Darwin Awards Nominees

The Darwin Awards * pay tribute those who improve the human gene pool...
(by removing themselves from it)

[AP, St. Louis, MO]
Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it in his mouth, and walked out without paying for it. Police found him unconscious in front of the store: paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat, where it had choked him to death.

[UPI, Spain]
Poacher Marino Malerba, shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock - and was killed instantly when it fell off the overhang and landed on him.