Darwin Award Entry

[BrenOS]

WTF is shrapnel?

 

[Al Vallario]

WTF is shrapnel?

http://www.google.fr/search?hl=ar&q=define:+shrapnel

 

[manveruppd]

Is there an echo in here? in here? in here?

 

[Biohazard]

man that is dumb what would make you do that?

 

[manveruppd]

It was the voices!! The voices told me to do it!!!

Oh you meant the story the OP posted...

Obviously the only possible reason was a sincere desire to win this year's Darwins!

To the OP: has it actually been nominated, or did you get the story directly off Yahoo? If it hasn't already you should go ahead and email them, it's a good one!

 

[Sleepy]

To the OP: has it actually been nominated, or did you get the story directly off Yahoo? If it hasn't already you should go ahead and email them, it's a good one!

I've entered it.

 

[VaderDSL]

Thread was +++ funny, the amount of shrapnel replies just mae it comedy gold

Cheers

 

[Akira]

Can you think of a quicker way to open an RPG? The guy was just using his head.
errrr shrapnel?

 

[Aod]

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2005-09.html

 

[manveruppd]

Nah, that's a totally different story AoD, I remember reading it months ago. This one's from this year according to the OP's Yahoo link.

 

[benjo plz.]

Nah, that's a totally different story AoD, I remember reading it months ago. This one's from this year according to the OP's Yahoo link.

I think he knows that, it's just the same type of dumbarseness .

 

[AJUK]

LOL @ the idiot with the hammer, more LOLs @ 'shrapnel'

 

[WillyNelson]

I wonder what was going through his mind at the time?

His face!

Thought I'd be different

 

[Visage]

Grenade fragments?

 

[benjo plz.]

Grenade fragments?

= Shrapnel .

Some guy called Lieutenant Shrapnel invented the first grenade, so thats where it comes from .

 

[geeza]

Major-General Henry Shrapnel

 

[benjo plz.]

Major-General Henry Shrapnel

He got promoted because of it .

 

[AndrewPE28]

Tis True :

Henry Shrapnel (June 3, 1761 - March 13, 1842) was a British Army officer and inventor, most famously of the "shrapnel shell".

Henry Shrapnel was born in Wiltshire, England. In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, at his own expense, an invention of what he called "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannon ball filled with shot which burst in mid-air.This device was for use as an anti-personnel weapon. When it was finally adopted by the British Army in 1803, it immediately acquired the inventor's name: the shrapnel shell. (It has erroneously lent the term "shrapnel" to fragmentation from artillery shells ever since, long after it was replaced by high explosive rounds.)