From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V9 #22 Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Fri, 18 Jan 2002 Vol 09 : Num 022 In this issue: eskrima: Your Digest Gem's eskrima: Darwin Awards- 2001 eskrima: eskrima@martialartsresource.net eskrima: . ========================================================================== Eskrima-Digest, serving the Internet since June 1994. 1100 members strong! Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The premier internet discussion forum devoted to Filipino Martial Arts. Provided in memory of Mangisursuro Michael G. Inay (1944-2000). http://InayanEskrima.com Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe eskrima-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of the Eskrima-Digest at http://MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brosus Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:05:08 -0000 Subject: eskrima: Your Digest Gem's Hi, I've been lurking on this list for about four years and recently I was looking back over past issues looking for a particular post. It's surprising how much really good stuff I forgot had landed in my mail box every day for years I was wondering does anyone have some a favourite posts form the list that they remember? cheers Paul ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 9:41:29 PST Subject: eskrima: Darwin Awards- 2001 Forwarded message: > Presenting .... The Darwin Award 2001. The candidates have finally been > released! (For those not familiar with the Darwin Award, it's an annual > honor given to the person who provided the Universal human gene pool the > biggest service by getting killed in the most extraordinarily stupid way.) > > As always, competition this year has been keen again. Some candidates appear > to have trained their whole lives for this event! > > DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES > > 1. In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in > two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide > sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. > > 2. In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally > zoned when he ran," according to his wife, accidentally jogged off a > 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run. > > 3. Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug > into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach goers said Daniel > Jones, 21 dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had > been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom. Thursday afternoon when it > collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on > the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way > to Jones, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy > equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. > Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital. > > 4. In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he > fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was > burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in > his mouth (to keep his > hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor. > > 5. According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, > was stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who > was trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest > Berrena was wearing. (Real officer material!) > > 6. Sylvester Briddell, Jr, 26, was killed in February in Selbyville, > Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver > loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger. > > 7. In February, according to police in Windsor, Ontario, Daniel Kolta, > 27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a > tie in the game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles. > > DARWIN AWARD HONORABLE MENTIONS > > 1. In Guthrie, Okla, in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede > with a shot from his 22 caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a > rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head, fracturing > his skull. > > 2. In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out > cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a propane > torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his > house. > > 3. Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, in > September, and his wife Bonnie was also injured by a quarter-stick of > dynamite that blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 AM, the > bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see > what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window > was closed. > > MORE ALSO RANS > > TACOMA, WA - Kerry Bingham, had been drinking with several friends when > one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the > Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew > more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the Walkway of the bridge > at 4:30am. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered > that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued > drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay > nearby. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and the > other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the > cable tightened and tore his foot off at > the ankle. He miraculously survived the fall into the icy river water > and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say," said Bingham, > "is that God was watching out for me on that night. There's just no > other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located. > > AND THE WINNER: AND THIS IS, INDEED, THE WINNER... > > 1. PADERBORN, GERMANY - Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed > his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more > than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up > pachyderm finally let fly-and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of > poop! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give > the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded > on him like dump truck full of mud. "The sheer force of the elephant's > unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he > struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued > to evacuate his bowels on top of him," said flabbergasted Paderborn > police detective Erik Dern. "With no one there to help him, he lay under > all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and > during that time he suffocated. "It seems to be > just one of those freak accidents that happen." ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:52:35 PST Subject: eskrima: eskrima@martialartsresource.net This should be the last issue of the Eskrima Digest from this address. Posts sent to this addr will now bounce back. The new address to post to is eskrima@martialartsresource.net. For list info go to: http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/eskrima Thanks. Ray Terry raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:53:15 PST Subject: eskrima: . ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V9 #22 *************************************** To unsubscribe from the eskrima-digest send the command: unsubscribe eskrima-digest -or- unsubscribe eskrima-digest your.old@address in the BODY (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. 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