>A see a Darwin award nomination in the making.

But he's in stable condition, so it can only make an "Honorable Mention" This years honorable mentions were pretty good:

1. In Guthrie, Okla, in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede
with
a shot from his 22-caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off of a
rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez
in the head, fracturing his skull.

2. In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Marty Eskins, attempting to clean out
cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a
broom in favor of a propane torch and caused a fire that burned the
first and second floors of his house.

3. Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, in
September, and his wife Bonnie was also
injured, by a quarter-stick of dynamite that blew up in their car. While
driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple
lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would
happen, but they apparently failed to notice
that the window was closed.

4. TACOMA, WA - Kerry Bingham, had been drinking with several friends
when
one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the
Tacoma
Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more
heated
and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30am.
Upon arrival at the midpoint of the
bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham,
who had continued drinking,
volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay nearby.
One end of the cable was secured around
Bingham's leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted
40 feet before the cable tightened and tore
his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the
icy river water and was rescued by two nearby
fishermen. "All I can
say," said Bingham, "is that God was watching out for me on that night.
There's just no other explanation for
it." Bingham's foot was never located.