And the winner of the Darwin award . . .

[Ian D J]

. . . goes to this numpty: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2395854.ece

I'm sorry but if the forces of nature allowed him to be such an idiot, then he should have never been allowed to be born in the first place. "I'll check to see if my lighter still works" as he stepped into a van containing canisters of propane gas.

Stupid man.

 

[Just Dave]

:bang: didnt he smell the gas

 

[ChrisMClark]

It's pretty dense, but I reckon there's worse out there

 

[Ian D J]

:bang: didnt he smell the gas

That's exactly what I thought when I first read the article. Maybe his brains had been fully disconnected.

It's pretty dense, but I reckon there's worse out there

Perhaps so. But this fella is a good contender for he's about as dense as pig's poo after a diet of toffee and egg white.

 

[russdaz]

Does propane gas actaully have a smell? personally i cannot smell gas, then again i cant smell most things, so i wouldnt have known.

Big question did the van have the proper vents to be carying the gas in the first place.

 

[Galaxy66]

:bang: didnt he smell the gas

It is one of the most noticeable gasses, very pungent, I currently have 8 47kilo propane bottles connected up together to run my c/heating and if one of those connections is giving off the slightest leak I can spot it as I walk past them.

 

[BOM]

I thought you had to successfully remove yourself from the gene pool to be a darwin contender?

 

[ChrisMClark]

Propane doesn't actually have it's own odour, but one is added. The pungent smell is an additive to make leaks noticeable, or at least that's what I've been told.

 

[Galaxy66]

Propane doesn't actually have it's own odour, but one is added. The pungent smell is an additive to make leaks noticeable, or at least that's what I've been told.

You learn something new every day,

[Propane is both odourless and colourless when produced. However, in order for you to detect the presence of propane, an odour-producing substance is added to it by the propane producer. This odorant has a distinctive ,'rotten cabbage" smell, which is consumed and not noticeable when a burner is operating. .]

they certainly made a good job of adding the odour.

 

[ChrisMClark]

It's supposed to let you know when you've got a leak so you don't spark up or test your lighter.

Maybe a stronger odour is required.

 

[Suzanne]

There's worse out there. One of the journals I manage is full of Case Reports concerning people who have injured or killed themselves in stupid ways. "Rectal Impalement on a Pirate Ship" was one that greeted me a while ago.

 

[ChrisMClark]

There's worse out there. One of the journals I manage is full of Case Reports concerning people who have injured or killed themselves in stupid ways. "Rectal Impalement on a Pirate Ship" was one that greeted me a while ago.

You have to be ******** me...no way...nobody's that dense...or unlucky!

 

[Galaxy66]

There's worse out there. One of the journals I manage is full of Case Reports concerning people who have injured or killed themselves in stupid ways. "Rectal Impalement on a Pirate Ship" was one that greeted me a while ago.

Rectal Impalement......... doesn't bear thinking about

 

[Suzanne]

I can give you a few more genuine manuscript titles that have landed on my desk and been published:

- An unusual cause of hip pain in a child ‘a pencil case’ (child falling down the stairs and landing on his pencil case and getting a pencil stuck in his hip)

- Self-inflicted shotgun wound to the knee—a drastic measure for intractable knee pain (man with acute knee pain got drunk and shot his kneecap to teach it a lesson; I'm just glad he didn't have a headache)

- Nasal amputation due to donkey bite: immediate and late reconstruction with a forehead flap (apparently it's common, in Spain, to have your nose bitten off by a donkey)

- Are coat hangers safe? (try not to fall onto a coat hanger)

- Complete rupture of extensor tendon while playing Uileann pipe (hmmm...)

- “Spring in her step”—an unusual case of intra-osseous foreign body in the tibia (somebody who grows grass in her leg after a very unpleasant accident; I believe Johnny Herbert has the same problem).

Incidentally, "Rectal Impalement on a pirate ship" was an 8-year old boy who sat on his toy pirate ship in the bath.