So, did he qualify for a Darwin award?
Disqualified for award because he made it out alive.
I've come to firmly believe that modern societal comforts - with a bit of help from legislation and the courts - have doomed the human natural selection process.
We certainly interfere with it!
The guy cleaning his motorcycle in his living room - c'mon! Even without the spilled gas and the burning butt, this guy would have been "naturally selected" out of everyone else's way a hundred years ago. Alan, any chance he (1)didn't have homeowner's insurance, or (2) tried to litigate it into being someone else's fault?
The incident happened in 1963. I was all excited to come home to see fire trucks on our street, but my dad's worried manner clued me in to the seriousness of what was going on. I was sure glad we lived less than a mile from the local FD.
I believe that the guy was renting the house. Guys like that are one reason I am not a landlord.
