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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Russian dies after winning vodka-drinking contest
2003-11-19
Today's Darwin Award contestant...
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.
"The winner wasn't aware of the death when it occurred."
"Five contestants ended up in intensive care. Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink." Mr 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.
"Tastes great!"
"Less killing!"
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#10  I blame bad ice cubes...
Posted by: tu3031   2003-11-19 10:47:39 PM  

#9  Now I think I grasp why Russia is headed toward a long-term demographic catastrophe - natural selection is probably hard at work here.

Saluut!
LR
Posted by: Lone Ranger   2003-11-19 8:16:27 PM  

#8  Aren't there warning lables on the bottles? Does his family have representation?
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-11-19 6:34:41 PM  

#7  Throw the other contestants on the pyre and you'll blow the town up.
Posted by: Charles   2003-11-19 6:33:34 PM  

#6  a free funeral pyre - could heat the town for a couple weeks
Posted by: Frank G   2003-11-19 6:25:04 PM  

#5  Maybe a free funeral should have been offered as the grand prize.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-11-19 4:02:09 PM  

#4  Note that this was a southern Russian town. In Siberia, it takes three liters a week just to keep the blood from freezing.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-11-19 3:57:40 PM  

#3  The last bottle must have been bad somehow...
Posted by: True German Ally   2003-11-19 3:22:31 PM  

#2  Not a Darwin Award candidate

Now if his sweat had ignited.....
Posted by: Shipman   2003-11-19 3:04:03 PM  

#1  A true Phyrric victory.

Not a Darwin Award candidate because there's nothing particularly innovative about the method. I've been doing the same thing for a half-century - only the timeframe is different, the results are the same.
Posted by: Mercutio   2003-11-19 3:01:27 PM  

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