Darwin Awards - 2009 Award Winner - Crushing Debt

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Crushing Debt
2009 Darwin Award Winner - 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 machine 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.




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