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A California woman shot herself and a friend with a .44-caliber Magnum revolver while trying to hunt mice in her trailer.  The 43-year-old woman pulled out the gun after seeing mice scurry across the floor.  But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it hit the floor.  The bullet shot through her kneecap, bounced off the keys on the belt of a 42-year-old man in her trailer, and grazed the man’s groin before ending up in his coin pocket.  The mice were unharmed.

As of 2005, the life expectancy rate in the U.S. was 80.4 years for women, 75.2 years for men. What’s the cause for this great disparity?  On average, men consume more tobacco, alcohol and drugs than women.  Men are more likely than women to commit suicide, be murdered, and die in wars.  Men also tend to take more risks than women by driving fast cars and motorcycles.

But as these pictures show, men are simply more likely to have the “stupid gene” than women:

Standing on a bucket on TOP of a ladder, brilliant.

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The Segway is a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle. Computers, gyroscopic sensors and motors in the base of the vehicle keep the Segway balanced upright. Users lean forward to go forward, lean back to go backward, and turn by leaning the handlebar left or right. The Segway electric motor enables it to travel up to 12.5 mph.

Although the Segway is easy to drive once you get the hang of it, the gyroscopes won’t keep the vehicle upright if you crash it into other vehicles, as shown in this funny video:

Sloan Carafello of Schenectady, New York, was on a flight with the Duanesburg Skydiving Club.  His job was to videotape the skydivers in the plane as they prepared to jump.

Robert Rawlins, pilot and owner of the single-engine plane, opened the door at 10,000 feet to allow the divers to jump.  An instructor, student and videographer jumped out of the plane.  As Rawlins had begun to close the door, the 29-year-old Carafello inexplicably jumped out the door with camera in hand but no parachute on his back.

His dead body was found next to a house with a damaged roof west of Albany.  Police said they did not suspect foul play but would not elaborate.