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| Announced: 2007 Darwin Awards Winners!!! | |
| The year's most stupid people | |
 by Tahl Raz, January 13, 2008
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An alcoholic who died after giving himself a sherry enema has won the 2007 Darwin Award.
The Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve the gene pool by accidentally removing themselves from it.
Runners-up include:
Eighth Place: In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate while trying to retrieve his car keys.
Seventh Place: A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker -- who often bragged he was 'totally-zoned when he ran' -- accidentally jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily workout.
Sixth Place: While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8-foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Fifth Place: Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
For more good fun, check out darwinawards.com
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Before joining Jewcy Media as President and Editor, Tahl Raz was a Senior Editor at Fortune Small Business. He is the co-author of the national bestseller, Never Eat Alone. He started his career at the Jerusalem Post as the youngest person More... |
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Ismail
Please tell me how reading
Please tell me how reading accounts of the horrible deaths of (mostly) innocent people constitutes "good fun"?
These folks haven't slipped on a banana peel and bruised their asses-they've drowned, suffocated, etc., perishing in the most gruesome ways.
Clever people laughing at the deaths of the dim and distracted-tell me please how this differs from rich people chuckling at the miseries of the poor?
Some shit is not entertainment.
Anonymous
Ismail - relax dude!
Ismail - relax dude! 'Chuckling' at misery is the way many people deal with tragedy. Its a time honored coping mechanism.
Ismail
Sorry, anon, no sale. I
Sorry, anon, no sale. I don't see even a glimmer of "coping with tragedy" in Tahl's post.
Maybe you can give me a reliable method for distinguishing gallows humor from simple insensitivity. Until then, I'll trust my gut.
Anonymous
Mr. Raz didn't invent the
Mr. Raz didn't invent the darwin awards he is just reporting that someone did. I think he may be pointing out the absurdity of society's need to make lists and awards - or maybe he is just an insensitive twat spreading the devils work. Either way, can't see getting my panties bunched up about it Ismail. I reserve my credulous gasps for real misdeeds - so much other stuff to choose from.
Ismail
1. "Mr. Raz didn't invent
1. "Mr. Raz didn't invent the darwin awards he is just reporting that someone did."
Urging his readers to log on to the Darwins for more "good fun" isn't "just reporting".
2. "I think he may be pointing out the absurdity of society's need to make lists and awards - or maybe he is just an insensitive twat spreading the devils work."
An unnecessary antinomy. There's absolutely no evidence for the former proposition, and the latter's way too harsh, even for such a stern and unhumorous moralist as myself.
3. "Either way, can't see getting my panties bunched up about it Ismail."
If it's Ms. Anon, please, dear lady, a little discretion.
If it's Mr. Anon, why do you wear panties?
4. "I reserve my credulous gasps for real misdeeds - so much other stuff to choose from."
Be more generous with your rebukes. Let a thousand reproaches bloom. An admonition shared is a blessing in the eyes of the Lord. And so on.
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