Stupidity Kills!

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Here is proof that stupidity DOES kill. There is a thing called The Darwin Awards.they give out awards to people who died from pure stupidity or as the site headliner says: Honoring those who improve the species...by accidentally removing themselves from it! Here is the link and one story from the site. http://www.darwinawards.com/ (27 July 2007, Guadalajara, Mexico) A sure winner is an elevator accident in the hotel I work for. I found the media reference, and could not resist the temptation of sharing this story with you. Apparently 24-year-old Jessica was not familiar with the use of the telephone or the use of the stairs. She was working out in the ?Provincia Gym? and realised she needed something from the floor below. Instead of picking up the phone, using the intercom, or just walking downstairs, she decided that the open shaft of the industrial lift was the communications device for her. So Jessica stuck her head into the empty shaft to shout to the people downstairs, but somehow missed noticing the elevator was going UP. Since an elevator cage and a skull are both solid objects, one had to give. Well, let's leave it at saying that the elevator won. If the elevator was going down, one could say that she was in no position to observe the approaching lift, since she was yelling at people below her. But, leaving aside the stupidity of sticking your head into an elevator shaft, if she was looking down, how could she miss the mass of metal headed her way? I?m sure she will be missed by her family, but not by the gene pool.