Darwin Award candidate

[steve58]

:(  :-\  ???

CALAIS, Maine (AP) — A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself, authorities said Sunday.

Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in the backyard of a friend's home in the small eastern Maine city of Calais, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety. Staples, 22, of Calais, placed a fireworks mortar tube on his head and set it off, he said.

The firework exploded, killing Staples instantly, McCausland said.

http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html

[Nefaro]

The answer to this example of natural selection is obviously to ban anything with the potential to kill.   ::)

Get used to eating with your fingers and walking long distances.  :P

[Staggerwing]

And if you want a canoe keep chewing until the tree falls. Then chew some more.

[LongBlade]

Looks like it's going to be a tight race, with Texas competing with Maine:

A Texas man died Tuesday after shooting a firework off of his chest, according to Colorado County sheriff's officials.

Justin Bartek, a 30-year-old veteran postal worker, died at Columbus Community Hospital on Tuesday, a local NBC affiliate reported.

source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/8/texas-man-dies-after-shooting-firework-from-chest/

[Centurion40]

I'd say that we shouldn't count the chickens until Florida weighs-in, but it just looks like they have nothing better to offer than pro athletes blowing off their fingers.