Charles Darwin is known throughout the world as the creator of the theory of evolution. According to the scientist, her main driving force is natural selection. In the ruthless world of nature, stupid and weak individuals die, while smart and strong survive, leaving offspring to which the mind and strength of their ancestors are inherited. That is how the monkey transformed into a person.
Now people are not as vulnerable as in antiquity, and therefore the process of natural selection is slightly stalled. In the modern world, even a stupid and weak homo sapiens can survive and leave offspring. But there are pronounced nerds that pass away before they even give birth to children. Thus, they help humanity, since without their genes everything will be much better.
The Darwin Prize, the nominees for which appear every year, is just awarded to people who "took their contribution from the human gene pool." Most winners are awarded posthumously, but there are also “unique ones” who received a prize due to depriving themselves of the reproductive organs in the most sophisticated way. In this article we will give the top Darwin Prize.
1. Rectal alcoholic
The first place gets Michael Warner from Texas. He owned a small store and loved to drink. But he introduced alcohol into himself in a non-trivial way, namely through the anus. According to the wife, 58-year-old Michael very often had enemas. It was explained simply - because of a sore throat Warner could not drink alcohol like everyone else.
Somehow they went with his wife to a party that was Michael's last. He asked his wife to pour in him two 1.5-liter bottles of sherry. As a result, the poor fellow simply lost consciousness, and the next morning he was found dead. After a blood test, it turned out that the alcohol content in it was 6 times higher than normal. So Michael topped the Darwin Prize Winners list. Who is in second place?
2. Mole killer
The second place unconditionally gets the 63-year-old German, who was ruined by the desire to exterminate the mole, who settled in his house. The pensioner used everything, but to no avail. Then the German decided to resort to a radical method: he connected the metal rods to the high-voltage line and stuck them in the ground. Despite the security measures taken, the current nevertheless fell on the plot of land where the pensioner stood. In general, he went to the next world with a mole.
3. Deadly dispute
The Darwin Prize and third place in the top go to two friends from the city of Valparaiso. They decided to play the argument "cowardly." The essence of the game was as follows: whoever does not go off the rail longer before the train arriving, he won. Midnight was chosen as the time of the argument. It all ended in tragedy: the victorious Patrick Stiff was knocked to death. The driver did not even slow down, because he did not notice the debaters.
4. Demolition of the barn
Darwin Prize and fourth place top for a resident of Virginia who decided to demolish an old barn. He started a chainsaw and began dismantling the structure. Or out of ignorance, or greatly carried away, the poor man sawed the load-bearing beams. As a result, the whole structure fell on a hard worker.
5. For two hares
Fifth place at the 29-year-old Oscar - a teacher of computer literacy. The Darwin Award went to an American for performing two incompatible things: driving a car and typing on a laptop. At high speed, he flew into the oncoming lane and crashed into a Hummer. The teacher died on the spot, and the passengers of the SUV received only a few bruises.
6. Liquid nitrogen
Sixth place in our compatriot, who decided to hit his girlfriend. On the Internet, he watched a video about how a man dipped his hand in nitrogen and pulled it out unscathed. It is a pity that he did not fully study all the features of the experiment. The man in the video wetted his hand with water, which became a barrier between the skin and nitrogen. Therefore, she remained unharmed. The Russian should watch the video more carefully. But he did not do this, but got a canister with liquid nitrogen and decided to repeat the experiment in front of his lover, with his hand in the container. Our grief hero did not last long. The pain became unbearable, and he pulled out his hand, but at the same time he touched the canister and knocked over its contents on his crotch. Needless to say, everything was frozen there …
7. Phone gun
Darwin Prize (the most ridiculous deaths) and seventh place at 47-year-old Charles Barger. At night, he woke up from a phone call. Trying to find the pipe in awake, Barger took the revolver, brought it to his ear and pulled the trigger.
8. Fell from the roof and exploded on the toilet
Eighth place in a resident of Los Angeles, who was engaged in the repair of the roof of his house. Before climbing to it, he took precautions and tied a safety rope. The second end of his prudent American tied to the bumper of his car, standing in the yard. The only thing he did not do was not warn his wife. While her husband was repairing the roof, she gathered for shopping, got behind the wheel and drove off. Torn from the roof, the poor fellow made her a trip to the first store.
Surgeons saved his life, but the story did not end there. In honor of her husband’s discharge from the hospital, her husband decided to have a party. The arrival of smoking guests was expected, so she began to refuel lighters with gasoline over the toilet. A lot of fuel spilled into it. After that, my husband went into the toilet and sat comfortably with the newspaper, lighting a cigarette. When he finished, he out of habit threw a cigarette butt into the toilet. From the explosion, the spouse received burns incompatible with life. In general, the Darwin Prize, the nominees for which are gathered from all over the world, went to the poor fellow deservedly.
9. Sorted with alcohol
In ninth place, a decently drunk man who walked home and received a blow to the head. Despite the broken skull, he got up and continued on his way. A quarter later, a motorcyclist hit him, breaking his wretched hand. Nevertheless, he reached the house, but stumbled on the porch, fell, broke both legs. In the morning his wife found him dead. The medical expert’s report read: “The cause of death was alcohol poisoning.”
10. Deadly Feather
Darwin Prize and tenth place for a woman walking in the mountains. She saw a small feather on the ground and wanted to raise it, but the wind blew, and it was at the fence. Instead of moving on, the unfortunate woman rushed to catch him and fell from a height of 300 meters. She died from a traumatic brain injury the next day.
11. Safety glass
The eleventh place at the Canadian Harry Hoy. He was one of the best lawyers in Toronto. Among his entertainment was a demonstration of the strength of the windows in the office. This he scared visitors and colleagues. To check, Harry ran up and threw himself on the glass. 24th attempt of a lawyer was successful. He broke through the glass and fell out of the window of a skyscraper.
