"A Houston man earned a succinct lesson in gun safety when he played Russian roulette with a .45-calibre semiautomatic pistol. Rashaad, nineteen, was visiting friends when he announced his intention to play the deadly game. He apparently did not realize that a semiautomatic pistol, unlike a revolver, automatically inserts a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. His chance of winning a round of Russian roulette was zero, as he quickly discovered" -Darwin Awards http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/department/police/nr022900-1.htm
Jeeze that's pretty horrible. I lost my best friend to a stupid gun accident. He and a friend of his were messing around with a gun, and my friend grabbed the gun from the other guy while his finger was on the trigger... Some people...
i agree that the death part isn't funny, but the lack of intelligence is definately somewhat humorous.
And the fact that he was from Texas had a lot to do with it, too. How many of these Darwin Awards are ever factually verified? Time for a trip to snopes.com, I think.
