Fools!

"A fool and his life are soon parted."

-Anonymous

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself."

-Anonymous

"I love fool's experiments; I am always making them."

-Charles Darwin

"Trusting oneself is foolish; but those who walk in wisdom are safe."

-Proverbs 28:26 NLT

"He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But whoever walks wisely will be delivered."

-Proverbs 28:26 NKJV

"Dumber than a bag of hammers."

"Stupider than a box of rocks."

"One sandwich short of a picnic."

"Elevator doesn't go to the top."

"One fry short of a Happy Meal."

In her books "The Darwin Awards", Wendy Northcutt highlights and awards (posthumously) ". . . individuals who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion." There are many recipients and this story reveals one of those "sublimely idiotic fashions" chosen for removal from our gene pool:

With a driver and a truckload of broccoli missing, the law enforcement officials of Los Angeles contacted the Ohio police during the search. The truck was soon located, stalled on an Ohio highway, and was towed to a maintenance facility nearby. Mechanically, the truck was fine, just out of fuel. The driver was missing but his belongings and seven bricks of marijuana were found inside the cab.

The police and the trucking company immediately mounted a search for the driver. One of the police officers soon noticed two feet protruding from between two pallets of broccoli. The driver had been discovered! He was dead!

According to the Richfield Township, Ohio, Police Department Report #00514, the broccoli was unloaded and the driver's frozen body was left standing upside-down, his head frozen to the floor. After freeing his body with portable heaters, his still frozen body was loaded into a rescue vehicle. Because of an extended frozen arm the body had to be loaded sideways to get it inside. This driver went out in style! Cool!

The coroner's office stated that the man must have been trying to located some cocaine when he fell between the two pallets of broccoli and knocked himself unconscious. Hypothermia soon set in and the driver died an icy death and upside-down. Another well-deserved Darwin Award for sure.

"Trusting oneself is foolish; but those who walk in wisdom are safe."

Need I say more?

Maybe I do . . . some say, "The tree of life is self-pruning!"

Stay safe!