Darwin Awards IV | Sangent - The Daily Ramblings

submitted by Sang on 02.26.2006 in Jokes

There are a group of comedians who trawl the news wires in search of ridiculous deaths to consider for the annual Darwin Award, so named after Charles of that ilk to reflect the fact that no matter how refined evolution becomes, the innate stupidity of the human being remains unsurpassed.

Three contenders, however, managed to fulfil the major requisite of the prize, and their deaths were duly acknowledged for their spectacular pointlessness. There was the 41-year-old Detroit man who in September got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head-first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

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