Scooter Snuff
2001 Darwin Award Winner
Confirmed True by Darwin
(25 January 2001, New Mexico) Cross the street at night wearing dark clothing, and you court danger. Ride a push scooter down the center lane of a major road wearing dark clothes in the middle of the night, and you take your life into your hands. Ride that scooter in the dark carrying a bottle of Tequila Rose liqueur, and you're a Darwin Award waiting to happen.
An unidentified 18-year-old died doing just that, when the driver of a pickup truck veered to avoid him and accidentally clipped him with the side mirror at 9pm. The unhelmeted scooter rider hit the pavement and died at the scene from severe head injuries.
In an earnest display of common sense, Police Sgt. Brian McCutcheon warned that piloting a scooter down a street after dark is "a very bad idea" and "extremely unsafe."
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Submitted by: Paul Grunwald, Eric Redding
Reference: Jeff Jones of the Albuquerque Journal
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2001 Darwin Award Winner
Confirmed True by Darwin
(25 January 2001, New Mexico) Cross the street at night wearing dark clothing, and you court danger. Ride a push scooter down the center lane of a major road wearing dark clothes in the middle of the night, and you take your life into your hands. Ride that scooter in the dark carrying a bottle of Tequila Rose liqueur, and you're a Darwin Award waiting to happen.
Confirmed True by Darwin
An unidentified 18-year-old died doing just that, when the driver of a pickup truck veered to avoid him and accidentally clipped him with the side mirror at 9pm. The unhelmeted scooter rider hit the pavement and died at the scene from severe head injuries.
In an earnest display of common sense, Police Sgt. Brian McCutcheon warned that piloting a scooter down a street after dark is "a very bad idea" and "extremely unsafe."
DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2022
Submitted by: Paul Grunwald, Eric Redding
Reference: Jeff Jones of the Albuquerque Journal
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