THE DARWIN AWARDS
If you are unfamiliar with the Darwin Awards you can go here and spend some fruitful time learning the many ways that humans have of removing themselves from the gene pool.
www.darwinawards.com
Here is an example:
Oil Tank Trampoline
2007 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
(24 June 2007, Colorado) If you get "Footloose" and cut the rug on an oil tank, be careful not to light a cigarette or bong of weed, else you may soon be climbing the proverbial "Stairway to Heaven".
After smoking marijuana and liquoring themselves up at a popular party spot in Routt National Forest, the teens decided that it would be fun to leap and cavort upon a mostly-empty oil tank.
Mostly empty...
"There were several ignitions sources," according to the sheriff. Teenagers were smoking, and there was a bonfire nearby. The energetic gyrations of the dancers caused fumes to leak from the relief valve, and an ignition source sparked a "flashdance" as the crude oil storage tank exploded, hurling two teens 150 yards to their deaths.
The deceased were identified as Samuel and Christopher, 17 and 19.
To Review the Rules:
1. Reproduction:
At 17 and 19, they weren't married, nor had they reproduced, nor can they now reproduce.
2. Excellence:
They thought it was wise to jump around on an oil tank containing 160 barrels of crude oil, while stoned out of their gourds.
3. Self Selection:
Stoned insensible, drunker than the town drunk, and dancing on a oil tank exuding flammable vapors, with a campfire nearby.
4. Maturity:
At 17 and 19, both are over the minimum age of 16.
5. Veracity: MSNBC.com and AP.
