Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Darwin Award - VIII

We have a new winner.
Two teens who died Saturday night in Routt National Forest were smoking and jumping atop an oil tank just before it exploded, the Rio Blanco County Undersheriff said today.

Undersheriff Michael Joos said investigators are looking at the possibility that cigarettes or ashes ignited vapors from the tank.

About 10:15 p.m. Saturday authorities received reports of an explosion. They found the bodies of Fuller and Hedemark, who were thrown more than 400 feet. A dog on the tank was also killed.

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