How Does One Get A Darwin Award?
The criteria for receiving a Darwin are paraphrased below: – you must remove your genetic material from the human gene pool (usually through death, but sometimes through sterilization) – you must accomplish this feat by doing something so monumentally stupid that even your relatives think you deserved your fate – you must be (in theory) “old enough to know better” — children need not apply – the “removal process” must be be an act of your own making. An example (one that’s probably an urban legend): Joe from rural Tennessee was putting a new TV antenna on the roof of his two-story home. In a (brief) moment of common sense, he decided to rig a safety line. He threw a hundred feet of rope over the ridgeline of the roof, descended the ladder and tied one end to a stationary object, then climbed back up top and tied the other end of his rope at his waist. Only minutes later, Joe’s teenage son dashed from the house, hopped in the family pickup, and sped away to the local C-store for cigare
