Some entries in YouTube collections are just accidents, true, which aren't
really Darwin Award candidates but just pad out the video. For example, you
can't be too young to know better or mentally disabled, or the victim of someone
else's stupidity or just bad luck while acting responsibly such as many at the
next link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmed_deaths
You have to juggle live grenades, check the inside of a fuel tanker with a
lighter, trim a branch you're standing on over a branch shredder, use an enema
of hard liquor, jump out of a plane then realize your parachute is just a
camcorder pack, pull someone out of a frozen pond by the action end of a shot-
gun, try to do a skateboard grind off a roof onto a metal railing, etc. You
have to do something which if you saw a loved one try it you'd tackle them and
say, "Noooo." It has to be something which did or could take a stupid person
out of the gene pool to help prove Darwin right. See the Wikipedia link above.
Rules
http://www.darwinawards.com/rules/
Winners
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/
Winner 2011
Let's say you're successful at ramming through an elevator door with a motor-
ized chair. Why would you want to?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqgWkqSVTTI
Darwin Award history:
Franz Reichelt (1879 -- 1912) tried to be the first to come up with a para-
chute for aviators but fasiled. He decided a lack of a suitably high test
platform was partly to blame. He promised authorities he's use a dummy for
a trial of his parachute, which looks like a huge overcoat, from the Eiffel
Tower. With a camera rolling, and despite protests from friends, refusing a
safety rope, he did it himself. They measured the dent he made in the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_U
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt
