Sunday, 1 March 2009

Materialistic Stupidity # Darwin Awards

It like that story of the Italian who was queued at a rail road crossing in his shinny new Porsche sportscar.

The cars before him had stopped as the light just turned amber, but this lad, being a Porsche driver, had to overtake and get across before the lights went green. He had done the route several times and knew that not until around 3 seonds after the light goes green does the safety barrier starts to fall.

However, as you might have guessed, given Murphy's Law he didn't make the second safety barrier. So he was left their sitting in his shiny new porsche, listening to the kling kling kling warning of the oncoming train.

Apparently, it took the driver awhile to realize he was stuck. But finally he jumped from the car and started to run--

STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE ONCOMING TRAIN, waving his arms in an attempt to save his sportscar!

He was partly successful. The car was in better shape than him.

Did he die? He ran into an oncoming train, ofcourse he died..

1 comment:

  1. Here is a joke that fits PZ very nicely.

    PZ was queued at a rail road crossing in his shinny new Porsche sportscar.

    The cars before him had stopped as the light just turned amber, but PZ, being a Porsche driver, had to overtake and get across before the lights went red. He had done the route several times and knew that not until around 3 seconds after the light goes red does the safety barrier starts to fall.

    However, as you might have guessed, given Murphy's Law, PZ didn't make the second safety barrier. So he was left their sitting in his shiny new porsche, listening to the kling kling kling warning of the oncoming train.

    Apparently, it took PZ awhile to realize he was stuck. But finally he jumped from the car and started to run… STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE ONCOMING TRAIN, waving his arms in an attempt to stop the train and save his sportscar!

    The car is in better shape than him.

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