Somewhere, Darwin is smiling.

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/new ... -CHUNK*</a>

Somewhere, Darwin is smiling.</div>

[Judgment 1999]

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>Thats why you NEVER look down the barrel of ANY gun, even a toy one. And calling a potato gun that can shoot mortar-sized objects several hundred feet a toy gun is beyond me. Those devices are NOT toys.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>That is unfortunate.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>"Hey, cool! This gun puts holes in metal street signs. Now lemme put my face in front of it, what's the worst that could happen? It's just a potato gun after all!" Moron.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>haha, I just posted this link until I noticed this thread. I knew a kid in HS who did the same thing...just not with a frog</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>A) Potato guns are not toys. B) I would never buy one off E-Bay, you can make your own for $30! :)</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Likely not. This sort of thing is an accident, not a selection of an adaption (or some set of genes).</div>

[Lee S.]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>In reference to the Darwin awards, meaning that this kid did something so retarded that he doesn't deserve to try and function on the same level as the rest of us.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I don't think kids count for Darwin Awards, though.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>stupid ass retards like this do. Looking down the barrel of a weapon is one of the stupidest things you can do</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If you are 17, and you are going to college, there should be some sort knowledge that YOU DO NOT LOOK DOWN THE BARREL OF A FIREARM THAT IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY AND IS LOADED.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I get the reference. Comment stands.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>only the strong (intelligent) survive. This kid's a complete retard and nearly died because of his stupidity. Hence the Darwin reference</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>This is more a random accident, not natural selection.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>it's nto a random accident that he's a total dumbass. He woulda wandered into traffic or ODed otherwise. His stupidity would and will get him killed eventually</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You're making many assumptions.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>A random accident brought around by his own stupidity. Common sense would have saved his face. Such an incident made by a beings own failure would be natural selection, as those who are not fit will fail and be weeded out.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>It's a clever joke, but it's not REALLY natural selection. Not in any meaningful way at least</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Depends if it was really chance or his own mental shortcomings. But since he didn't actually die, I guess it wouldn't be natural selection yet. :)</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If genes can be pointed to, I think the number would be too high to be passed on - that is, during sexual reproduction, the sequence/combintation that caused such systematic errors in judgement (if in fact he did make such systematic errors in judgement) are very likely to be broken up and not passed on.</div>