17 December 2021

Darwin Award candidates

From reports of deaths that have resulted from attempted pranks and stunts on social media since 2018:

Collided with an oncoming car while playing a game of chicken

Fell sixty stories after doing pull-ups off the edge of a skyscraper

Got shot while blindfolded and pretending to be a hostage in a staged kidnapping

Got shot in the chest at close range while attempting to demonstrate that an encyclopedia was bulletproof

Got shot in the parking lot of a trampoline park after running toward a group of strangers with a butcher knife
Several more examples at the Harper's Magazine source.  Info re the Darwin Awards.

1 comment:

  1. Three out of five of these involve firearms. Res ipsa loquitur.

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