enclosed repair bay with an electrically-operated overhead door. One sunday morning early a young forked-horn blacktail buck wandered down off the hill and came into town. The station attendant, a young man in his early 20s, looked up from his comic book and noticed the deer had come into the shop bay thru the open door. It was deer season and he had an un-used tag. He reached over and hit the door switch and the door started down. The deer shyed away and came farther inside. Once the door was shut, the attendant grabbed a tire iron and went into the bay and cornered the buck. He whacked at it a time or two with the tire iron but couldn't get in a killing blow...then the buck bowed it's neck and made a ripping motion upwards. One antler tine caught the attendant's pants at the knee and penetrated thru and into the meat of his upper leg, ripping about a 12" gash deep into the muscle. The guy apparently then decided there were easier ways to get venison so he backed off, hit the switch re-opening the door, and the deer ran out. I came into the station for gas about that time and helped the attendant staunch the blood flow (missed the femoral artery, luckily), called an ambulance for him, and called his boss to tell him he had an unmanned gas station. The attendant survived the incident with no permanent injury...but he's lucky the antler job didn't remove him from the breeding population
...or kill him outright. :shocked:
Any other potential Darwin stories out there?
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Darwin Award Material?
This backs up my opinion that some people are just to stupid to be alive. this is a perfect example DUM dumb. 
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