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Saturday, September 27, 2025

News of the Weird: Weekly Darwin Award (Honorable Mention)

This week's nominee: On Super Bowl Sunday, deputies in Sheridan, Colo., found a car with its windows blown out, its doors bulging outward and the roof bent upward a foot. The license plate led to Norman Frey, 46, who admitted that he had been on his way to a football party with a balloon filled with acetylene (a compound used in blowtorches) which he planned to explode in celebration. However, the balloon ignited, perhaps by static electricity from the back seat, and Frey and a companion suffered shrapnel wounds.  

 

  —Rocky Mountain News

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