And the Darwin Award goes to.........

[CatWoman]

Coweta Man Uses Blowtorch To Clean Cobwebs; Sets Home On Fire

Thursday, November 6, 2008 – updated: 12:39 pm EST November 6, 2008
SARGENT, Ga. -- Men take note: a blowtorch is not the same as a broom.

Coweta County authorities say Galen Winchell set fire to his west Georgia home Wednesday as he cleaned cobwebs from exterior eaves with a blowtorch. Winchell noticed the blaze when he saw smoke pouring from the attic.

Coweta Fire Investigator James Gantt says the fire was contained to one part of the house, but the entire home sustained smoke and water damage.

"This was an unfortunate accident," Gantt told the Times-Herald newspaper.

No one was hurt in the blaze.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/17919686/detail.html#-

[newscott]

1. You can nominate that but since he didn't die

I don't think they'll consider him.

[Shardik]

2. CatWoman, I literally laughed out loud for a minute on reading this.

But, then again, I'm easily amused.

That's a hoot.

[CatWoman]

4. LOL

I think I may have dated that guy in the 80's :rofl:

[Shardik]

6. Hell, it may have been me...

The 80's are only remotely clearer than the 70's. :)

[gratuitous]

3. Wotta maroon

First, cobwebs don't burn.

But of course, since he didn't succeed in actually killing himself and removing his genes from the gene pool, he's not eligible for a Darwin Award. But with this exhibition of brainpower, he's surely in line to be an aide for Saxby Chambliss.

[CatWoman]

5. not wanting to show that I, too, am a maroon

but I didn't know that cobwebs didn't burn :silly:

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Cobwebs are flammable

http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/docs/d000801-d000900/d000843/d000843.html

Highly Flammable or Combustible Materials - If at all possible, hay, straw and other types of bedding should not be stored in the same building in which livestock is housed. Care should be taken that these materials are not stored with machinery or near any type of electrical or heat source. Highly flammable materials may include:

* Hay and straw
* Bedding material (especially sawdust and shredded newspaper)
* Cobwebs, dust, and grain dust
* Horse blankets
* Paint
* Fertilizer
* Pesticides and herbicides

[Blue-Jay]

8. Not a Darwin Award.

He didn't die, nor burn off his gonads. He's just a regular old dumbfuck.

[CatWoman]

9. hey!!!!

where's the squirrel?????? :shrug:

[Blue-Jay]

15. I got rid of the squirrel, baby girl.

[RedLetterRev]

13. That's what my partner calls

a fumducker. Rather rolls of the tongue :D

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Presenting....the Fumducker Awards

for people too inept to qualify for the Darwin Awards.

[johnaries]

10. BTW, I HIGHLY reccommend the movie...

Hilarious!

http://darwinawardsdvd.com/

[Initech]

11. Unless he died or singed off his genitals in the blaze, no dice.

[bridgit]

12. So, I...guess taping a feather duster to a stick is an academic exercise after all?

[Blue-Jay]

16. Only if you stick it in your ass and jump off a cliff.

21st Century Icarus, you are.

[bridgit]

17. Shit-head!! That's not how it goes. It's stuff it *up* your ass and dust your way out the door...

:silly:

[whistler162]

18. Just had a old man down the street burn down his house

while defrosting a freezer with a blow torch or propane heater.