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Monday 4 January 2010

Darwin Award Winner 2009 - Two Bankrobbers overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the "withdrawl"

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Crushing Debt
2009 Darwin Award WINNER

Double Darwin!

(26 September 2009, Belgium) The city of Dinant is the backdrop for this rare Double Darwin Award. Two bankrobbers attempting to make a sizeable withdrawal from an ATM died when they overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion. The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in. Nobody else was in the building at the time of the attack.

Robber One was rushed to the hospital with severe head trauma; he died shortly after arrival. Investigators initially assumed that his accomplice had managed a getway, but the second bungler's body was excavated from the debris twelve hours later. Would-be Robbers One and Two weren't exactly impoverished--their getaway car was a BMW.

Balance of 2009 Award Winners - http://www.darwinawards.com/