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You're of course familiar with the True Stella Awards, which debunks the urban legends and runs ...well... TRUE weird lawsuit case reports. Wouldn't it be great if there was a site that took on the stupid urban legend "Darwin Awards" and instead published true case reports? This is that site. Fight the ignorance of urban legends: check out any "Darwin Award" you see here, and get the real reports straight from the official source. From This is True for 1 April 2007 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Wendy NorthcuttChristopher M. Kelly List Price: $13.00 Amazon Price: $3.99 Editorial Review: The first new Darwin Awards book in three years, The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design is the latest addition to one of the most popular and successful humor franchises on bookshelves today. Named after Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, The Darwin Awards pays homage to those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. Most of us know instinctively that the phrase “trust me, light this fuse” is a recipe for disaster. Darwin Award winners do not. Most of us have basic sound judgment that eliminates the need for NO SMOKING signs at gas stations. Darwin Award winners do not. No warning label could have prevented evolution from creeping up on the homeowner who filled his house with natural gas to kill termites, the easy rider who decided to steer his motorcycle with his feet, or the winner who tried to weld a hand grenade onto a chain. Filled with more than one hundred new tales of evolution in action, and complete with essential science and safety discussions, The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design shows that when it comes to common sense, natural selection still has a long way to go.  By: Wendy Northcutt List Price: $4.95 Amazon Price: $4.95 Editorial Review: When it comes to criminals, Darwin wades in the shallow end of the gene pool. Witness the astonishing idiocy of the absent-minded terrorist who opens a letter-bomb returned for insufficient postage, or the thief who steals electrical wire without shutting off the current, or the man who saws off his own leg to collect insurance. This collection of cautionary tales proves that crime does pay . . . a genetic dividend!  By: Wendy Northcutt List Price: $38.00 Amazon Price: $25.08 Editorial Review: This ultimate Darwin Awards collection includes more than 400 hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures, showing how uncommon common sense can be. “Delightfully funny . . . If you are not yet aware of The Darwin Awards, you should probably be pitched out of the breeding population . . . A delicious sermon in support of common sense.” —The Baltimore Sun  By: Wendy Northcutt List Price: $4.95 Amazon Price: $4.95 Editorial Review: In this volume, men meet their inner idiots as they test their testosterone levels by petting sharks, kissing snakes, chasing beer cans, and juggling hand grenades. Only when it’s too late do these would-be Alpha males realize that they’re actually Omega males, providing ample proof of a missing “Why?” chromosome.  By: Wendy Northcutt List Price: $13.00 Amazon Price: $10.40 Editorial Review: Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, The Darwin Awards III includes more than one hundred brand new, hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures. From a sheriff who inadvertently shot himself twice, to the insurance defrauder who amputated his leg with a chainsaw; from a farmer who avoided bee stings by sealing his head in a plastic bag to the man crushed by the branch he just trimmed, The Darwin Awards III proves again that when it comes to stupidity, no species does it like we do. Featuring scientific and safety discussions and filled with illustrations depicting inspiring examples of evolution in action, The Darwin Awards III shows once more how uncommon common sense still is. |
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