2007 Darwin Award Winners

Web Goddess writes "The 2007 Darwin Award Winners have been announced. Precarious sex, squashed thieves, animals eradicated with electricity, the obligatory macho competition involving a train, and one computer (which survived.) But think twice before you read them. Do you really want to know about The Enema Within?"

The 2007 Darwin Award Winners

[evilviper]

And, no doubt, like every other year, it will be filled with previously disproven and utterly ridiculous urban legends, because they happen to sound better than the real thing.

I think Snopes (or perhaps Mythbusters if you're desperate) should have a "Darwin Awards" special every year.

No great loss...

[anss123]

The winner was a couple that had sex on a roof, followed by someone filling his ass with alcohol. The rest must be 'less amusing' so IOW No balloons on a chair, rocket engines on a car, or skydiver forgetting his ever important backpack.

Re:News for nerds

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Stuff that matters. This is not fark.

Yeah cos we're so much cooler when we filter out the fun and games. I'd bet anything that it was a pointlessly nitpicky Urkel type like you that inspired the invention of the wedgie.

Re:The 2007 Darwin Award Winners

[nuzak]

> I think Snopes [...] should have a "Darwin Awards" special every year.

They do, actually. Well, it pops up in their RSS feed whenever these things make the rounds. The Darwin Awards are never really awarded, it's just that random groups of credulous dumbasses start forwarding various "funny stories" emails en masse and they just paste "Darwin Awards" on them. I don't know, maybe these were "official", I can't bring myself to care anymore. I swear there are even dupes from previous years on the list.

Cashed Version

[Psychotic_Wrath]

I went and got the cashed version

Coitus Interruptus - ? http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:Tn__1Wlm4yAJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-05.html+darwin+awards+2007+Coitus+Interruptus&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

The Enema Within - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:XstNYmjE6HEJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-13.html+darwin+awards+2007+the+enema+within&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

Weight Lift - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:tw9FxHzjlMIJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-10.html+darwin+awards+2007+weighted+lift&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

Support group - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:YTaW1K_CuMMJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-09.html+darwin+awards+2007+support+group&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

Beer for Bears - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:o6AOEFDNMKEJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-08.html+darwin+awards+2007+beer+for+bears&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

Stop. Look. Listen. - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:WzxkuhMGeegJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-11.html+darwin+awards+2007+stop+look+listen&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

A Prop-er Job - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:XJeaf-KVQLEJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-03.html+darwin+awards+2007+%22a+prop-er+job%22&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

Oil Tank Trampoline - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:K6PCQLDDR04J:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-06.html+darwin+awards+2007+oil+tank+trampoline&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

Superior Momentum - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:oAhg-uXJdmgJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-07.html+darwin+awards+2007+superior+momentum&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

Barn Demolition - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:oIp1EibmK-gJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-02.html+darwin+awards+2007+barn+demolition&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1/ [209.85.173.104]

Electronic Fireworks -

Fatal a-Traction - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:T86gS6EexbMJ:www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-16.html+darwin+award [209.85.173.104]

Re:Another Year of Offensive Darwin Awards

[Wonko the Sane]

If you allow yourself to really empathize with all the tragedy in the world, then you would collapse emotionally. Humor is a psychological self-defense. You can consider a situation and possible learn something from it without getting too emotionally invested.

Best of the Rest: Dead Reverend's Rubber Fetish

[mojoNYC]

While the nominees this year are, as always, quite deserving, I can't believe this guy didn't make the list:

Dead Reverend's Rubber Fetish
Autopsy: Pastor found in wetsuits after autoerotic mishap

OCTOBER 8--An Alabama minister who died in June of "accidental mechanical asphyxia" was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, and a head mask, according to an autopsy report. Investigators determined that Rev. Gary Aldridge's death was not caused by foul play and that the 51-year-old pastor of Montgomery's Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone in his home at the time he died (while apparently in the midst of some autoerotic undertaking). While the Montgomery Advertiser, which first obtained the autopsy records, reported on Aldridge's two wet suits, the family newspaper chose not to mention what police discovered inside the minister's rubber briefs. Aldridge served as the church's pastor for 16 years. Immediately following his death, church officials issued a press release asking community members to "please refrain from speculation" about what led to Aldridge's demise, adding that, "we will begin the healing process under the strong arm of our Savior, Jesus Christ." (5 pages)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1008072scuba1.html [thesmokinggun.com]

Twas not a Hummer but Bugs that Killed the Tech.

[gnutoo]

Blue screen of death fatality? No, the poor bastard was died because he ran into a Hummer. Those things are so wide he did not have to cross the line to have the accident and no passenger car will survive the impact. If you need to haul things, please buy a pickup truck or a van or a hatchback, not something designed for combat. When you don't need to haul things, please buy a passenger vehicle with properly designed crush zones.

Re:News for nerds

[LrdDimwit]

Some people are stupid. Often times, people will be more afraid of peer pressure -- what people will think -- than actual risk of physical harm. Look at the people who die trying to reenact stunts from Jackass. If mocking people who die in idiotic ways prevents even a very low number of extra people from offing themselves in similar ways, then it has accomplished something.

It still doesn't make us very nice people.

Re:Lone objector

[LordLucless]

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." - George Bernard Shaw

Re:Another Year of Offensive Darwin Awards

[Yehooti]

Those of us who have a shot at living for many more years but have had a hard look at the grim reaper peering back at us recently might have a different perspective than those in their healthy years have. I remember sitting in the waiting room of the oncology department of a major hospital awaiting my turn under the accelerator, about seven years ago. A few of us in that room of gloom and doom made friends because we scheduled our appointment at the same time every week, for many weeks. Some of us joked about our conditions and expected demise. My wife couldn't handle it so stayed outside, but to those of us in there that I got to know, we did quite well I think, thanks to humor.

On the bigger scale, every healthy soul is in the same boat in life. We have to joke about this condition we call life--it's going to kill us one way or another. Though it might be tragic to watch how some people find ways to go out, it is most interesting. With the Darwin Awards, even amusing given an objective perspective.

Re:Best of the Rest: Dead Reverend's Rubber Fetish

[Anonymous Coward]

You can tell they are US Christians, by their immediate response of trying to cover it up -- that is the most stereotypical US Christian response -- shirk responsibility, cover up if possible, whitewash if not. The US Churches are the enemy of moral responsibility, and I hope that God gives them the reward they therefore deserve.

Re:News for nerds

[Lars T.]

There we go. We ridicule people who do dumb things. Most people don't want to be ridiculed, so stories like this make them think twice before doing something stupid.

The sad thing is, it is probably more likely to make them think than the fact that they could easily die doing it.