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By Wendy Northcutt

"Only issues are infinite-the universe and human stupidity, and I'm now not so certain concerning the universe." -Albert Einstein, medical consultant to the Darwin Awards, introduces the mythical site that commemorates the continues to be of people that have stronger our gene pool via killing themselves in quite silly methods, displaying us simply how unusual logic could be.
Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb again to him for inadequate postage. surprise on the thief who steals electric wires with no shutting off the present. Gape on the would-be pilot who flies his lawnchair suspended from helium balloons into air site visitors lanes. And research from the guy who friends right into a fuel can utilizing a cigarette lighter. All 4 contend for Darwin Awards whilst their offerings culminate in amazing misadventures.
These stories of trial and awe-inspiring error--verified via the writer and recommended via site readers--illustrate the continuing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory. together with new fabric by no means prior to visible, in addition to favourite award winners from years earlier, The Darwin Awards vividly portrays the best examples of evolution in motion.

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But Since most of the idiots who get bitten by their fifteen-foot snakes the authorities arrived too also have alcohol around, this inlate. The snake had alformation could save lives, both ready constricted around human and reptilian. its owner’s chest and squeezed him breathless. One wonders whether the snake owner used his free arm to flip the bird to his squeamish wife before he died. NATURAL SELECTION: ANIMAL MISADVENTURES 33 DARWIN AWARD: WHAT’S NEW, PUSSYCAT? Confirmed by Darwin MAY 1999, SPAIN Two German tourists were enjoying their last day of vacation at Safari Park, a wild game park in Alicante.

How could evolution go so badly awry? The answer is that lemmings do not commit mass suicide when their population grows too large. They migrate, and during the mass migration, a few animals are pushed from a cliff, or mistake open ocean for a stream. The legend of the suicidal lemming proliferated after the 1958 Disney nature documentary White Wilderness showed staged shots of lemmings jumping from a cliff. Learn more about lemmings! html 20 THE DARWIN AWARDS We animals are all subject to the same process of evolution.

Pink Floyd, “Sheep” NATURAL SELECTION: ANIMAL MISADVENTURES 39 DARWIN AWARD: HUMAN HITCHING POST Unconfirmed by Darwin 8 MARCH 2000, NEVADA A woman we’ll call Stephanie, twenty-nine, was working with her young and spirited Arabian horse, which she had won in a lottery the previous year. The animal was only partially trained, and still a bit spooky. Every time Stephanie tried to don its bridle, the horse threw back its head and frustrated her efforts. Then Stephanie had her brilliant idea. She tied a rope around the Arabian’s head, and fastened the other end around her waist to keep the horse from throwing its head back.

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