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* [[Alcohol-Induced Idiocy]]: The excessive consumption of intoxicating beverages often plays a major role in these stories.
** A few of the books have had to include disclaimers explaining that this doesn't excuse you from winning a Darwin Award, since it was your decision to get drunk in the first place.
* [[Ballistic Discount]]: Subverted. The [[Sarcasm Mode|genius]] who decided to rob a gun store, H&J Leather & Firearms, fails ''miserably''. The story was good enough that it also wound up on [[1000 Ways to Die]].
** This story has been [http://www.snopes.com/crime/dumdum/gunshop.asp embellished] in some of the minor details, such as the number and calibre of bullets fired. The basic idea, that someone tried to rob a firearms store (with a marked police car parked outside and the officer - and other firearms customers - in the store) is true, as is this person's untimely demise at, predictably, gunpoint.
* [[Black Comedy]], [[Cringe Comedy]]
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: There are a few stories dealing with attempted rapes that went horribly, horribly wrong. Like the story of the woman who ''bit her assailant's balls off''. And took off with them, and ''handed them in to the police'', which meant her assailant was arrested when he checked into the hospital with a matching injury. The evidence proceedings for ''that'' case must have been interesting.
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