Darwin Award--close but no cigar

[Puerto_Rico_Surfer]

Every year something called the Darwin Award gets released, what it is, is a list of people that did such stupid thing as to get themselves killed that it benefits the human genetic pool because they did not reproduce.

Well this story off CNN is a prime example of a candidate for the Darwin award, but he ended up being runnerup status---doctors saved him----oh well he will probably win next time.


Student drinks lab chemical on a dare
Youth found bleeding in hallway
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 Posted: 10:16 AM EDT (1416 GMT)


ODESSA, Texas (AP) -- A student who drank a chemical from his high school lab on a dare was recovering in a hospital, but not before a scare.

The student drank the unidentified chemical on a bet at the school, said Nancy Smith, a UMC supervisor.

"We need to find out what it was from the toxicologist," Assistant Principal Ray Lascano said.
The student was found last Wednesday in a school hallway, bleeding from the nose, mouth, and ears.

The unidentified student, a junior at Odessa High School, was upgraded Monday from critical to stable condition at University Medical Center in Lubbock.

Lascano, who talked with the youth's mother Monday afternoon, said swelling in his throat had receded enough for him to talk. The student was moved from the Lubbock hospital's intensive-care unit to the pediatric unit, he said.

Lascano said Ector County Independent School District officials were still investigating.