{"id":189,"date":"2008-07-04T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-07-04T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:04:00","slug":"darwin-nominees-come-from-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Nominees come from all over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/04\/slovenia.canoe.ap\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/04\/slovenia.canoe.ap\/index.html<\/a>) that&nbsp;8 people have secured Darwin Award nominations by trying to canoe over a dam that was operational but still partially under construction over the river Sava, in Slovenia.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A government official there denied speculation that the dam could have been better secured, saying&nbsp;that those in the canoes had clear security instructions. &#8220;Some of them did not respect (the rules) and decided to take a dangerous descent,&#8221; he said, calling the accident the &#8220;consequence of a wrong human decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You say wrong human decision,&nbsp;the Big Ugly Man Doll says &#8220;Darwin Award.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; Still, getting sucked into the underwater tunnel leading to the generator turbines has to, well, suck.&nbsp; Note to self:&nbsp; If anyone suggests calling your next outing &#8220;The Final Descent&#8221; &#8211; think twice.&nbsp; Or at least once.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports (http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/04\/slovenia.canoe.ap\/index.html) that&nbsp;8 people have secured Darwin Award nominations by trying to canoe over a dam that was operational but still partially under construction over the river Sava, in Slovenia.&nbsp; A government official there denied speculation that the dam could have been better secured, saying&nbsp;that those in the canoes had clear security instructions. &#8220;Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}