Darwin Awards

[nightmare3983]

https://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/

I remember one of my teachers in 7th grade would occasionally read some of these to us. If anyone is unfamiliar with the Darwin Awards, they go to people who die (or in some cases who just get hurt) doing stupid things, or in other words, giving weight to Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Here's one to get the thread going:

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-38.html

5 September 1999, Jerusalem In most parts of the world, the switch away from Daylight Saving Time proceeds smoothly. But the time change raised havoc with Palestinian terrorists this year.

Israel insisted on a premature switch from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time to accommodate a week of pre-sunrise prayers. Palestinians refused to live on "Zionist Time." Two weeks of scheduling havoc ensued. Nobody knew the "correct" time.

At precisely 5:30pm on Sunday, two coordinated car bombs exploded in different cities, killing three terrorists who were transporting the bombs. It was initially believed that the devices had been detonated prematurely by klutzy amateurs. A closer look revealed the truth behind the explosions.

The bombs had been prepared in a Palestine-controlled area, and set to detonate on Daylight Saving Time. But the confused drivers had already switched to Standard Time. When they picked up the bombs, they neglected to ask whose watch was used to set the timing mechanism. As a result, the cars were still en-route when the explosives detonated, delivering the terrorists to their untimely demises.

 

[nightmare3983]

OK, let's get a little crazier to get some discussion.

"The ***** Within"

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-13.html

EDIT: I'm surprised that got censored.

 

[ema]

I'm trying to understand that site and your thread but I'm very tired today, may I do that tomorrow or so? Wouldn't want to left your thread desolate.

 

[Weezur]

This reminds me of that show "1000 ways to die" and it shows really coincidental deaths. Some are stupid, but some are incredibly ironic.

They should make a sequel to that show: "1000 ways for Darwinification"

 

[nightmare3983]

This reminds me of that show "1000 ways to die" and it shows really coincidental deaths. Some are stupid, but some are incredibly ironic.

They should make a sequel to that show: "1000 ways for Darwinification"

I'm not familiar with 1000 ways to die but re-enactments of some of the Darwin Awards for a show would be awesome. Note that I said some. The second one I mentioned in this thread would NOT be good to re-enact.