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Actually, what you needed is some helium baloons to really make your applications fly!

in car entertainment centers don't kill people. Morons who try and watch movies while driving kill people.

The same moron will die when he tries use WAP to buy a book from Amazon while cruising the Autobahn at 120

Honestly though, if your "cousin" had died while doing this, i'd recm'd you submit his story here. I'd sure vote for him.

-malakai

Well, the Darwin tale is certainly a fake (I've heard innumerable different versions) and while the linked story from the parent possesses the earmarks, it's a more amusing read altogether. The Motor Trend link was pretty cool and probably inspired some remarkable idiocy, but I don't think anyone was killed doing it. At least, not in a "sublimely idiotic fashion" worthy of the Darwin Awards.

This reminds me of that old story about a guy attaching a jet to his Chevy and killing himself, thus meriting a Darwin Award.

Except the guy with the water rocket car seems far more clever. I want to make one of these myself!

That story received a Darwin Award in 1995.

Dave

...that you're trying to turn an urban legend into a real Darwin Award.

Soko

No, certainly not.

8. Remember to dress properly for snowmaking.

...because otherwise you could end up on record as the strangest death ever - dying in a blizzard in your back yard in June.

Should we nominate them as a group or each individual independently?

(what is it about intelligence and the desire to blow things up?)

You mean "Natural Selection"?

Unacompanied baggage comes to mind as being the thing to do unless the dude is a candidate for a Darwin Award...

Of course, every time an Iraqi would key up his radio mic we'd DF his location and call in either artillery or AH-64 Apaches on his location, so they had the benefit of the School of Hard Knocks going for them...

Or maybe it was just natural selection...

Did anyone ever hear the one about the guy with the JATO?

Natural selection in action.

Hey, and for an added bonus the kid could be the youngest winner of a Darwin Award known to date - think of the prestige for his family!

: )

Any prizes for beating the 86 hour mark for gaming?

So, are you suicidal or Darwinistic?

We should illegalize lawn chairs as well, then.

Yes, there is!

This mod will also serve as a (hopefully) nice example of the necessity of fault current protection switches. The guy squeezes the mains power cord through a gap between the power supply and the case, without any protection whatsoever and has the clock PSU dangling in his computer case without the protection of the clock's case. Hey buddy, people who realize that they are not electrical engineers but still do this kind of stuff are stupid and need to take a closer look at this site.

Possibly the ... funniest ... Darwin Award ... ever

"Morons - didn't their moms teach them to look before they cross?"

So electric engines will start a new phase in evolution. Darwinist selection of the ones with the best chance of survival...

It's fairly safe, as long as you don't swallow it.

If you're stupid enough to do that, like this guy , then you're well on your way to qualifying for a Darwin Award.

Reminds me of this urban legend.

Don't know if this is true, but read here

Don't let the fact these *suggestions* are at darwinawards.com put you off. ;P

Silver nitrate, magnesium, and a drop of water
Drink liquid nitrogen!

They're completely safe really - I found them in "honourable mentions" so they're not actual, proper, Darwins!

Don't let the fact these *suggestions* are at darwinawards.com put you off. ;P

Silver nitrate, magnesium, and a drop of water
Drink liquid nitrogen!

They're completely safe really - I found them in "honourable mentions" so they're not actual, proper, Darwins!

I've heard of people drinking small amounts of liquid nitrogen. This is beyond stupid.

No kidding.

Sounds like a worthy candidate for a Darwin Award!

If you need any ideas, check here. ;)

Seriously though, it reminds me of Darwin Award where the guy had cesium...

LARRY WALTERS survivied his ordeal.
He only gets an honorable mention!

My point being that he did something ridiculous and stupid -- and survived! And ignorant know it alls misremember the facts and claim he got killed.

Most of the time, you do something really stupid, you get maimed / dead. Sometimes you end up with a really god story. Please note that there is a difference.

At face value this does sound really dumb. But if someone could build a "wave cancellation" device that listens to the sounds coming into my cubicle...and then transmits that same sound 180 degrees out of phase towards me, thus turning my cubicle into my own private quiet space...I would be very very happy glad for it.

You mean so that you can't hear the fire alarm? Great idea!

Build it yourself and you might just earn yourself an honourable mention in the Darwin awards

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.h tml.

Enough said.

It can burn tanks, too.

Are you sure the deaths were because of SAS in the last year? According to an article on the Darwin Awards, there's been a total of 42 roller-coaster related deaths in the last 11 years. And I'm willing to bet that a vast majority of the cases were user stupidity, with the rest machine malfunction. Roller coasters are incredibly safe considering how many people ride them each year.

Sir, you should submit your case to the Darwin Awards. As the nature of the injury precludes the replication of your genes, you are very likely to win a Darwin award. See, your situation isn't all bad!

Honorable Mention: (un)Armed and Dangerous
Call Girl
Sinking Feeling

Honorable Mention: (un)Armed and Dangerous
Call Girl
Sinking Feeling

Honorable Mention: (un)Armed and Dangerous
Call Girl
Sinking Feeling

I forsee a new contestant for the Darwin Awards.

If you've seen this article before: yes, I know. Some people haven't. This is for them. Thanks.

If you've seen this article before: yes, I know. Some people haven't. This is for them. Thanks.

Here's a live shot of my friend trying to get something out of it for free.

http://www.darwinawards.com/i/art/zeebarf/coke.jpg

• "Vending Machine Tip Over Crushes 8 Year Old Girl"
  
  • "The vending machine did not have any warnings regarding the tip over. "
    Well, no wonder!
  
  
• "2001 Darwin Awards: Coke Is It!"
  
  • "'Even as it fell over, the vending machine did not let out a single can,' the coroner reported."
    Lol.
  
  
  
• "Family files suit two years after teen dies in machine accident"
  
  • "The complaint [filed against the owner of the machine, the company that installed it and the company that owns the apartment building where the accident happened] alleges the defendants were negligent in installing and maintaining a machine that was dangerously unstable."
    In response, the community sued the parents for producing a kid so rediculously stupid and then trying to shift the blame so they could get money.
  
  
• From Reader's Digest:
  • "When 17-year-old Gary Forestell ran to get soft drinks for his friends from a vending machine at a truck stop near Belleville, Ont., he tipped the machine forward just enough for the drinks to slide out - without putting in any money. Tipped too far, the machine crashed to the ground. When Gary didn't return, a friend went in search of him. He found him crushed to death."
  • "Prevention: Warn children never to rock or tip vending machines, and make sure that machines at school are bolted to walls or the floor."
    Also, warn your children never to walk up to a boulder on a hill and pull it towards them. But damn, your kids would have to be pretty stupid.

If this were true, please explain:

why we are using word processors instead of typewriters or movable type presses.

Why spread sheets are needed? We could use register paper instead of an expensive computer.

Index cards are cheaper than databases. Lets go pull the plug on that expensive DB server.

Customers and vendors don't really need to do stuff with our web site, they can call in to our customer service lines. Oh, we'll need more bodies in customer service...

Who needs e-mail. Snail mail is fine for what we do...

Why should we search the web for the best prices, just order catalogs once a year and go to the public library more often to do research.

Now that we've deflated the hype around computers, lets talk about telephones, fax machines, pagers, and cell phones, and why we don't need them anymore.

After that, if they back off, then ask a simple easy question: Do you think any of that stuff runs itself?

Seriously, if anyone said that IT has been proven to be a waste of money, I'd look for an ulterior motive. Fast.

Now, if they mean that a lot of people went overboard, well, I don't think I could argue against them there. One only needs to look at Darwin Awards to see that a lot of people do go overboard... and kill themselves doing it. The trick of it is not to be a lemming.

Maybe he'll run into Rocketguy Brian Walker, and it'll be a 2-for-1 Darwin Award.

"Linux is free like a puppy."...only occasionally craps on the carpet or chews my shoes. Now Windows on the otherhand...

makes you feel like that poor zookeeper, Friedrich Riesfeldt.

Larry Walters didn't win a Darwin Award. You can only win a Darwin if you remove yourself from the gene pool (i.e. kill yourself or destroy your ability to reproduce). He did, however, recieve an honorable mention.

Gene pools are wonderful things, aren't they? ...And to think that these guys probably left the pool without the dubious honour of entering the hall of fame.

We don't need seatbelt laws, we have Darwin Awards