Darwin Award: the most ridiculous deaths

Charles Darwin is known throughout the world as the creator of the theory of evolution. According to the scientist, its main driving force is natural selection. In the ruthless world of nature, stupid and weak individuals die, and the smart and strong survive, leaving the offspring to whom the mind and the power of their ancestors are inherited. This is how the monkey transformed into a human being.

Now people are not as vulnerable as in antiquity, and therefore the process of natural selection is slightly stalled. In the modern world even a stupid and weak homo sapiens can survive and leave offspring. But there are pronounced cretins that go away before they even give birth to their children. Thus, they help humanity, because without their genes everything will be much better.

The Darwin Prize, the nominees for which appear every year, is given to people who "took their contributions from the human gene pool." Most of the winners are awarded posthumously, but there are also "unique" who received the prize because of depriving themselves of reproductive organs in the most sophisticated way. In this article, we will quote the top Darwin Prize.

1. Rectal alcoholic

The first place gets Michael Warner from Texas. He was the owner of a small shop and loved to drink. But he introduced alcohol into himself in a non-trivial way, namely through the anus. According to the spouse, 58-year-old Michael very often put himself an enema. It was explained simply - because of a throat, Warner could not drink alcohol, like everyone else.

Once they went with his wife to the party that was Michael's last. He asked his wife to pour into him two 1.5-liter bottles of sherry. As a result, the poor fellow simply lost consciousness, and the next morning he was found dead. After the analysis of blood it was found out, that the maintenance in her of alcohol in 6 times exceeded norm or rate. So, Michael headed the list of "The winners of the Darwin Prize." Who is in second place?

2. The Mole Killer

Second place is unconditionally received by the 63-year-old German, who was killed by the desire to exterminate the mole, who settled with him on the local area. The pensioner used everything, but to no avail. Then the German decided to resort to a radical method: he connected the metal rods to the high-voltage line and stuck them into the ground. Despite the security measures taken, the current still fell on the land where the pensioner was. In general, he went to the light with the mole.

3. The death dispute

The Darwin Prize and the third place in the top are given to two friends from the city of Valparaiso. They decided to play the argument "in a coward." The essence of the game was as follows: who will not get off the rail before the approaching train, he won. The time of the dispute was midnight. It all ended in tragedy: the defeated Patrick Stiff was shot down to death. The driver did not even slow down, because he did not notice the disputants.

4. Demolition of the barn

The Darwin Prize and the fourth place of the top for the inhabitant of Virginia, who decided to demolish the old barn. He started the chainsaw and began to dismantle the structure. Or out of ignorance, or greatly carried away, the poor man sawed the load-bearing beams. As a result, the whole design fell on the diligent worker.

5. Behind two hares

The fifth place at the 29-year-old Oscar - the teacher of computer literacy. The Darwin Award went to an American for performing two incompatible things: driving a car and typing on a laptop. At high speed, he flew to the oncoming lane and crashed into the Hummer. The teacher died on the spot, and the SUV passengers received only a few bruises.

6. Liquid nitrogen

Sixth place in our compatriot, decided to hit his girlfriend. On the Internet, he watched a video about how a man dipped his hand in nitrogen and pulled it unscathed. It is a pity that he did not fully understand all the features of the experiment. The man in the video dipped his hand with water, which became a barrier between the skin and nitrogen. Therefore, she remained unscathed. The Russian had to watch the video more attentively. But he did not do it, but got a canister with liquid nitrogen and decided to repeat the experiment before his lover, putting his hand in the container. Our hero did not last long. The pain became unbearable, and he yanked out his hand, but at the same time he touched the canister and tipped its contents to his crotch. Needless to say, he's got it all frozen ...

7. Phone-gun

The Darwin Award (the most ridiculous deaths) and seventh in the 47-year-old Charles Barger. At night, he woke up from a phone call. Trying to find the phone, Barger took the revolver, brought it to his ear, and pulled the trigger.

8. Fell from the roof and exploded on the toilet

The eighth place is from a resident of Los Angeles, who was busy repairing the roof of his house. Before climbing it, he took precautions and tied a safety line. The second end of the prudent American tied to the bumper of his car, standing in the courtyard. The only thing he did not do was not to warn his wife. While the husband repaired the roof, she gathered for shopping, got behind the wheel and drove off. Torn from the roof of the poor man made her on a trip to the company's first store.

Surgeons saved his life, but the story did not end there. In honor of her husband's discharge from the hospital, the husband decided to have a party. The arrival of smokers was expected, so she started refueling the lighter with gasoline over the toilet. He spilled a lot of fuel. After that the husband came into the toilet and sat comfortably with the newspaper, lighting a cigarette. When he finished, he habitually dropped the cigarette butt into the toilet. From the explosion, the husband received burns incompatible with life. In general, Darwin's prize, the nominees for which are collected from around the world, went to the poor man deservedly.

9. I spent a lot of time with alcohol

In the ninth place decently drunk a man who was going home and received a blow to the head. Despite the broken skull, he stood up and continued on his way. A quarter later, he was hit by a motorcyclist, breaking his unfortunate hand. He nevertheless reached home, but stumbled on the porch, fell, broke both legs. In the morning his wife found him dead. The medical expert concluded: "The cause of death was alcohol poisoning."

10. The Death Pen

The Darwin Award and the tenth place in a woman walking in the mountains. She saw a light feather on the ground and wanted to lift it, but the wind blew, and it was at the fence. Instead of going further, the unfortunate rushed to catch him and fell from a height of 300 meters. From the resulting craniocerebral injury, she died the next day.

11. Safety glass

The eleventh place at the Canadian Harry Hoy. He was one of the best lawyers in Toronto. Among his entertainments was a demonstration of the strength of the windows in the office. This he frightened visitors and colleagues. To check, Harry ran and rushed to the glass. 24 the lawyer's attempt was crowned with success. He broke through the glass and fell out of the skyscraper window.

12. Love of nature

And closes our top botanist from California. He was very fond of nature and tried not to pollute it. Being in one of the reserves on the rocky coast of the ocean, the naturalist decided to address the need. In order not to pollute the soil, he began to do it from the cliff to the sea, but he could not resist and crashed to death.

These were the brightest winners of the Darwin Prize. We wish you never be among them!