Part Deux: A little lighter
This is the second of two posts this week. This is your extra credit only. The other is your assignment. Make sure that you read both. :)
Extra Credit: While I clearly have issues with Social Darwinists and the Naturalist movement, I am humored by another response to Charles Darwin - The Darwin Awards!
In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival. Accidental self-sterilization also qualifies. However, the site notes: "Of necessity, the award is usually bestowed posthumously." But the candidate is disqualified if "innocent bystanders", who might have contributed positively to the gene pool, are killed in the process.
Visit the Darwin Awards site and start reading. Do this when you have time, because you will have a blast reading about the stupid things people do. Maybe eugenicists were right after all. I kid, I kid. For extra credit, tell me about one of the winners of the award and what they did to earn it. Include your information as a reply to this post. Read the other replies first, because you have to be the first to tell about that award winner to get the EC.
ms christian im not sure if where it says 2010 award nominees is where i should be looking or not.
ReplyDeletehere's mine. Kilel H. (name spelled wrong) nominated for the darwin awards at age 20 when she died by impact of a guardrail on a highway/interstate while she was trying to change seats with her friend in tehh passenger seat. her friend made it and she didn;t.
ReplyDelete-Jerome a prisoner from Pennsylvania, December, 1997. he tied ropes together and tried to exscape through a window, but the rope was old and the broken glass from the window caused it to rip and he fell 150 feet ; and died ! :)
ReplyDelete-November 3, 1998; another prisoner tried the same thing but he was not as lucky. He fell 25 feet, sprung his ankle, and scraped his face, but was still incarcerated.
A 35 year old man from Braila was trying to fix an old soil tamper hand-made from his father decades back. The handle of the soil tamper was a family heirloom, however, the antique had become rusty so the man trys welding it back to its orginal postion. Unfortuatly, he was welding the medal rod to an antique WWII cannon shell. Specialists believed that the weld had been made in a harmless postion and the second had been made in exactly the wrong spot. The heat set off the shell only injuring the 35 year old man. He was sure the explosive was harmless because his father used to compact the earth.
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ReplyDelete1 October 2010, ARIZONA | The Grand Canyon, one of the seven wonders of the world, recently welcomed home the soul of one of the witless wonders of the world. The death of a 42-year-old California man named Andrew, who was leaping from outcropping to outcropping on the South Rim near Pipe Creek Vista, reminds me of an incident in March 2000 involving a "financial entrepreneur" visiting the famous National Park. Because of the tiresome problem of tourists farting their way into disaster, the more treacherous overlooks in the Grand Canyon are protected by fences and signs. All of these overlooks are spectacular. Some have towering columns, some have small plateaus that tourists toss coins onto, like dry wishing wells.
Make a wish!
One entrepreneur wished for financial success. And there in front of him was a means to an end. He had a brilliant, an obvious, idea. No stranger to danger, the man climbed over the fence with a bag, leapt to one of the precarious, coin-covered perches, and filled the bag with booty. Harvest time!
But. When he tried to leap back to the safe side, he went head to head with physics. Specifically, F = mg. Our entrepreneur had increased his mass, and the force required to lift himself against the pull of gravity was now greater.
The heavy bag of coins arrested his jump, and the birds were treated to a view of his long plunge to the valley floor below, followed by a shower of coins. Brilliant idea with a fatal flaw in the execution.
the best site ever... but its also some how sad to see.. how people could do such foolish things..and I see how the common sense could sometimes betray people, when they need it the most...
Glad you enjoyed it Sakib, but yes, a sad thing that common sense is so absent!
ReplyDeleteDouble Parking-Francisco C. and Ronaldo C are two rivals who are mad over a parking situstion. they both had a gun in thier car so they shot at each other. they both died. this is how they won the award.
ReplyDeleteMichael Hilling, 19,was pronounced dead at 1:36 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital,after he jumped into Lake Michgan to retrieve his girlfriend's water bottle.
ReplyDeleteHilling was sitting along side his girlfriend when her water bottle fell into the lake,& he jumped into the water trying to retrieve it but went under water.
Debra Hilling, his mother, said that she could not understand what had happened because she and most people close to her son knew that he couldn't swim.
What a dumb mistake to do just to impress a girl!