[equitiman]

My old college track coach actually got an honorable mention in the Darwin Awards. He only received an honorable mention cus he didn't get himself killed. The funny thing is that we didn't know about it until one day we were reading the Darwin Awards and found one about a dude that went to the same college and had the same last name as our coach. At first we were like "wow what a crazy coincidence" and then we realized that it must be the same person. We asked him about it and he confessed to us that it was him. But then he made us swear that we wouldn't tell anyone (he was quite embarassed).

Anyway, the award he won was due to a bet he made with his friends to see how close he could get his face to a passing train (his defense was that he was really drunk at the time...). He wound up in the hospital but actually didn't have any permanent scars or such from the train-to-face impact.