The Darwin Awards: A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises Honoring those who improve the species...by accidentally removing themselves from it!
Säännöt:
Reproduction - Out of the gene pool: dead or sterile.
Excellence - Astounding misapplication of judgment.
Self-Selection - Cause one's own demise.
Maturity - Capable of sound judgment.
Veracity - The event must be true.
1991 Honorable Mention:
Scrotum Self-Repair
An unmarried loner, he usually didn't leave the machine shop at lunchtime with his co-workers. Finding himself alone, he had begun the regular practice of masturbating by holding his penis against the canvas drive-belt of a large floor-based piece of running machinery. One day, as he approached orgasm, he lost his concentration and leaned too close to the belt. When his scrotum suddenly became caught between the pulley-wheel and the drive-belt, he was thrown into the air and landed a few feet away. Unaware that he had lost his left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound closed and resumed work.
Life is complex, it has real and imaginary parts.