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2009 Darwin Award Winners Announced

Posted by samzenpus on from the dumber-and-dumberest dept.

Greg Lindahl writes "From the woman who jumped in a swollen creek to rescue her drowning moped, to the man who hopped over the divider at the edge of the highway to take a leak, and plunged 65 feet to his death, 2009 was a year both exceptional and unexceptional for Darwin Award-worthy behavior!"

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  1. Re:While slightly humorous by d34dluk3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they died honorably rescuing people or something, yeah. Jumping in a creek after a freaking moped, not so much.

  2. Re:While slightly humorous by spun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right. The lady in question was driving a moped because she had a prior DUI. She ran a police roadblock into a flooded street and ended up going over an embankment into a flooded creek. The police rescued her. She then jumped BACK into the creek.

    Yes indeed, could have happened to any one of us.

    But yes, things are less funny when people die because, you know, we've got so few people and it's so hard to make new ones.

    --
    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  3. Re:While slightly humorous by winwar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "And when you go around mocking the people who died doing something stupid, often times you are too busy laughing to know the whole story."

    And how would knowing the whole story make her actions any less stupid? Her actions led to her death. Mocking her actions is a good thing-it might encourage others not to do similar things.

    I'd like to think I would never do anything as stupid as that but if I do, I fully expect to be mocked for it. Because I'd deserve it.