Every year the Darwin Award committee nominated a select few for their achievement in pushing back the evolution of man several centuries.
Recently three teenagers from Sattahip stole Yamaha Mio motorcycle from Pattaya. Not able to start the motorcycle one joyrider decided to push it to Sattahip, a distance of 35 kilometers. Police stopped the youths at the city limit, as the sun was breaking on Sukhumvit, the main road to the south.
Unbelievably the other two youths had motorcycles and hadn’t abandoned their friend to his after-midnight folly. All three boys were 17. And let’s face it 17 year-old boys are capable of really stupid things.
At the same age I tried to outrun a State Trooper in a VW Rabbit. 70 mph versus 120 mph. It was no contest and I woke the next morning in jail as did these boys. While police predominantly depend on snitches for crime work, they can also count on stupidity to aid their investigation.
Two youth stole a microwave from my next door neighbor. The police stopped these young adventurers on Soi Kophai at 5am and were told that the boys they were bringing their grandmother’s microwave to a repair shop so she could cook them breakfast. The police opted to not believe the youths and the boys ended up at Soi 8, the police station, while the microwave was returned to my friend’s kitchen.
While the boys from both incidents appear to be qualifiers for the Darwin award, one must consider the achievement of the 2006 runner-up to realize how much work Thailand must do in order to compete for the honor of winning the gold for an evolutionary throwback.
Marko, a 55-year-old Croatian chimney sweeper was stumped by a tall chimney, however he decided to weld a weight to a chain attached to his brush. Unfortunately the device was a hand grenade left over from the late-Balkan Wars and the acetylene torch ignited the explosive within the bomb instantly killing Marko and granting him immortaltiy for his stupidty.
Pattaya police maintain that neither theft had anything to do with politics.
For further insight into the Darwin awards visit this URL
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/index_darwin2005.html
The Prime Minister had nothing to say about the incident.