2002 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.

Slick Shit Slip 2002 Darwin Award Nominee -- Unconfirmed by Darwin DISQUALIFIED 31 MARCH 2003 (17 April 2002, Arizona) Had Rodney been eating too many banana peels? This Mohave County Jail inmate defecated on his cell floor, slipped in his own feces, struck his head on the ground, and died. The 49-year-old had been arrested for trespassing the previous week. Astoundingly, a Sheriffs' spokesperson said that “foul play had been ruled out.” Felled by your own feces? I call that foul! DISQUALIFIED 31 MARCH 2003: To defecate in one's jail cell is certainly in poor taste, but it's hardly an error that the average person expects to end in death. To slip and fall in one's own excrement is certainly an error, but hardly an astoundingly stupid one. And so, while this story is amusing, mostly because of its setting and the bathroom humor quotient, it's not fit fodder for a Darwin Award. DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2005 Submitted by: Kari S. McDonald Reference: www.azcentral.com, Associated Press

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