2008 Darwin Awards

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.

Early Retirement Plan 2008 Darwin Award Nominee Confirmed True by Darwin (24 August 2008, Indonesia) Charles had everything going for him when he flew to Jakarta to visit his family. He had just completed his International Baccalaureate at King William's College in the Isle of Man, and his dreams were ambitious. In the school yearbook, he said he planned retire by the age of 30. The principal of the college later described him as "a very bright boy with a very bright future." Unfortunately for Charles, his elite education omitted an important lesson from the curriculum: Electricity, danger of. He had one foot in the backyard swimming pool (really!) when he noticed a cement box near the edge of the pool. It was full of electrical wires supplying power to the jacuzzi. Curious, Charles started to fiddle with a fistful of wires. He was immediately rooted to the spot by 240 volts of electrical current surging through his body. Early retirement, indeed! A post-mortem examination determined that Charles' death was "due to electrocution as a consequence of external grounding of current through the body while partially immersed in water." The 18-year-old's body was repatriated to the Isle of Man. Reader Comment: "Charles was a real live wire!" ORIGINAL SUBMISSION DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2009 Submitted by: Paul Mather Reference: www.iomtoday.co.im Awful? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Great? Hate it! Love it!

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