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2006 Urban Legend: Garden Bomb
Australia | In the suburbs of Adelaide, the undisputed cannabis capital of Australia, sleeping residents were awakened by a resounding explosion. A smoking hole was found in a neighbor's backyard, still reeking of the pungent odor of marijuana...
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2006 Urban Legend: Garden Bomb
In the suburbs of Adelaide, 'the undisputed cannabis capital of Australia,' sleeping residents were awakened by a resounding explosion. A smoking hole was found in a neighbor's backyard, still reeking of the pungent odo
Relevance: 99.3% |
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1999 Urban Legend: Explosion of Thought
-- Doctors are blaming a rare electrical imbalance in the brain for the bizarre death of a chess player whose head literally exploded in the middle championship
Relevance: 87% |
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2000 Urban Legend: Cow Bomb
A dairy worker who heard that bovine flatulence was largely composed of methane, and potentially explosive, decided to apply the scientific method to the theory. While one of his contented cow charges was hooked
Relevance: 84.3% |
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1999 Darwin Award: Living on Zionist Time
The switch away from daylight savings time caused consternation among terrorist groups this year. At precisely 5:30 Israel time on Sunday, two coordinated car bombs exploded in different cities, killing three terrorists who were transporting the bombs. It was initially
Relevance: 64.6% |
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1996 Darwin Award: Cigarette Lighter Triggers Fatal Explosion
A Jay County man using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzleloader was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home about 11:30 p.m. Investigators said
Relevance: 41.8% |
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2007 Darwin Award: Timing is Everything
Indiana | Russell, 19, had a grudge against a semi truck abandoned on a rural property. And Russell was a man of action. He built a gunpowder/propane tank bomb, attached a timer, and planted it in the truck...
Relevance: 40.8% |
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2004 Darwin Award: Amateur Bomb Inspector
'Curiosity may have killed this cat, but no amount of satisfaction can bring him back.' The city of Ambon was on edge. Just two days before, a bomb hidden in a cookie tin along with two bottles of beer and so
Relevance: 40.8% |
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Honorable Mention: Unfinished Project
Any story that begins, 'Well I was building a pipe bomb,' can never end well. Sam is a bright individual with an appetite for building new things. One Sunday, angry that the Broncos were losing, Sam headed to his workshop to build a bomb...
Relevance: 27.8% |
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2004 Darwin Award: The Army's a Blast
Piling up live artillery is grueling work, so it makes perfect sense that a group of soldiers would take a cigarette break at lunchtime. The warehouse in southern Ukraine was filled with 92,000 ton
Relevance: 21.7% |
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