Looks like we have more candidates for the Darwin Award!
[Reuter News Service, Perth] A Perth man cut off his ears, penis and testicles in a fit of rage after arguing with a woman and has refused to have them re-attached, police said yesterday. The 32-year-old man severed the organs with a kitchen knife at his suburban home after an argument with a woman late Wednesday. Police said the man placed the organs in a freezer and drove himself seven kilometers (five miles) to a hospital. Hospital staff would not comment but a police spokesman said the man had rejected attempts to sew the organs back on.
The spokesman said police had investigated but would not take action because there was no apparent breach of the law.
---------- [News of the Weird, 27 Apr 93, San Jose Mercury News] Two California miscreants paid a disproportionately high price for their crimes recently:
In Chatsworth, a 23-year-old man was killed by a train after he fell onto the tracks as he was trying to sneak into a drive-in movie. And a man in his 20s was killed when his body became wedged in the housing underneath a bus he was using for a jail escape in Los Angeles.
----------- [AP, Mammoth Lakes] A San Anselmo man died yesterday when he hit a lift tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a foam pad, authorities said.
Matthew David Hubal, 22, was pronounced dead at Centinela Mammoth Hospital. The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's Department said.
Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski run called Stump Alley and undid some yellow foam protectors from the lift towers, said Lieutenant Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department. The pads are used to protect skiers who might hit the towers. The group apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a tower. It was not clear if the tower he hit was one with its pad removed. "With the cold temperatures, the snow was probably pretty fast," said Donnelly.
------------ [Reuters, Warsaw, Poland, 5 May 1995] A poacher electrocuting fish in a lake in central Poland fell into the water and suffered the same fate as his quarry, police said Thursday.
The 24-year-old man was one of four who went fishing with a cable, one end of which they attached to a net and the other to a high-voltage electricity supply line, the PAP news agency quoted a police official in Wloclawek as saying. "For a while everything went according to the poachers' plan and they had fish in their bags. But at a certain moment the man holding the net tripped and fell into the water," the agency said. The other poachers tried in vain to revive him, it said.
---------- [AP, St. Louis] Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it in his mouth, and walked out without paying for it.
Police found him unconscious in front of the store: paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat, where it had choked him to death.
----------- [Unknown] A poacher, Marino Malerba, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock -- was killed instantly when it fell on him.
----------- [UPI, Portland, OR] Doctors at Portland's University Hospital said Wednesday an Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow is lucky to be alive, and will be released soon from the hospital. Tony Roberts, 25, lost his right eye last weekend during an initiation into a men's rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous, in Grants Pass, Ore.
A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow entered Roberts' right eye. Doctors said had the arrow gone 1 millimeter to the left, a major blood vessel would have cut and Roberts would have died instantly.
Neurosurgeon Dr. Johnny Delashaw at the University Hospital in Portland said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of brain, with the tip protruding at the rear of his skill, yet somehow managed to miss all major blood vessels.
Delashaw also said had Robert tried to pull the arrow out on his own he surely would have killed himself.
Roberts admitted afterwards he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Said Roberts, "I feel so dumb about this." No charges have been filed but the Josephine County district attorney's office said the initiation stunt is under investigation.