Is it stupid to die? They can. Has the U.S. biologist Wendy Northcutt figured out for themselves - and awards since 1994, the rather unflattering "Darwin Award, a prize for people who accidentally kill themselves, and even stupid.
Natural selection in the spirit of the famous evolutionary theorist - which saw 2009 from this:
• winners were two Belgian bank robber. In Dinant they blew up at an ATM. Hardy only that they miscalculated the amount of dynamite - and with pulverized.
• Second place went to Shawn Motero (30). The Florida was stuck in a traffic jam. When he had emptied his bladder, he jumped from his car just across a low wall. Not so clever: He stood on a bridge and fell 20 meters to his death.
• macabre Rosanne Tippett honored with 3rd place The juckelte with her scooter into a flooded river. Although she was rescued. But then she jumped into the water to retrieve the scooter - and drowned.
• Mieczyskaw Mil (64), the man with the deadly chainsaw. He wanted to repair the 4800-volt power line to his house. For that he drew extra plastic bags over his shoes, stood in a puddle when he ansÃĪgte the line. Availed nothing: dead
• Or the British: The 41-year-old from York, wanted to reduce his garden shed. The first tore the walls of this book. Then he remembered the concrete slab on his head.
• And Devan Leann (30). The friend wanted to show her how great they can paddle with a mattress on the roaring Lake Ehrling. Problem: There was a foam mattress. Her body appeared only a day later.
