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Visit the Darwin Awards Giftshop
Hardback. 327 pages. Autographed.
$15
185 Stories! In the ongoing saga of Survival of the Fittest, meet the
thief who steals electrical wires without shutting off the current! Marvel
at the would-be pilot who suspends his lawnchair from helium balloons!
Learn from the man who peers into a gas can using a cigarette lighter...!
This book also includes a History of the Darwin Awards,
Darwin Haiku, and a dozen humorous discussions of the implications of
evolution, including the origin of idiots, and the role of
testosterone.
Autographed by Author!
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Return to Trees Fails
(18 February 2002, Hawaii) Millennia after an evolving human species descended from the trees, 30-year-old Joshua reversed the process, removing himself from the gene pool while perched in a tree. Joshua had hiked several miles onto a ranch and climbed a Koa tree under cover of darkness, intent upon stealing a branch of the expensive native hardwood. To his credit, he was smarter than a classic cartoon character, and didn't make the mistake of cutting the branch supporting him. However he was not smart enough to avoid cutting a branch directly above his head. The severed branch struck and killed him, and authorities found him still in the tree, twenty feet off the ground.
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