2009 Darwin Awards

Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.

Crushing Debt 2009 Darwin Award WINNER Confirmed True by Darwin Double Darwin! (26 September 2009, Belgium) The city of Dinant is the backdrop for this rare Double Darwin Award. Two bankrobbers attempting to make a sizeable withdrawal from an ATM died when they overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion. The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in. Nobody else was in the building at the time of the attack. Robber One was rushed to the hospital with severe head trauma; he died shortly after arrival. Investigators initially assumed that his accomplice had managed a getaway, but the second bungler's body was excavated from the debris twelve hours later. Would-be Robbers One and Two weren't exactly impoverished--their getaway car was a BMW. READER COMMENTS: "Dynamite: not for everything." "Less is certainly more." "Debit cards are safer." "They really blew it..." "Extreme Self Banking" MEDIA REFERENCES The Incident on Belgian TV!! Also mentions the Darwin Awards. Awful? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Great? Hate it! Love it! Share DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2012 Submitted by: Nikko Yaginuma, Roger, Bart Vanhoorne Reference: Le Soir www.lesoir.be, De Standaard www.standaard.be, http://deredactie.be, http://www.nu.nl, www.demorgen.be

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