Re: Darwin Awards Fw: Speedo

[Dan <dan@angband.org>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:53:59AM -0800, Ellen Northam wrote:

> I can think of at least one honorable mention Darwin
> Award that is true: there is even an NTSB report out
> there about it (sorry I can't remember the number).  A
> guy tied a whole bunch of balloons to his lawn chair
> and proceeded to sit down in the chair with a shotgun
> in lap.  He floated up through LAX's airspace, hence
> the NTSB report.

This is true. He was from a town near me originally... He became a hermit
after that, and removed his grey matter with a shotgun blast in some
national park a couple years ago.


Dan

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