Message-ID: <12433108.1075856160199.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 05:53:00 -0800 (PST) From: tori.kuykendall@enron.com To: jperdew@apbenergy.com Subject: Fw: Cast your vote.......... 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Gay Jr." , "Joan & Dan Gunning" , "David Johnson" , "Esther Johnson" , "Frank Johnson" , "John Marsh" , "Laurie Vaughn" , "Maria & Scott Raper" , "Ralph Saczawa" , "Randy Gay" , "Rick Robbins" , "Robert Sands" , "Ronald L. 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Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while >>> Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a >>> troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and >>> the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft." >>> >>> NOMINEE No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record] >>> Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in >>> December in Newton, N.C. Awakening to the sound of a ringing >>> telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed >>> instead a Smith Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew >>> it to his ear. >>> >>> NOMINEE No. 4: [UPI, Toronto] >>> Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a >>> downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his >>> shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman >>> said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto >>> Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the >>> strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Hoy >>> previously has conducted demonstration of window strength >>> according to police reports. Peter Lawyers, managing partner of >>> the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that >>> Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man >>> association. >>> >>> NOMINEE No. 5: [Bloomsburg News Service] >>> A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for >>> the death of a man who was killed by his own gas. There was no >>> mark on his body but an autopsy showed large amounts of methane >>> gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and >>> cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right >>> combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep >>> from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. >>> Had he been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn't >>> have been fatal. But the man was shut up in his near air-tight >>> bedroom. According to the article, "He was a big man with a huge >>> capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers got >>> sick and one was hospitalized. >>> >>> NOMINEE No. 6: [The News of the Weird.] >>> Michael Anderson Godwin made news of the Weird posthumously. He >>> had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's electric chair >>> on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life >>> in prison. Whilst sitting on a metal toilet in his cell and >>> attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was >>> electrocuted. >>> >>> NOMINEE NO. 7: ["The Indianapolis Star"]. >>> A cigarette lighter may have triggered fatal explosion in Dunkirk, >>> Indiana. A Jay County man using a cigarette lighter to check the >>> barrel of a muzzle loader was killed Monday night when the weapon >>> discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory >>> David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home about >>> 11:30 pm. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber >>> muzzle loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the >>> lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited. >>> >>> NOMINEE No. 8: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario] A man cleaning a >>> bird Feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this >>> Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. Stefan >>> Macko, 55, was standing on a wheeled chair when the accident >>> occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of the Peel regional police. >>> "It appears the chair moved and he went over the balcony," Honer >>> said. >>> >>> NOMINEE No.9: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette] Two local men were >>> seriously injured when their pick-up truck left the road and >>> struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday >>> morning. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident >>> shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc and >>> Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock are listed in serious >>> condition at Baptist Medical Center. The accident occurred as the >>> two men were returning to Des Arc after a frog gigging trip. On an >>> overcast Sunday night, Poole's pick-up truck headlights >>> malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on >>> the older model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was >>> not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullet from >>> his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering >>> wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet, the headlights again >>> began to operate properly and the two men proceeded on east-bound >>> toward the White River bridge. After traveling approximately 20 >>> miles and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently >>> overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right testicle. The >>> vehicle swerved sharply to the right exiting the pavement and >>> striking a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from >>> the accident, but will require surgery to repair the other wound. >>> Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. >>> "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls >>> off or we might both be dead" stated Wallis. "I've been a trooper >>> for ten years in this part of the world, but this is a first for >>> me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident >>> happened," said Snyder. Upon being notified of the wreck, >>> Lavinia, Poole's wife, asked how many frogs the boys had caught >>> and did anyone get them from the truck. (Way to go, Lavinia!) >>> >>> >> >>___________________________________________________________ >Get more from your time online. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com >
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Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 10:11 AM
Subject: Cast your vote.........


> 2000 Darwin Award Nominations:
>>    Hard to believe, but another year has passed...For those who don't
>>    know it, the Darwin Awards are awarded every year to the person(s)
>>    who died (or almost died) in the stupidest way, thus enhancing the
>>    gene pool by their absence.
>>
>>    The 2000 nominees are:
>>    NOMINEE No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News]:
>>    An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former
>>    girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when
>>    the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut
>>
>>    NOMINEE No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette]
>>    James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, Mich., was killed in March
>>    as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm type
>>    truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while
>>    Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a
>>    troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and
>>    the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."
>>
>>    NOMINEE No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record]
>>    Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in
>>    December in Newton, N.C. Awakening to the sound of a ringing
>>    telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed
>>    instead a Smith Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew
>>    it to his ear.
>>
>>    NOMINEE No. 4: [UPI, Toronto]
>>    Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a
>>    downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his
>>    shoulder and plunged 24  floors to his death. A police spokesman
>>    said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto
>>    Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the
>>    strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Hoy
>>    previously has conducted demonstration of window strength
>>    according to police reports. Peter Lawyers, managing partner of
>>    the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that
>>    Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man
>>    association.
>>
>>    NOMINEE No. 5: [Bloomsburg News Service]
>>    A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for
>>    the death of a man who was killed by his own gas. There was no
>>    mark on his body but an autopsy showed large amounts of methane
>>    gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and
>>    cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right
>>    combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep
>>    from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed.
>>    Had he been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn't
>>    have been fatal.  But the man was shut up in his near air-tight
>>    bedroom.  According to the article, "He was a big man with a huge
>>    capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers got
>>    sick and one was hospitalized.
>>
>>    NOMINEE No. 6: [The News of the Weird.]
>>    Michael Anderson Godwin made news of the Weird posthumously. He
>>    had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's electric chair
>>    on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life
>>    in prison. Whilst sitting on a metal toilet in his cell and
>>    attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was
>>    electrocuted.
>>
>>    NOMINEE NO. 7: ["The Indianapolis Star"].
>>    A cigarette lighter may have triggered fatal explosion in Dunkirk,
>>    Indiana.  A Jay County man using a cigarette lighter to check the
>>    barrel of a muzzle loader was killed Monday night when the weapon
>>    discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory
>>    David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home about
>>    11:30 pm.  Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber
>>    muzzle loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the
>>    lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited
>>
>>    NOMINEE No. 8: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario] A man cleaning a
>>    bird Feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this
>>    Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death.  Stefan
>>    Macko, 55, was standing on a wheeled chair when the accident
>>    occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of the Peel regional police.
>>    "It appears the chair moved and he went over the balcony," Honer
>>    said.
>>
>>    NOMINEE No.9: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette] Two local men were
>>    seriously injured when their pick-up truck left the road and
>>    struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday
>>    morning. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident
>>    shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc and
>>    Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock are listed in serious
>>    condition at Baptist Medical Center. The accident occurred as the
>>    two men were returning to Des Arc after a frog gigging trip. On an
>>    overcast Sunday night, Poole's pick-up truck headlights
>>    malfunctioned.  The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on
>>    the older model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was
>>    not available,  Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullet from
>>    his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering
>>    wheel column.  Upon inserting the bullet, the headlights again
>>    began to operate properly and the two men proceeded on east-bound
>>    toward the White River bridge. After traveling approximately 20
>>    miles and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently
>>    overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right testicle. The
>>    vehicle swerved sharply to the right exiting the pavement and
>>    striking a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from
>>    the accident, but will require surgery to repair the other wound.
>>    Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released.
>>    "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls
>>    off or we might both be dead" stated Wallis. "I've been a trooper
>>    for ten years in this part of the world, but this is a first for
>>    me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident
>>    happened," said Snyder.   Upon being notified of the wreck,
>>    Lavinia, Poole's wife, asked how many frogs the boys had caught
>>    and did anyone get them from the truck.   (Way to go, Lavinia!)
>>
>>
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