I got this in a email from a buddy of mine:
The Darwin Awards are given annually to the person or persons who through their colossal stupidity, manage to remove themselves from the gene pool.
Here is this year's #1 contender to date:
The following individual's attempt at a crime spree in Washington State appeared to be the robber's first (and last), due to his lack of a previous record of violence, and his terminally stupid choices of where and when to rob:
1. His "target" was "H&J Leather & Firearms", a gun shop specializing in handguns.
2. The shop was full of customers - firearms customers.
3. To enter the shop, the robber had to step around a marked police patrol car parked at the curb in front of the door.
4. A uniformed officer was standing at the counter, having coffee before reporting to work. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up, and proceeded to fire a few wild shots around the store from a .22 caliber target pistol. The officer and a store clerk promptly returned fire, the police officer with a 9mm Glock 17; the clerk with a .50 caliber Desert Eagle; ably assisted by several customers who also drew their weapons, several of whom also returned fire. The robber was pronounced "dead at the scene" by Paramedics.
5. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds to the perpetrator. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt in the exchange of gunfire.
Here we are just in April, and we may already have the 2005 winner of the Darwin Award. This guy is going to be hard to beat.
