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.

Fatal Cue 2002 Darwin Award Nominee Confirmed by Darwin Darwin says, "This no longer seems like an action that is obviously foolish. There was a long discussion on the event in the Philosophy Forum, involving the weight of the gun, the type of trigger mechanism, etc. I am removing this story from the archive, based on it failing the test of "spectacular stupidity. However, it did promote a healthy discussion in the Forum!" -March 2007 (15 February 2002, Russia) A 26-year-old man tried to enter a bar in Tomilino, near Moscow, carrying a concealed gun. He was stopped by an alert security guard, whereupon the man menaced the guard with the weapon. The guard kicked it out of his hands, and the gun fell onto a billiards table. The security guard asked the players to pass the gun over to him. One of them, our Darwin Award nominee, thought the best way to accomplish this task was to pick it up with his pool cue. The gun slid down the cue stick, and its increasing thickness was sufficient to push the trigger and shoot the 19-year-old in the chest. He died immediately. The owner of the gun said he had intended to surrender the gun to the police that day, and went to the bar in order to summon courage from alcoholic libations. DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2008 Submitted by: George Skoptsov, Vogon Reference: Vecherniaya Moskva

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