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The Phonethanol test:
Put your mobile phone in a tub of ethanol.
You will now have a phone in a tub of ethanol. |
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Roofonting:
This is a simple experiment to determine the effects of 9.8m/s/s accelleration into a well known compound substance.
Jump from a roof into a small bowl of water.
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Place upturned tintacs on the floor.
Lie on the floor.
You are now feeling a common physical sensation known as pain. |
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The Darwin Awards: |
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In March 2002 in Bangladesh, a gang of highway robbers was operating, parking thier cars across the road and forcing oncoming cars to stop and then stealing them. This backfired when a 40-ton lorry was unable to stop because of the weight of the cargo he was carrying - cows. The lorry flattened the road block, killing the five carjackers and an errant cow. |
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In May 2002 in Pakistan, a criminal was accused of owning a hand grenade.
His defence was that it was only a replica, and in an attempt to prove that it was real, the judge pulled out the pin, killing himself. |
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In July 2002 in the Ukraine, a man with a huge dog started threatening a law enforcement officer, after refusing tho put his dog on a leash.
The got so angry that he threw a hand grenade at the officer, but killed himself instead when the dog brought it back to him. |
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In July 2002 in Romania, a businessman put his head to a railway track in front of a train to see if the old Red-Indian trick would be able to detect the train travelling towards him at 110 mph. |
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In October 2002 in Oxford, a member of the Human Catapult Assosciation was killed when they fired themselves from a 50-foot Trebuchet to a place where the safety net wasn't. |
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