Japan vies for 2003 Darwin Award

[Taro Toporific]

I wonder why NHK News this morning didn't say "WHY", "WHO" or "HOW" this Darwin candidate did this to himself?


---"I learnt how to make bombs on the Internet" ---
Man blows self up in botched attack on old high school bully
MDN - Mainichi Shimbun / July 14, 2003
FUKUI -- A 33-year-old man mistakenly blew himself up Sunday on a Fukui street trying to launch a fire bomb attack on the house of a man who bullied him during their high school days, police said.
The unemployed Fukui man, who had more handmade bombs inside his vehicle parked on the street, is described to be in a serious condition after suffering burns all over his body, but is expected to survive.
"I was trying to get even with a bully from my high school days. I learnt how to make bombs on the Internet," the 33-year-old man reportedly said while he was being transported to hospital.

[kurohinge1]

Taro-san, I think he'd have to kill himself or at least blow his wedding tackle off to be elligible for the Darwin awards (by taking himself out of the human gene pool), but we live in hope.

He probably got called a loser at school or something - well, he showed them, didn't he !

[American Oyaji]

Well, I'll say this.

He gets points for style.

But wouldnt it be simpler and more rewarding to put on a ski mask and ninja gear and wail on the guy with an alumi baseball bat?

[kurohinge1]

... But wouldnt it be simpler and more rewarding to put on a ski mask and ninja gear and wail on the guy with an alumi baseball bat?

A skiing Ninja ?

Or better still, pound the bully with a large rubber hammer, dressed as Evil Pongi ! That's what I'm seriously considering for all my future crimes of meaningless violence ...

[Shibuya Me]

These sort of guys really make "some" Japanese men look...ya know.."kinda married!"

You have to read a few forums to understand what I mean...

[katakori]

yeah, you need to be dead to be eligible. i guess so you can't get it more than once (some people would try to compete every year...)

anyway, i don't get this :

I was trying to get even with a bully from my high school days." the 33-year-old man reportedly said...

is he really slow (to understand insults) or was he in high school until 32 yo...??

[kamome]

yeah, you need to be dead to be eligible. i guess so you can't get it more than once (some people would try to compete every year...)

anyway, i don't get this :

I was trying to get even with a bully from my high school days." the 33-year-old man reportedly said...

is he really slow (to understand insults) or was he in high school until 32 yo...??

Yeah, it kinda compounds the stupidity, doesn't it? Not only did he blow himself up, it took him over a decade to accomplish it!

[GargoyleTS]

Y'know, all I can think of is...

"And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and its not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set... "

This guy HAS to be worse than Milton....