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The Inquisitr: Darwin Awards 2008

  • Stilgherrian · 11 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.
  • Allan · 11 months ago
    Sorry Champ those aren't the Darwin awards;

    http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/darwin06...
  • Duncan Riley · 11 months ago
    I suspected as such, but the list was still pretty cool :-)
  • Some Guy · 11 months ago
    do you even bother checking this stuff?
  • Hilds · 11 months ago
  • Willow · 11 months ago
    It wouldn't be a real Darwin awards list cause "second place" didn't even remove himself from the gene pool.
  • Anon · 11 months ago
    second place doesn't qualify, he's still in the gene-pool
  • Megan · 11 months ago
    Was second place given to Kerry Bingham's foot? Else this needs to be replaced.
  • Scott · 11 months ago
    Damn cool...good list despite the detractors.
  • Anand · 11 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.
  • Adam · 11 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.
  • Elia Diodati · 11 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...
  • ld · 10 months ago
    These aren't 2008 Darwin's they're from other years.
    LD
  • Cindy · 9 months ago
    these are the 2006 Darwins.
  • stevem · 9 months ago
    It doesn't matter what year, these are great. 200 pounds of packy derm dung at terminal velocity rocks.