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Darwin Awards Thread

Thermal said:
I'm not sure apparent desperate suicides are Darwin laughs.
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Smells more like a meth-fuelled "Hell yeah, I got this" than suicide, taking into account he was running from the cops in the first place.

But suicide can be funny.

Michael Hutchence, for instance. Was it suicide, or was he auto-asphyxiating for sexual purposes? If it's the latter - as many people who knew him claim - it's downright hysterical.

So horny you kill yourself getting off? Almost the ultimate Darwin. No doubt where that gene pool's going.

In the dirt.

If you don't believe death can be funny, you should look up Monty Python some time.
 
The Atheist said:
Smells more like a meth-fuelled "Hell yeah, I got this" than suicide, taking into account he was running from the cops in the first place.

But suicide can be funny.

Michael Hutchence, for instance. Was it suicide, or was he auto-asphyxiating for sexual purposes? If it's the latter - as many people who knew him claim - it's downright hysterical.

So horny you kill yourself getting off? Almost the ultimate Darwin. No doubt where that gene pool's going.

In the dirt.

If you don't believe death can be funny, you should look up Monty Python some time.
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Not sure what you're reading, here...

Death can certainly be funny. It's the whole point of the Darwins. What I'm saying is that this one in particular does not seem funny.

Guy drives car off cliff at 100mph and dies on landing. Nothing really funny/Darwinny in that.

Re: Hutchence, was that the guy from INXS? If so, not really Darwin material either. I gather that some people get their rocks off poking at the Reaper a bit. I've done my share. Shame when He pokes back, but not what the Darwins are about, as I get them.
 
The Atheist said:
Thermal said:
I'm not sure apparent desperate suicides are Darwin laughs.
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Smells more like a meth-fuelled "Hell yeah, I got this" than suicide, taking into account he was running from the cops in the first place.
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Being familiar with the area and its substance abusing residents, I tend to think The Atheist's assessment is likely correct and he launched over the San Joaquin as a **** the police statement. Failing that, apparently he was unfamiliar with the area and failed to reduce speed at the Dickenson & Herndon transition and went airborne.

Funny either way. Darwin recommended.
 
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AJM8125 said:
Being familiar with the area and its substance abusing residents, I tend to think The Atheist's assessment is likely correct and he launched over the San Joaquin as a **** the police statement. Failing that, apparently he was unfamiliar with the area and failed to reduce speed at the Dickenson & Herndon transition and went airborne.

Funny either way. Darwin recommended.
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I don't doubt that he may have been lit, or desperately trying to outrun the law and chose poorly. Just strikes me as more sad than funny.
 
Thermal said:
I don't doubt that he may have been lit, or desperately trying to outrun the law and chose poorly. Just strikes me as more sad than funny.
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Totally understand. I'm looking at from a local yokel's perspective. There are literally hundreds of miles of river and levee roads in the area that can be tricky at times - roads suddenly go from pavement to gravel or dirt without notice, patches of thick tule fog come out of nowhere, etc. Most locals understand and abide by the posted speed limits. Knowing this, I'm picturing a bunch of people fishing on the riverbank, nothing but pickup trucks, Igloo coolers and blaring country music with an airborne Toyota in the background.

"Yep, there goes another one Bob..."
 
AJM8125 said:
Totally understand. I'm looking at from a local yokel's perspective. There are literally hundreds of miles of river and levee roads in the area that can be tricky at times - roads suddenly go from pavement to gravel or dirt without notice, patches of thick tule fog come out of nowhere, etc. Most locals understand and abide by the posted speed limits. Knowing this, I'm picturing a bunch of people fishing on the riverbank, nothing but pickup trucks, Igloo coolers and blaring country music with an airborne Toyota in the background.

"Yep, there goes another one Bob..."
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Ok, I can see the humor there. If there was a god, the guy would have been driving an orange Dodge Charger.
 
Dr. Keith said:
I saw something similar live. But the car he hit was a smaller sports car, so he slid/walked down the windshield and stepped off the hood of the car onto the pavement as the car stopped. Really quite amazing that he lived, and still he looked pissed off.
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I've been looking for a helmet-cam video I saw on reddit a while back, where a biker was hit by a car in low speed city traffic, and he ended up standing on the hood. Then, from his perspective of course, he stamps on the windshield and shatters it.
 
I don't think anyone proposed that death itself is funny. Otherwise we'd be pissing ourselves laughing at an ISIS beheading or such.

But I don't think it automatically makes everything around it unfunny. I mean, take the Dave Allen joke about a wake in Ireland:

A very important part of the Irish way of life is death. See if anybody else anywhere else in the world dies that’s the end of it. They’re dead. But in Ireland when somebody dies we lay them out and watch them for a couple of days.

It’s called a wake. And it’s great. It’s a party, a sendoff. The fella is laid out on the table and there are drinking and dancing and all the food you can eat and all of your friends come from all over the place and they all stand around the wake table looking at you with a glass in their hands looking at you and they say, “Here’s to your health.”

The terrible thing about dying over in Ireland is you miss your own wake. It’s the best day of your life. You’ve paid for everything and you can’t join in. Mind you, if you did you’d be drinking on your own.​

Does it make anyone want to go, "OMG, there's a dead guy there, how can you joke about it, you monster?" No? Well, then I also don't think death makes the Darwins unfunny.

Mind you, as I was saying, I never found them as hilarious as some people seem to. But if an idiot doing something remarkably stupid is funny (and it sometimes is, sometimes isn't), then I don't think a death makes the difference between it being funny or unfunny either.
 
rjh01 said:
Is a person eligible if he already has had kids or never would have kids? The person was 58 years old.
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I think he qualifies. While the damage done by him producing some offsprings already is hard to rectify, there is at least a guarantee it won't extend any further. This guarantee never exists as long as they are alive, no matter their age.
 
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Hold the phone, close the entries. I think we have just found the Darwin Award winner for 2020

https://www.sbsun.com/2020/02/22/da...s-reported-dead-in-rocket-crash-near-barstow/

This the Flat Earther who built a steam powered rocket so that he could launch himself up to the Kármán line to prove the earth was flat.

Many here predicted that this was always going to end badly and it has.


ETA: conspiracy theory that NASA MiB's sabotaged the parachute in 3....2....1....
 
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