Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Are there anti-Darwin awards?
A 27-year-old Mesa man apparently tried to kill himself Tuesday by rigging a sword to his steering wheel and ramming his car through a block wall, police said.
Nathan Ryan’s car ended up at the bottom of a swimming pool in the 1300 block of North Dakota Street in Chandler, and he went to the hospital with wounds that were not a threat to his life, said Sgt. Joe Favazzo, Chandler police spokesman.
The handle of the 24-inch sword was positioned against the instrument panel with the blade sticking through the steering wheel. It was tied into place with a T-shirt.
Ryan then drove his car through the block wall, but the airbag deployed and bent the sword.
6 Comments:
By 
, at
Wed Jun 17, 04:05:00 PM:
"Can you be too dumb.."
Yes. It's why most people want to kill themselves.
M.E.
By , at
Wed Jun 17, 04:16:00 PM:
This story is a metaphor for the policies of the Medvedev government.
By , at
Wed Jun 17, 04:55:00 PM:
I hope he gets his life turned around. It would be awful to feel so trapped by circumstances that death seems the only way out.
By 
Purple Avenger, at
Wed Jun 17, 05:56:00 PM:
How do you tell your mother that you were simply too stupid to be able to off yourself successfully?
By Lynn, at
Wed Jun 17, 06:37:00 PM:
Mesa or Mensa? If Mensa, I think they should refund his application fee.
By , at
Wed Jun 17, 11:38:00 PM:
Most suicide attempts fail. As a career prosecutor, I have handled several murder/suicides in which the murder was successful but the ensuing suicide attempt failed. Typically these are domestic homicides.
My favorite was a guy who killed his wife with a shotgun and then turned it on himself. Somehow his aim with the second barrel was so poor that all he managed to do was literally blow his nose off. He went to trial wearing a strap-on metal nose a la Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou.
