Darwin Award Nominees....

Thekwango

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not meaning to be insensitive to the families of those involved, but seriously how stupid can people get? I know alcohol is most likely a mitigating factor in both the stories below, but still......jumping in with alligators and launching a mortar style firework from the top of your head, how did they think that would ever end well???:confused:

Southeast Texan dies after Leaping into Water Screaming **** that Alligator....

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...-marina-screaming-fk-alligator_n_7733946.html

Maine man killed after trying to launch firework from top of his head.....

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/05/maine-firework-kills-man-head

anybody come across anything equally as daft?
 
Its only a darwin award if they die or lose their reproductive function
The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions circa 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions.
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The guy didn't win a Darwin Award as he didn't die, but police pulled a car once when it ran a red light and the driver was drunk, one armed driving an unadapted car while on his mobile phone :p
 
Stretch said:
Need more bubble wrap.
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I bet if you had a few feet layer around you then you could jump from a building and not die like the russians jumping from flatts into a few feet of snow

Give it a try and see if it works you could be the next darwin award candidate
 
Bubble wrap isn't ideal for shedding energy from a massive fall.

I'd go for something which would sap kinetic energy by disintegrating rather than compress to give a sharp recoil in the manner of a rubber ball bouncing off a surface.

A giant uncompressed pile of snow would be a good start.
 
arknor said:
Its only a darwin award if they die or lose their reproductive function
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Definitely worth an honourable mention though! Sometimes the level of idiocy in humans baffles me.

Don't get me wrong, I've done my fair share of daft things - especially when drunk - but some of the stints folks get up to now beggars belief. I suppose the rise of social media, youtube etc contributes. People were always being stupid, but we're only really seeing it so often now thanks to mobile phone videos etc. and the wannabes who risk life and limb for their 15minites of fame and the all important 'likes' and 'views' are just part and parcel of modern society now.
 
Thekwango said:
Definitely worth an honourable mention though! Sometimes the level of idiocy in humans baffles me.

Don't get me wrong, I've done my fair share of daft things - especially when drunk - but some of the stints folks get up to now beggars belief. I suppose the rise of social media, youtube etc contributes. People were always being stupid, but we're only really seeing it so often now thanks to mobile phone videos etc. and the wannabes who risk life and limb for their 15minites of fame and the all important 'likes' and 'views' are just part and parcel of modern society now.
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In Mother Russia they built parks that selectively filter them out them out from a very young age

The hamster wheel thing surely must have turned a few kids into amputees
 
arknor said:
In Mother Russia they built parks that selectively filter them out them out from a very young age


The hamster wheel thing surely must have turned a few kids into amputees
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The automatic translated captions on that were... interesting...
 
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