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Email a Friend The stupidity displayed by the participants in the following tales stops short of the ultimate Darwin Awards sacrifice. Nevertheless, we salute the spirit and innovation of their misadventures. Next Prev Random

Stormwater Surfer
2007 Honorable Mention
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(January 2007, Australia) A 25-year-old Brisbane man came frightfully close to literally sucking himself down the drain of the gene pool! When flash floods turned Brisbane streets into raging rivers, this one thought it would be fun to catch a wave on his surfboard. Fun was fun, until his foot wedged in a storm drain and he was sucked down.

After a bumpy and winding three kilometer ride through the storm sewer, he popped out in a creek, relatively unscathed. The young man who found the lucky survivor had this advice for those thinking to emulate the surfer's adventure: "Never surf on a flooded street."

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Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection

Hardback. 240 pages. Autographed.
$15
A fresh collection of magnificent misadventures! Lust, Vanity, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, and Wrath extract an evolutionary toll on the wicked. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety video. Witness the man who becomes a victim of his own strange passion for jumping into rivers. Heed the honest bricklayer who loses a battle of wits with 300 pounds of tools.

This book includes more History of the Awards, Gordon's Law, and 10 discussions of evolution, including speciation and the role of verbal memes in civilization.

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