New Darwin Announcements

DARWIN AWARDS honor those who do the most to improve our genepool--by removing themselves from it, thereby ensuring that the next gen is descended from one fewer idiot.

AWARD WINNER. ALERT! Another Grand Canyon tourist, who was leaping from precipice to precarious precipice, made the plunge.  Do you suppose that those two words have the same roots, 'precipice' and 'precarious'?  It seems obvious that the combination should trigger a warning reflex that keeps an animal away from danger. But nope, not in this case.  Gravity. It's always on.  http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2010-10.html

WHEELCHAIR ACCESS. In a flagrant act of wheelchair abuse, a man, annoyed that an elevator has closed and departed without him, rams his wheelchair into the doors not once, not twice, but THREE times in all--only to plunge down the now-empty elevator shaft to his death.

The elevator windows are transparent so any fool could see that the elevator was gone, gone, gone.

EVOLUTION PRESENTS: The Human Bottle Rocket. Could be a Darwin Award.

2006 incident.  News only now reaching the ears of Charles Darwin. From HIS ears to your eyes.  Sunderland, England paramedics found a prone man suffering injuries including a scorched colon, caused by a Black Cat Thunderbolt rocket.  The 22-year-old had, unbelievably, inserted this rocket in his back side, laid down on his front side, and lit the fuse in an attempt to make the rocket fly up into the air. But it was pointing the other way!  The regional Firework Association chairman spoke for us all when he said, "This sort of thing is beyond belief."