Flashlight Safety "Darwin Style"

[angelofwar]

Found this in the 2010 Darwin Awards:

5th Place
Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was robbing. Death was caused when the flashlight he had placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.

Tsk-Tsk...
1) Don't rob stores
2) Don't hold Flashlights in your mouth when running/elevated :ironic:
3) Make sure it's not an E2D/E2DL...minimizes the pain :thumbsup:

 

[Burgess]

Bet he felt REALLY foolish ! ! !


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[Monocrom]

Maybe if he had lived for a second or two. He likely died the instant he hit the floor.

 

[bstrickler]

Serves him right. I hate thieves!

If they wanted to lessen their chances of dying from a flashlight, they should've gotten a CR2 MiNi. Would've lost a couple teeth at most.

~Brian

 

[Monocrom]

Serves him right. I hate thieves!

If they wanted to lessen their chances of dying from a flashlight, they should've gotten a CR2 MiNi. Would've lost a couple teeth at most.

~Brian

Or accidentally have swallowed the light and choked to death, slowly.

 

[Burgess]

Curious as to what the Flashlight was.


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[Monocrom]

If I were a betting man, I'd say a 2AA Mini-Maglite; in black.

 

[ebow86]

No such thing as a smart criminal, another one bites the dust.

 

[gswitter]

No such thing as a smart criminal...

Yeah... you just go on believing that.

 

[socom1970]

No such thing as a smart criminal, another one bites the dust.

Sure there is... They are the criminals who don't get caught.

 

[Monocrom]

If all criminals were that stupid, Police Officers would be as rare as Shoe-Makers who have their own shops. Then again, the need for Corrections Officers would be huge!

 

[saabgoblin]

Curious as to what the Flashlight was.


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What I really want to know is if the flashlight still works after being rammed through his skull, too bad for him it's a one way flashlight durability test.

 

[DaveTheDude]

No such thing as a smart criminal, another one bites the dust.

Begging to differ, but have you heard of Wall Street?

 

[Monocrom]

If you raid a bike shop with a flashlight, you get killed. If you raid a 7-11 with a gun, you get about 15 years in prison. You raid the financial company you were hired to improve, with a Harvard degree; you get billions of dollars in tax-payer money.

Funny how none of those white-collar criminals ever seem to understand the basic fact that no matter how greedy you get . . . You'll never have enough money to buy off death.

 

[saabgoblin]

If you raid a bike shop with a flashlight, you get killed. If you raid a 7-11 with a gun, you get about 15 years in prison. You raid the financial company you were hired to improve, with a Harvard degree; you get billions of dollars in tax-payer money.

Funny how none of those white-collar criminals ever seem to understand the basic fact that no matter how greedy you get . . . You'll never have enough money to buy off death.

So true, so very, very, true.

 

[socom1970]

If you raid a bike shop with a flashlight, you get killed. If you raid a 7-11 with a gun, you get about 15 years in prison. You raid the financial company you were hired to improve, with a Harvard degree; you get billions of dollars in tax-payer money.

Funny how none of those white-collar criminals ever seem to understand the basic fact that no matter how greedy you get . . . You'll never have enough money to buy off death.

As I've heard said before, you can steal far more money with a pen than you ever could with a gun.

 

[hoongern]

Actually, there's an important point to this story - I think that quite a few of us here at CPF place our flashlights in our mouths to keep our hands free - we should keep in mind this danger of it being rammed backwards.. hmm..

 

[OfficerCamp]

6D Maglite?

 

[Monocrom]

6D Maglite?

If he could fit something like that in his mouth easily, he could have made a ton of money in a completely different profession.

 

[Sgt. LED]

OR......... been a very popular guy in prision. :sick2: