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THE Darwin Awards

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:

The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design
by Wendy Northcutt, Christopher M. Kelly
Amazon Price: $10.40
Customer Review: While I did enjoy the opening essays detailing the history of the Darwin Awards, the essays written at the beginning of each chapter just served, for the most part, to bore me. It was, however, interesting to learn how these awards are submitted and...
 
The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool
by Wendy Northcutt
Amazon Price: $5.20
Customer Review: I purchased this selection because I was intrigued with the cover: title, drawing and design. I imagined and expected a humorous introspective discussion, narrative or philisophical premise on the state of humanity. Instead, the text was quite lik...
 
The Darwin Awards: Felonious Failures
by Wendy Northcutt
Amazon Price: $4.95
Customer Review: I bought this as a gift, and failed to notice that it was a miniature book! It was plainly written in the details, I just didn't pay enough attention. The book itself is hilarious. A good addition to the Darwin Awards collection.
 
The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awar...
by Peter Sis
Amazon Price: $12.24
Customer Review: Purchased this book for my four year old granddaughter. When we started to read it she announced that she thought it was too old for her. Then we got to the pages of drawings and she was completely fascinated.

This is a children's bo...
 
The Darwin Awards Boxed Set (1-3)
by Wendy Northcutt
Amazon Price: $25.08
Customer Review: Die stupidly (& funny) or lose your reproductive organs & you win the award & join the club thus saving the world from your stupid genes. But the book then goes astray. Creating honorable mentions that are indeed funny but the victims live to breed ...
 

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