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Russian dies after winning vodka-drinking contest | ||
2003-11-19 | ||
Today's Darwin Award contestant... A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care. "The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-litre bottles. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a prosecutor pursuing the case in the town of Volgodonsk.
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Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
#10 I blame bad ice cubes... |
Posted by: tu3031 2003-11-19 10:47:39 PM |
#9 Now I think I grasp why Russia is headed toward a long-term demographic catastrophe - natural selection is probably hard at work here. Saluut! LR |
Posted by: Lone Ranger 2003-11-19 8:16:27 PM |
#8 Aren't there warning lables on the bottles? Does his family have representation? |
Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-19 6:34:41 PM |
#7 Throw the other contestants on the pyre and you'll blow the town up. |
Posted by: Charles 2003-11-19 6:33:34 PM |
#6 a free funeral pyre - could heat the town for a couple weeks |
Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-19 6:25:04 PM |
#5 Maybe a free funeral should have been offered as the grand prize. |
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-19 4:02:09 PM |
#4 Note that this was a southern Russian town. In Siberia, it takes three liters a week just to keep the blood from freezing. |
Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-11-19 3:57:40 PM |
#3 The last bottle must have been bad somehow... |
Posted by: True German Ally 2003-11-19 3:22:31 PM |
#2 Not a Darwin Award candidate Now if his sweat had ignited..... |
Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-19 3:04:03 PM |
#1 A true Phyrric victory. Not a Darwin Award candidate because there's nothing particularly innovative about the method. I've been doing the same thing for a half-century - only the timeframe is different, the results are the same. |
Posted by: Mercutio 2003-11-19 3:01:27 PM |