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Darwin Awards
2008 At-Risk Survivor
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

 
 
A Really Bad Commute
2008 At-Risk Survivor
Confirmed True by Darwin

(August 2008, The Netherlands) A 33-year-old man was carpooling to work in Hindeloopen when he mentioned to his colleague that he was carrying a self-made bomb. The driver immediately stopped the car and ejected the lunatic.

Outside the car, the lunatic--er, bomb maker--tried to dis-arm the device in an attempt to wheedle his way back into the vehicle. There was nothing to fear, everything was perfectly safe... until the bomb builder crossed the detonator wires. The bomb exploded, blasting away several of the man's non-vital body parts.

Police describe the hapless carpool driver as "shaken but unharmed."

Category: explosion, work

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Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest

Hardback. 304 pages. Autographed.
$15
The human race's most popular humor series returns with a brand-new collection of macabre mishaps and misadventures. Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, the Darwin Awards III shows once more how uncommon common sense still is.

Salute the sheriff who inadvertently shot himself--twice! Witness the insurance defrauder who amputated his leg with a chainsaw! Heed the story of the farmer who avoided bee stings by sealing his head in a plastic bag! Cringe at the man crushed by a branch he'd just severed... directly over his head!

123 new stories, 18 full-page illustrations, plus discussions of transgenic animals, the origin of life, and more.

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