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Courage the Cowardly Dog
Dec 21st, 2006, 08:25 PM
Walmart says first offense shoplifters will get a warning befor they get real punishment. but God has different ideas.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/16289455.htm

sorry wrong board, please move this.
Grislygus
Dec 22nd, 2006, 02:14 PM
Not sure if that qualifies as a Darwin. The kid just panicked, he didn't commit premeditated stupidity.
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Dec 22nd, 2006, 02:47 PM
but he should have looked both ways befor crossing the street after stealing crap.
Grislygus
Dec 22nd, 2006, 03:10 PM
I know, but he's just not in the same league as the idiot who decided to go swimming naked with Shamu, you know?
Angryhydralisk
Dec 22nd, 2006, 04:05 PM
That's more like shit luck rather than a Darwin-worthy case of "Natural Selection". And unlike the Darwins, I actually feel bad for this kid's family.
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Dec 22nd, 2006, 05:28 PM
yeah but if he had grown up he'd only have died getting hit by a bigger car while stealing a real gun. I feel more like laughing at the kid.

Merry Chrsitmas kid's parents.
Grislygus
Dec 22nd, 2006, 08:02 PM
Now hold on jes' a gall-danged minute thar, hydry.


While I don't think it qualifies as a Darwin award, it DOES count as a case of natural selection. After all, if he was a superior specimen, he wouldn't have panicked and ran blindly into a dangerous situation.
sadie
Dec 22nd, 2006, 11:35 PM
and wouldn't have had somebody chasing him for shoplifting in the first place.
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Dec 23rd, 2006, 11:19 AM
Now hold on jes' a gall-danged minute thar, hydry.


While I don't think it qualifies as a Darwin award, it DOES count as a case of natural selection. After all, if he was a superior specimen, he wouldn't have panicked and ran blindly into a dangerous situation.I thought Darwin awards WERE natural selection. Otherwise it's suicide which is an act that is totally anti-darwinian.
Grislygus
Dec 23rd, 2006, 04:10 PM
No, the Darwin awards aren't merely natural selection. They are awarded to people so spectacularly stupid that their deaths and/or inability to procreate greatly improves the human race as a whole.

Also, kids aren't allowed to get Darwin awards, seeing as how they haven't fully developed mentally.