Fast on the heals of a scientific discovery that a virus may be responcible for making people fat , scientist have also discovered there is no limit to the human beings capacity to blame anyone else for their own misfortunes.
The Darwin Awards are full of people, whose sole redeeming feature is that they can no longer blame anothers; because they are now dead.
This 2005/2006 awards go to a guy who killed himself by Lava-lamp, another who welded a chain to a grenade (to use it as a paper weight), and a young vietnamese man who thought that putting a detonator in his mouth and connecting it to the house mains supply would prove that the detonator, was in fact, defective.
...Nguyen, 21, had been drinking with friends in Hanoi, when he pulled out an old detonator he had found. It was about six centimeters long and eight centimeters in diameter, with two wires hanging out. Because it was old and rusty, Nguyen said, it couldn't explode. His friends disagreed. To prove his point, Nguyen put the detonator in his mouth and asked his friend to plug the dangling wires into a 220-volt electrical receptacle.
For more stories of people who have left their mark by shuffling off their moral coils in a unique manner go here. It is indeed a refreshing notion, that given time, there may be a glimmer of hope: that all the idiots that surround us, may some day, find a way to transcend to greatness.
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