2000 Darwin Awards
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Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. |
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 Polar Bear Swim 2000 Darwin Award Nominee Confirmed True by Darwin
This 38-year-old man was enjoying a hockey game with friends on Kingsmere Lake when he attempted a Polar Bear swim between holes cut two meters apart on the lake. He dove in at 1:30 AM and failed to resurface. It is common knowledge that it is nearly impossible to find a small hole in the ice once you've slid beneath the surface. Particularly when you are suffering from the effects of hypothermia: low blood pressure, confusion, and weakness. Frantic friends jumped in but were unable to find him. They aimed car headlights at the hole to help Adrian find his way back, but to no avail. "The water was only waist deep," said the man's brother. "He must have gotten disoriented." Adrian's frigid body was recovered Saturday by firefighters, not far from the ice hole that tempted him to his doom. Sascha Leib commented on 3/13/2000: DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2012
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