Winners and nominees of the Darwin Award

A small selection from several sources:
(I decided to share the ones that I liked the most).

1. The Darwin Awards. August, 2014.
Few strawberries at night from Darwin Committee. Saudi Sheikh fell victim to the love of animals. Literally. According to website beiruting.com , Sheikh took off his pants, and left them in the SUV and tried to rape a donkey. That's only animal able to stand up for themselves and kicked him four times, please hooves in the chest and face. The man died of his injuries, his body was found the next day ...

2. The 16-year-old, dropped in a small pond of your smartphone, tried to drain the pond down the toilet to save your gadget.
Yes, you heard right - he was trying to pull the toilet a small lake. According to Metro, a teenager with friends fishing from a boat, and accidentally dropped overboard smartphone. In a panic, the boy turned to a nearby fishing club to borrow them diving suit, but he refused it. And then we came up with fool "brilliant" plan - to drain the lake and easy to explore the bottom bared. Late at night he returned to the beach with two powerful electric pumps. One end of the hose, he dropped into a pond, and the other in the toilet ....
- I thought that merge pumps enough water so that I could find my phone, - he explained his idea teenager. Fool decided that everything will go unnoticed, but pumped sewage and dirty water flooded the local car park. The owner of the club called the police.
Now the parents of the student will have to pay a fine of 4,000 euros for the damaged toilet and spent energy. Well, the curtain: fool trying to pump water from a small lake, but it does not take into account the fact that it is constantly replenished from a larger body of water nearby. Apparently the school had no problems about the pool pipes "A" and "B» ...

3 February, 2014, Irkutsk, Russia Do you like to sing in the shower? A talk on the phone while taking a bath? Our next nominee duraleya enough that chatting on a cell phone during water treatment, so more and at the same time charging the smartphone! The wife of 28-year old boy was worried when he took too long to come out of the bathroom. He looked inside and found him dead, lying in a bathtub full of water. How do I find forensic experts arrived, died of electric shock. The fact that our idiot taking a bath, dropped into the water cell phone connected to a wall outlet. By the way, this application is attached to the prize, and 26-year-old Sibirskoye, which in December 2013 decided to take a bath with a laptop connected to the outlet.

4. October 2013. China
26-year-old Yang Hu has worked all his life in a sewing factory. He worked from sunrise to sunset, so the time to get acquainted with the girls he did not have. He had doubted that ever had a chance to meet a woman.
Depression swept guy so much that at the end of October, he returned once again to work, grabbed a knife and cut off his penis .... "All the same, you are of no use!" - Thought the guy sincerely hope that it will free him from the constant thoughts about women.
When it was done, Yang Hu suddenly changed his mind and ran to the hospital. Do you think he called a "fast" or ask friends to take him? No! He went to the hospital for ... bike!
When the fool came in the emergency department of the hospital and asked to sew his penis back, suddenly found that he had forgotten to cut off the flesh of the house. Doctors just threw up his hands - say, we can not do anything, bring your penis!
When Yang Hu went home and came back with the remnants of his manhood, doctors again threw up his hands - the penis remained without blood for too long and can not be sewn back!

5. March, 2013. Zimbabwe
As is known, to become the winner of Darwin could only those who not only lost his life because of his stupidity, but did not have time to have offspring. A loving couple meet these requirements fully. Two young men have decided to have sex ... in the wildlife park.
Unlike conventional zoos predatory animals here do not sit in cages and freely roam the grounds. Security? Yes, our idiots think about it - had sex in a condom. In addition to rubber products to them was nothing.
Leo noticed suspicious stirring in the bushes, he came over and attacked lovers. A woman is not lucky - she was on top. But her boyfriend managed to escape.
When he arrived some time later with the officers of the park to the aid of her friend from her had little left.

6. February, 2013. US
Firmly got 30-year-old American, who has decided to have sex with her boyfriend in the car. On the move.
Her boyfriend at some point (we are with you know what the time - approx.'s) Could not hold the steering wheel and lost control of the car. The car veered off the road and swept through the abandoned building.
The woman was hospitalized, but her boyfriend escaped with only slight shock.

7. September 2013. Ukraine
20-year-old boy from a small Ukrainian town was walking with his girlfriend in the woods. A little dog ran ahead on occasion. What can chat love? Yes, anything. History is silent, why suddenly emerged in a conversation topic ... suicide. Indeed, what could be more romantic, huh?
As later explained by the girl at the police station, our "hero" began to assure her that he now can hang, and then just untie knot in the neck and ... come to life right before her eyes. Seeing his beloved doubt - fool took a dog leash, climbed a tree and wound their neck, jumped down from the branch.
She waited for some time, but its one that is not in a hurry to "come alive". Only then she called the police and tried to help their own favorite. But, as you know, in vain.
Experts from law enforcement officials found no signs of violent death, and Darwin committee, getting the story to him for consideration, would have revealed no signs of brain and duraleya.

8. September 2013. Amur Region
18-year-old village boy so badly wanted to have his car that was on what popontovatsya to local beauties, that he decided to turn the deal of the century - to exchange drugs for the car.
Our fool easily found in the village site that planted marijuana. When the time came, he gathered the harvest. work - neither more nor less - 15 bags! Then our hero began to look for a buyer. Hearing about the idiot came to the police and they decided to make test purchases.
The funny thing is that the would-be businessman ... concluded a contract of sale and the exchange of machines for drugs. Apparently, he considered himself a very clever man, to let someone take hold of deceit 71 kilograms of marijuana.
When the police opened himself after signing the contract, which in the future will play a key role in the court amurchanin he was dumbfounded. He did not expect such an outcome of the transaction and had no resistance.
It later emerged that fool went on the offense while on probation for theft.

9. August 2013. Komi
It happened in the village of Parcheg.
A resident of Syktyvkar the Rocker dismantled the pavement of 82 concrete slabs and plunged into three truck. After that he tried to "escape" if that word applies to overloaded vehicles.
At the next traffic police checkpoint stopped the would-be robbers: cargo documents, of course, was not there. When police began to find out - where, it initially did not believe his ears. And the place to go on a saw - stole the road. All! From the village to the river! The cost of the stolen amounted to more than 200 thousand rubles.
This story is so incredible that even a hit on American humor sites. The local trolls rushed to exercise their wits.
- No, you just imagine an ad on Ebay, - says one of the wits. - "Buy the road. Removal of surface transport is not available due to the lack of roads! »
By the way, the Russians do not cease to surprise foreigners. I remember that there was another wise guy who stole the "bridge." Duraleya issued track, which left a loaded machine - she led police straight to his home.

10. December, 2014. Poland
A man dressed as Gandalf jumped onto the rails with his staff in his hand. With a cry of "You shall not pass!" He stopped rushing tram at him.
Magician advised "Balrog" get out of the electric into the darkness, and then gave the signal hiding in the bushes "The Hobbit" and "dwarfs" that ran on tracks, imitating a scene from "Lord of the Rings».

11. January 2014. Australia
27-year-old Sean Harrington jumped into the water, placed it on his head ... bird cage! It reminded how children play hide and seek - they believe that if to hide his head so that he can not see anyone, then you hid the whole. The shark was not long to wait, and swam to the fool. Fortunately for him, whether predator was fed, whether she was allergic to idiots, but it is not bitten him anything.
Twin brother Sean called him to the cell used as a weapon against the sharks and quickly climbed aboard. But first, Sean "saved" birdcage 50 "bucks", but then got out himself. He has already said that never in my life will not repeat this trick.

12. Apr, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria
Recently, the Austrian police have caught the "most stupid criminal."
Although, to be accurate, no one catch - he came to the police station to ask the law enforcement officers, not whether he was a wanted man.
Police initially determined that 59-year-old German play them, it is obvious also that any person who has committed a crime, would not voluntarily come to him and ask such questions. But we fool was adamant, so law enforcement officers have agreed to break the identity of a strange visitor to their bases criminals. Check not take a lot of time. A minute later the computer gave that man really was wanted. He was suspected in four cases of fraud and embezzlement. Vienna court issued a warrant for his arrest, only the police could not find him.
Idiot arrested immediately and sent to jail to wait for trial and sentencing.

For breakfast:

13. 1999. Bonn, Germany
Swallowers of swords from Bonn died after he swallowed automatic umbrella and accidentally pressed the button that opened it.

14. 1999, Tehran, Iran
In the vicinity of Tehran Iranian hunter was killed - he was shot by a snake from his own gun. Another hunter told me that late (his name was Ali) tried to capture the snake alive and held her head to the ground with a rifle butt. However, a snake wrapped around the butt and tail pulled the trigger. The bullet hit Ali in the head.

15. 1993 US
Nightmare diet and a room without ventilation caused the death of the poor man who poisoned their own "exhaust».
His body had no external signs of poisoning, but an autopsy revealed a huge amount of methane in the body. Late ate mostly beans and cabbage - just what you need. Apparently, the guy just suffocated in his sleep, it is very poisonous bunch of gas hung over his bed.
If he slept in the open air, or at least opened the window, the consequences would not be so grim. And so ... the room was practically is hermetically sealed. Himself deceased was quite a big man, so to arrange a "gas attack" of such a scale for it was a doddle.
Of which was the rescue team to rescue three sick, and one landed in the hospital.

16. 1995 US
During crawling your site Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of steaming metal lying at the foot of a cliff at the turn of the road. It was like a plane crash, but looking more closely, they realized that this is a car brand that was impossible to determine. In the laboratory, we examined the remains and find out what happened.
It turned out that the former cerzhant Air Force procured a solid-fuel missile, used in aviation. With the help of heavy bombers and transport planes can take off from a short runway. He came on his Chevrolet Impala in the desert, where he found a long, straight stretch of road. He then attached to the rocket car, slightly overclocked and set fire to it. According to estimates, it was dispersed to approximately 250 - 300 miles per hour (350-420km / h), when the road began to turn ...., brake completely burned while trying to stop the car.
Most of the remains of the driver could not identify, although there were found small pieces of bone, teeth, as well as on the steering wheel were found finger bones and nails.

Source: d-awards.ru
Source: ethology.ru