he could have been a darwin award candidate...

[bryce]

if only he had died when he hit his head...

By Associated Press
Published November 19, 2003, 6:31 AM CST

MODESTO, Calif. -- Police said a masked man who robbed a Modesto bank Monday
forgot to cut eye holes into his disguise, occasionally lifting up a corner of
the flannel cloth to see his feet as he fumbled his way through the heist, and
crashing into the Oak Valley Community Bank's steel door frame on the way out.

The robbery was successful, and the man, who was wearing a pink shirt, big white
gardening gloves and tight jeans, was last seen driving away with an accomplice
and an undisclosed amount of money, Detective Tom Blake said.

[JeeberD]

Here are a couple of more candidates. The first one happened about ten minutes down the highway from me...
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Man chokes to death trying to hide bag of pot in mouth (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2235422)

FORT WORTH -- A man changing a flat tire choked to death on a bag of marijuana he stuffed down his throat in an apparent attempt to hide it from police who stopped to help him early today.

Cpl. Frank Lott of the Corinth Police Department said officers had no idea Nickolas Sandoval, 24, of Ponder, had drugs when they spotted him on Interstate 35E in Corinth, about 45 miles northeast of Fort Worth.

"Officers went from 'Oh, hey, here is someone with a flat tire' to 'Hey, this guy is choking,'" Lott told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for its online edition today.

Officers noticed a plastic bag lodged in the man's throat, but it was too far down for them to extract. They kept trying to dislodge it until an ambulance arrived, and medical personnel were able to remove it, Lott said.

Sandoval was pronounced dead at Denton Regional Medical Center about 3:30 a.m., said Linda Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office. The cause of death has been ruled as "asphyxiation due to aspiration of plastic bag," she said.

Sandoval had been convicted in Denton County of multiple counts of marijuana possession, a Class B misdemeanor, between September 1999 and December 2001, court records show. He pleaded guilty to the charge in September 1999 and received a deferred adjudication sentence after 12 months of probation.

In August 2000, he pleaded no contest to another marijuana possession charge and was sentenced to 40 days in jail. In December 2001, he was convicted of possession of marijuana and sentenced to 95 days in jail. Also in December 2001, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving and was sentenced to another 95 days in jail.

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Man dies after winning vodka-drinking contest (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=3852004&section=news)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care.

"The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-litre bottles. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a prosecutor pursuing the case in the town of Volgodonsk.

"Five contestants ended up in intensive care. Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink."

Popov said the director of the shop organising this month's contest had been charged with manslaughter. He had offered 10 litres of vodka to the competitor drinking the most in the shortest time.

Russians drink the equivalent of 15 litres of pure alcohol per head annually, one of the highest rates in the world. Some experts estimate one in seven Russians is an alcoholic.

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by bryce
the man, who was wearing a pink shirt, big white
gardening gloves and tight jeans,

I wonder how the "tight jeans" came up in the police interviews. Kinda odd thing for people to remember, isn't it?

"He was somewhere betwen 160 and 220 pounds, and 5'7" and 6'2", but we're all in agreement that his pants were tight."

[MrBug708]

30-4 minutes to down 3 half litres of Vodka?