Darwin Award Contenders

[Tyria]

Have you ever been in a situation that screamed 'bad idea' to you? Have you known anyone who does not learn from their mistakes and continues to make the same ones over and over and over again? Do you sometimes wonder why a particular person has managed to survive as long as they have?

Welcome to a thread about Darwin Awards. A Darwin Award is given out to those who remove themselves from the gene pool by doing something incredibly stupid or against common sense (by either death or their ability to reproduce is... lost).

I have found a contender who I shall dub Leopard Ranger. I rather enjoyed the Leopard's response to the ranger

Post any stories that you find (either personal, that you have heard, through a paper, or that you come across). Perhaps we will have a vote eventually on who should win the INTP Forum's Best Picks of Darwin Awards.

YouTube- how not to release a leopard

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

tut tut tut...watching QI again......Jimmy Carr told you?

i don't know, i look back regularly at old posts and realise how much stupider i was a couple of weeks ago.

maybe look to the trolls for idiocy

 

[saffyangelis]

tut tut tut...watching QI again..

I love QI! I never remember to watch it though =/

But on topic, there's this one girl at school who I think is just a walking Darwin award waiting to happen. I told her that once and she was annoyed at me, then she forgot about it as she'd walked into a bookshelf. She has just about zero common sense, and is soooo gullible it's unreal.

 

[snowqueen]

My favourite actual Darwin award was the man who tied balloons to his chair and then cut himself loose and floated up into a flightpath.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

This may not count, but it's still funny.

I was involved in this paintball match were my team (about 8 people) had to "bomb" (place a barrel against) some fortifications about 15m up a hill, the catch is the enemy team is inside the fortifications and are firing out. Now before the game began we were all standing around in a clearing at the bottom of this hill in full view of the fortifications and the game manager specifically said "Once I blow this whistle the game will start". Having realised what was going to happen next I dived for cover behind a tree, only to be called an idiot by a couple of my team mates, one says "oh, as if he's going to start the game right now".

On cue the whistle is blown and round one ends about two seconds after it began.
So who is the idiot now?
(2 people are required to transport bomb, thus the game ended after my team died)

 

[Tyria]

Great story Cog

Well, I have several myself... one of them is from college. So I was setting things up in my room (I lived alone that year), and I was trying to set up was a few lamps that I brought along. The only light (aside from the windows of course) came from an eye piercing, retina blinding bright monstrosity in the center of the room. Even covering it up a bit, the light could still make my head swim (I can count on one hand how many times I turned that thing on).

The outlets to put the plugs in were not the greatest, but I still decided to plug it in and try out a new lamp I had brought up. (note: I was doing this after I got out of the shower, so I wasn't completely dry). Anyway, I go to plug it in and sure enough I realize too late that this is a bad idea.

As I plug it in, I feel a nice burning sensation of pain and electricity surge through the water into my hand. My mind starts to blank, and I just remember holding onto the cord for about 5 seconds. After I dropped it, I stood there for a few minutes and wasn't sure exactly what had happened, but guessed correctly.

I'm not sure if the electricity did something, but for some reason I thought it was a good idea at the time to try to plug it back in again. Being electrocuted once was apparently not enough for my brain to register that this was a very bad idea. I can say with certainty that it was not one of the 'brightest' moments of my life.

I was greeted by the same experience, and when I dropped the cord my hand started to throb and go a little numb. So I sat down and stopped trying to test the fates for the night; I eventually plugged the lamp in when I wasn't covered in water (which is apparently a great medium for electricty to travel through).

I am still suprised to this day that I did not win a Darwin Award for this, but I did find out that day what it feels like to be electrocuted. I have since learned that water, electricity, and lamps are not a good mix.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

my favourite one is probably the guy who pissed from a high altitude, the streak of piss froze up before hitting the ground and impaled a mountain walker

the mountain walker died....

(i too love QI)