Darwin Awards -- July 4, 2015

Greece overwhelming goes for broke. 

Greeks voted overwhelmingly "No" on Sunday in a historic bailout referendum, partial results showed, defying warnings from across Europe that rejecting new austerity terms for fresh financial aid would set their country on a path out of the euro.

With nearly a fifth of the votes counted, official figures showed 60.4 percent of Greeks on course to reject a bailout offer from creditors that was the official issue of the ballot. The figures showed the Yes vote drew 40.1 percent. An official projection of the final result is expected at 1800 GMT (1400 EDT).

Maybe the Greeks misunderstood.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Santa Esmeralda (I initially had another group, a newer version, but this is still the classic.  I had not choice but to return to the Animals.)
This should make it easy for Greece's creditors (EC, ECB, EU, IMF, EIEIO) to decide what to do. Had it been a "yes" vote or even a closer "no" vote, it would have been tough for Ms Merkel et al to say sayonara to Greece, but this vote speaks volumes. The Greeks apparently have a lot of money under their mattresses, have stored up a lot of food, and saw Putin wink.

All they need to do is turn on the drachma printing presses beginning Monday.

I cannot make this stuff up.

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Speaking of things I cannot make up:

CALAIS, Maine (AP) — A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself.

Devon "that was easy" Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in the backyard of a friend's home in the small eastern Maine city of Calais, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety. Staples, 22, of Calais, placed a fireworks mortar tube on his head and set it off.

The firework exploded, killing Staples instantly. "That was easy."

His death is the first fireworks fatality in Maine since the state legalized fireworks on Jan. 1, 2012.

I guess it's time Maine goes back to banning fireworks. Or ban the practice of launching fireworks off one's head without a helmet.

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By the way, this is where Drudge often fails. Well after the Greek referendum vote story had been posted by most mainstream media outlets, Drudge still had very, very old news "above the fold."