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1999 Honorable Mentions
| Although the stupidity displayed in the following tales stops short of the ultimate sacrifice, we salute the spirit and innovation shown in these misadventures. |
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Overkill II
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Live Version of Urban Legend Overkill (28 July 1999, Madrid) A Spanish man made an unsuccessful bid for a Darwin Award on Wednesday. He was recovering in hospital after two failed suicide attempts. The despondent 38-year-old man leapt from his third-floor apartment, but failed to even knock himself out when he hit the ground. The unhappy man staggered back into his apartment and cut his throat, but police broke down the door and took him to hospital in the town of Merida, capital of the western Extremadura region. His wound was stitched up and he was released with counselling. |
Submitter Gail LaMarche chortles, "This is a compelling reason for an E.R. nurse to write the book, Suicide: How To Get It Right The First Time. Guess what I do for a living?!" We challenge Gail LaMarche to write that book! Mark Whybird adds, "Something like that has been available on the internet for many years. Check out alt.suicide.holiday. |
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Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection
Hardback. 240 pages. Autographed.$15 A fresh collection of magnificent misadventures! Lust, Vanity, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, and Wrath extract an evolutionary toll on the wicked. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety video. Witness the man who becomes a victim of his own strange passion for jumping into rivers. Heed the honest bricklayer who loses a battle of wits with 300 pounds of tools. This book includes more History of the Awards, Gordon's Law, and 10 discussions of evolution, including speciation and the role of verbal memes in civilization. Autographed by Author! |
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