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Potential Darwin Award Winner

Posted: 2002-11-20 01:49pm
by Joe
This guy literally drowned in cow shit. http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/d ... rmweb.html

VERSAILLES | A Darke County farmer died today in a Dayton hospital after the tractor he was operating slipped into a manure lagoon, trapping the victim.

Scott A. Winner, 36, of near Versailles was pronounced death at Miami Valley Hospital. Winner had been taken by helicopter to the hospital from the accident scene in northeast Darke County.

According to the Darke County sheriff's office, rescue workers were called to the scene on Willowdell Road shortly after 10 a.m. Deputies said family members and farm workers tried, but were unable, to free Winner. Rescue workers freed him less than 30 minutes after the call.

Deputies said Winner apparently was repositioning the tractor and aerating equipment when they slipped into the lagoon.

Posted: 2002-11-20 02:18pm
by Zaia
Ewwwwwwww....glad they didn't have pictures.

Posted: 2002-11-20 02:24pm
by Ghost Rider
That truly sucks to be him.

I pity him since I can see the epitath to be

"Drowned in Manure."

Posted: 2002-11-20 02:25pm
by Vertigo1
*snickers*

Thats not near as funny as the time some dude got killed when an elephant shit on him. :D

Posted: 2002-11-20 02:30pm
by Stormbringer
That's a shitty way to die. Horrible as hell but it sounds more accident than stupidity triggered.

Posted: 2002-11-20 02:34pm
by TrailerParkJawa
Sounds more like an accident to me too. Now it would have been different if he was trying to cross the lagoon like some sorta monster truck race.

Posted: 2002-11-20 02:51pm
by neoolong
Man I wonder what the eulogy would be like. :twisted:

Posted: 2002-11-20 05:55pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Stormbringer wrote:That's a shitty way to die.


*Groan*

Posted: 2002-11-20 05:59pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
It seems like an , though a very gross one. Most Darwin winners did dumb things on purpose without knowing.

Posted: 2002-11-20 06:38pm
by Kosh_The_Vorlon
This doesn't fit the criteria of a Darwin Award..But, I could ask Wendy personally if you'd like me to :wink:

Posted: 2002-11-20 07:51pm
by The Dark
Vertigo1 wrote:*snickers*

Thats not near as funny as the time some dude got killed when an elephant shit on him. :D
That was an urban legend. If you examine the "photograph" of it, the shadows are all screwed up. It's a funny story, but it's just a hoax.