It becomes far more plausible if you imagine beer being involved.
TIL the Darwin Award website hasn’t been updated since 2022. 
They’re still alive, but…
Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord’s son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg in what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said.
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