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Potential Darwin Award Nominees


2007-08-19 19:07:02
By: Gene Bromberg

If you decide that there's someone out there who you really, really need to kill, you would do well to come up with a better plan than the two geniuses who were recently arrested for trying to kill Mathew Sowash, the owner of something called the Amateur Poker Tour. Herbert Paul Beck and Christopher Lee Steelman were arrested on attempted murder charges, and the method they planned on using in making this attempt was rather creative--they were going to stick Sowash's feet into a box filled with rattlesnakes and let them bite Sowash to death.

Beyond the fact that Beck and Lee are apparently rather vicious characters, it's quite apparent the ain't too bright. As Bob Myers of the Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque said, "The venom of a rattlesnake is relatively mild and does not usually cause a life threatening bite." Myers then said that trying to kill someone with rattlesnakes is comparable to trying to kill someone with a BB gun.

The moral of this story (if there's any morality in it at all) is that first-degree murder is never the answer to a financial dispute. Which you probably knew in the first place.


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