I wrote about candidates for the 2014 Darwin Awards back in January, following several deaths, near-deaths, and plain stupid behaviour during the bad weather. As of October, I think Peter Shaw – drug dealer – has virtually clinched the trophy with nearly three months of the year left.
Shaw, who comes from Nottingham (it doesn’t say what part, but it would be a very short shortlist of likely estates), was photographed by a friend handling and preparing large quantities of drugs. The story also doesn’t say how the police got hold of these photos, but they did find Shaw in possession. He was jailed for three years.
Det Con Steve Fenyn said Shaw’s conviction was helped by his ego after he was “caught in the act on camera”.
You’ve got to be from the lowest depths of the bottom sewer of society to have any sort of “ego” on something like this. I think it might have had a lot more to do with Shaw’s abnormal number of chromosomes, which would have been passed on to him by whoever and whatever his parents were. I mean, he can’t even be a criminal properly!
It’s a great story, though.