Darwin Award for the day?

[BigPete]

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. -- South Georgia authorities say two men became so high on drugs they began hallucinating and called 911 when they thought intruders had broken into a home.



Effingham County sheriff's spokesman David Ehsanipoor said the pair is suspected of using methamphetamine around the time they called 911 for help early Tuesday.



Deputies responding around 4 a.m. to the home outside Savannah were told by the pair that people in a back bedroom had broken into the home, but no intruders were found.



Ehsanipoor said deputies realized they were hallucinating. He said "they were so high they called 911 on themselves."



The Savannah Morning News reports the suspects, both of Bloomingdale, face several charges including manufacturing and possessing methamphetamine. It wasn't known Tuesday whether they have attorneys.

Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2011/07/19/1792204/men-suspected-of-hallucinating.html#ixzz1SfkKtxGD

 

[roshinaya]

Shouldn't someone die to be eligible for the Darwin award? Anyways, dumb tweakers deserve all the crap they'll get.

 

[CaveMan]

Wow, should just be arrested for being morons. Do society a favor and lock them away so they cannot breed.

 

[roshinaya]

This reminds me of that 911 phone call where a cop that has baked some pot brownies thinks he is dying.

 

[ytsejam]

Yeah. I remember that cop. He asked 911 the score of the Wangs game.

These people are not eligible for a Darwin award, but could get an honorable mention.

 

[Kerfuffle]

Here's some of my favorite Darwin award winners:



1) Woman calls 911 because McDonalds won't give her a refund on her chicken McNuggets

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,504125,00.html



2) Man calls 911 because Subway forgot to put the sauce on his sandwich

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92BL5FO0



3) Man calls 911 because Burger King ran out of lemonade

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2009/02/07/0207bbarrest.html



4) Woman calls 911 looking for a husband

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-911-husband-call,0,553094.story

 

[ytsejam]

Those are clearly not eligible for Darwin awards. They may fit into the honorable mention category, but to qualify for a Darwin award one must die or otherwise ruin their ability to reproduce.

 

[ytsejam]

This is a Darwin award :



http://DarwinAwards.com/darwin/darwin2005-01.html

 

[bri]

I remember a couple years ago at Thanksgiving they played the call of some woman calling 911 asking how to fix her turkey.

 

[ytsejam]

Doesn't butterball have a turkey hotline on thanksgiving?

I am pretty sure I heard a radio program about it last year.

 

[Ton]

One of my friends got so drunk once, he puked everywhere and thought he was gonna die, he told me to throw him out on the street and call 911 because he thought he threw up some organs... I laughed pretty hard until I had to clean up his puke.

 

[LordKOTL]

yt is right. A Darwin award winner has to remove themselves from the gene pool in order to win, thus, the 911 calls don't count.



While most die, one can win while still living, like the urban legend of the guy who tried to steel two lobsters by shoving them down his shorts and the lobsters giving him a vasectomy.



A textbook example of a darwin award...

 

[TSD]

I once called 1-800 the crave when me and a few buddies got drunk and got a crave case. I was on the phone with the broad for like 20 minutes.

 

[winos5]

Dumb-ass sure. Hardly a Darwin Award winner.