talk about kicking yourself in the bollocks

Taken from darwinawards.com

"Bizarre Death


At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS, President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story:

On March 23,1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to that effect, indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the descender was aware that a safety net had been installed just below at the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

"Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide."

That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands. The room on the ninth floor, whence the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr. Opus.

When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were both adamant. They both said they thought the shotgun was unloaded. Thed old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide. "

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DESIGN OF THE MONTH!

Jake

I used to be a massive fan of Jake Walters (the photographer) fashion stuff.. but I thought he'd gone off the boil a little bit until I found these...

Horses for Courses I guess...

Quit Crying

And today I have laughed my sorry arse off at THIS PAGE from all the wrong wrong WRONG Yahoo questions for Yahoo answers....

tonyhawk

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I'm serious, you do not know anything about pain. You don't know ANYTHING about pain until you have seen your own baby drowned in a tub. And you DEFINITELY don't know ANYTHING about how to wash a baby.

An amazing girl has this on her favourite quotations thing on facebook. I wish she bloody realised it sometime and came home.

PIE PIE PIE PIE

I like pie charts dont you? I came across these on a blog someone is doing a PHD in typography is used in litrature. I think. its all very confusing, I just like to look at stupid pictures, I'm easily pleased.

Number 4 is my favourite.

Source : http://zoesadokierski.blogspot.com/

fuck

Lol - Thanks to Ginny @ http://posedtodeath.tumblr.com/

Energy Drinks

Since I was about 10 and had my first Red Bull (which I thought was fucking amazing) I've always been attracted to Energy Drinks. Not necessarily their taste - Im hardly a sugar freak, or massively reliant on caffeine. Just purely their packaging and the design on it. I love the loudness of it, the cool factor. It just leaps off the shelf. Some admittedly dont work very well and just look a bit half arsed and cheesy. But here are some of my faves.

http://www.inbflat.net/

http://www.inbflat.net/ Lets you chill out properly... its a wall of youtube videos with people from around the world doing random music compositions, all in the same key. In this instance, B flat.

Eno Henze

Im not sure how he makes these images but i think its loads of fine lines drawn to create massive structure within his drawings.... I love it, it reminds me of DNA but a lot more loose and free...the aesthetic is beautiful :) It does remind me of flame rendering programs ive been looking into...

Check out his stuff.

Eno Henze

LIFES TOO SHORT SUCKA!

<3 Aitor Throup

My favourite being the Lion parka.... I want one so much! I like the way Throup's blended animal form with fashion. Slight references to Hindu gods and Mexican day of the dead I feel....ONly original stuff i've seen in ages, and I've never seen the colour grey become so appealing...

do want.

Chanel's new advert

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Equals...

Beatboxing.

Awful! polski fail.



As ever, awesome.

Darren Foreman aka beardyman.

DONT LAUGH.

WENEEDMOREOFTHIS

Jimmy Gray

Sickmadfuckedupvideo

my main man Jimmy Gray doing some fucked up stuff. More to come I hope...

thenightday

source: www.thenightday.com