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Darwin Awards 2008

Started by Duncan Riley · 7 months ago

The winners of the 2008 Darwin Awards, “Deaths That Lead to Improvement of the Gene Pool” are currently doing the rounds.
The following comes from an email I received; I can’t confirm the results with the site which doesn’t seem to have been upd ... Continue reading »

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Stilgherrian
7 months ago

Alas, I think this list is a hoax. The Darwin Awards website lists the "first place" one about the constipated elephant as a 1998 Urban Legend.

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Allan
7 months ago

Sorry Champ those aren't the Darwin awards;

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/darwin06...

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Duncan Riley
7 months ago

I suspected as such, but the list was still pretty cool :-)

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Some Guy
7 months ago

do you even bother checking this stuff?

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Hilds
7 months ago

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/darwin06...

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Willow
7 months ago

It wouldn't be a real Darwin awards list cause "second place" didn't even remove himself from the gene pool.

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Anon
7 months ago

second place doesn't qualify, he's still in the gene-pool

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Megan
7 months ago

Was second place given to Kerry Bingham's foot? Else this needs to be replaced.

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Scott
7 months ago

Damn cool...good list despite the detractors.

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Anand
7 months ago

These shouldn't be given this kind of attention. Apart from a few confused individuals, many of them did things we'd find cool were they not killed or maimed for it. Many of them were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And just the idea of calling something the Darwin Awards means that eventually, it should cease to exist along with the betterment of humanity, and we all know that's not going to happen.

And death has always struck me as a sad thing; I don't know maybe its just me.

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Adam
7 months ago

I've heard the one about the firearms store. If I hadn't met so many stupid people in my time I'd think it was a hoax, but I've actually heard of stupider.

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Elia Diodati
7 months ago

Unfortunately, the "Winner" is almost certain a corruption of an urban legend that is well-known to be fake. It even says so on the Darwin Awards website:

http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998...

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