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Idiot climbs into elephant exhibit, gets comeuppance:

WACO, Texas – A 25-year-old woman climbed past barriers and into an elephant’s zoo exhibit, then crawled out with minor injuries after the 6,000-pound animal smacked her with its trunk.

“That’s how an elephant reacts to something they would perceive as a threat,” said Cameron Park Zoo director Jim Fleshman.

After saying she wanted to play with the elephant, the woman climbed over a 3-feet-high wood-and-wire fence, scaled an 8-foot-tall artificial rock structure and bypassed an electric wire before jumping into the exhibit Thursday afternoon, Fleshman said. A moat extends around most of the exhibit.

Just narrowly missed a Darwin award there.

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11 thoughts on HAH!

  1. Hm, they’re very vague on her motivation.

    I suspect she may have been either mentally disabled or mentally ill. Or, I suppose, high out of her mind. It’s seems very very unlikely that this is an “ignorant tourist tries to feed moose” situation.

  2. I’m with Nancy McClernan on the Darwin Awards. She wrote:
    (here and you have to scroll down: http://www.jxflagg.com/2006_01_01_archive.asp Sorry but I
    can’t figure out the permalink siutation at Heavens to Mergatroyd)

    My hatred for The Darwin Awards – and how Google punished me for talking about it
    I really hate The Darwin Awards. As I said on one Amazon review: “The Darwin Awards are a pseudo-scientific excuse for the callous to profit from the tragedies of the unfortunate by marketing to the smug and self-satisfied.”

    If you aren’t familiar with them, the Darwin Awards are given to people who have died in “funny” ways. Although it is claimed that recipients deserve their Award because they are morons who did us all a favor by removing themselves from the gene pool, in fact the Darwin Awards aren’t very strict about who qualifies.

    For one thing, the Awards are given to older people who either have already reproduced or are unlikely to reproduce in the future. So the Awards don’t actually have anything to do with cleansing the gene pool.

    But you say, it isn’t supposed to be scientific – it’s just good fun.

    Although it claims to exclude children, children have been nominated for Darwin Awards because they did something dumb (as kids will do) and died as a result. Think of the chuckles parents get reading about their kid’s death in the Darwin Awards. Hardee har har.

    Finally, plenty of the deaths nominated for the Darwin Awards are simply someone’s extreme bad luck. But if the death is unusual or colorful enough, the cretinous ghouls who participate in The Darwin Awards nominations will go for it.

    Now it’s one thing to chuckle guiltily over a wacky death. But The Darwin Awards is way beyond that – it is a money-making endeavor that profits from tragedy. But not just profits – exacerbates the tragedy by literally making a public proclamation that the world is better off without the person.

    In my opinion, there is no nominee, be they ever so stupid who deserves death or digraces humanity more than the callous, sadistic vultures who participate in the Darwin Awards.

    In summation – people involved in the Darwin Awards are the scum of the earth.

    So I wrote several negative reviews of the Darwin Awards on Amazon.

    So what happens? Google punishes me for it. When I Google my own name, an ad appears for The Darwin Awards III, edited by scum of the earth Wendy Northcutt.

    I just emailed Google asking them to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. They better get on it damn soon too. I don’t want my name to be associated in any non-criticism way with those freaks.

    UPDATE: I got a response from AdSense – they’re going to see if this situation violates their policy.

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    Anyway, those are Nancy’s words, and I think KnifeGhost is probably right, but zuzu seems to like laughing at people like this.

  3. Yeah, I’m guessing either mentally disabled, mentally ill, in a drug-induced altered state… or one of those people whose parents never explained Things We Just Don’t Do.

    You know the type. Another example: woman at the Georgia Aquarium holding a cup of coffee smiles and watches her daughter play on rocks next to a sign saying DO NOT PLAY ON ROCKS with signs prohibiting food and drink in the area.

  4. Not that I really get worked up about it, but the language surrounding the Darwin Awards was always a little to similar to the rhetoric of the eugenics movements for my comfort.

    Besides, generally speaking, shouldn’t people with children be ineligible for a Darwin Award? They’ve already done their supposed damage.

  5. The Darwin Awards are fantastic.

    Stupid people should be ridiculed in life–and death.

    I have a friend who works at one of those dollar stores. The name of the place is Deals: Nothing Over a Dollar. She said there’s signs all over displaying the name of the store and their pricing policy–everything costs a buck. Real simple. However, she said the most common question customers ask is, “How much does this cost?” She says every day dozens of people approach her and ask for price checks, angry and upset that there are no price tags on any of the merchandise.

    No, I think stupid people doing themselves in is a great thing. It keeps me from having to strangle them.

  6. Marksman:

    Me too. I love the awards…occassionaly guiltily…but I love ’em.

    Not Darwin eligible but my favorite is the guy that wrote a holdup note on one of his own deposit slips…and he was robbing his own bank.

  7. Squid,

    That woman sounds like a raging hypocrite on the issue of sensitivity. She strikes me as the type to be on her high horse about respecting people’s feelings but wouldn’t hesitate for a second to mock, humiliate or berate those she disagrees with.

    In summation – people involved in the Darwin Awards are the scum of the earth.

    Well, what do you know, that’s exactly what she does. Do you think calling people scum of the Earth might hurt their feelings? LOL. Oh, they earned that appellation, right? Just like those who were awarded the Darwin Awards probably earned theirs.

    I’m not quite sure what point you wanted to make but her tilting at windmills doesn’t really inform us very much.

  8. KnifeGhost,

    little to similar to the rhetoric of the eugenics movements for my comfort

    I don’t see why you need to bring Planned Parenthood into this conversation. What does the fight for Reproductive Freedom have do do with the Darwin Awards?

  9. At a local park here, a parent helped their child over some protective fencing and up to the 2nd fence here in order to feed a Wild Black Bear an apple (or perhaps just wanted to touch it). The kid (4yrs old) got bit, they went directly to the ER, a few days later they had to put the bears down in order to test for rabies. They put both since they didn’t know which one bit the kid.

    To pour salt on the wound, they then dumped the bears in a landfill. Thanks to the outrage in the community, the bears were “exhumed” and given a proper burial on Maymont’s grounds.

    Also, lots of money has been raised so that they’ll hopefully be able to rescue 2 more bears.

    So not only was the parent negligent, the kid got bit because of this parent’s negligence.

    Not too many people were very happy to hear any of this because the bears ended up paying for that parent’s stupidity and lack of common sense.

  10. I’m curious about the claim that the Darwin Awards are a moneymaking endeavour. Isn’t it just a joke website? In fact, more than one, as there is no copyright on the name and several websites claim to be the Darwin Awards?

    Sure, it’s crass and insensitive. Welcome to the Internet.

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