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2014 Darwin Award: Selfie With Elephant
Two men in Kenya were capturing selfies with a wild elephant when they were trampled to death by the irate pachyderm who proceeded to bury the corpses. The two men were actually touching the elephant's face
Relevance: 100% |
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2010 Darwin Award: Textbook Double Double Darwin
Who would park the car on a busy freeway, in the slow lane, in heavy fog, for a quickie? These things happen on the 'Via Dutra', the major freeway between Rio de Janiero
Relevance: 95.9% |
5.7 KB |
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2009 Darwin Award WINNER: Crushing Debt
2009 WINNER. Belgium | The city of Dinant is the backdrop for this rare Double Darwin Award. Two bankrobbers attempting to make a sizeable withdrawal from an ATM...
Relevance: 93.2% |
6.1 KB |
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2008 At-Risk Survivor: Putting the Pain in Propane
Florida | Responding to a request to extinguish a routine trash fire, the Lieutenant said, 'You gotta see this.' An intoxicated group of men had decided that throwing paint cans into their 55-gallon drum fire was fun, but not fun enough...
Relevance: 91.8% |
5.9 KB |
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2009 Darwin Award: Double Parking
Philippines | This small island nation has already produced several illustrious winners. Now, they offer up that rare oddity, the Double Darwin Award. We begin with two businessmen who own adjacent restaurants...
Relevance: 91.8% |
6 KB |
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2009 At-Risk Survivor: Popsicle
In the mid-eighties my father sailed on the research ship Regina Maris to study whale populations in Greenland. One night he noticed there were a lot of icebergs floating by the boat. Icebergs! After drinking
Relevance: 90.5% |
6.3 KB |
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2014 Darwin Award: Double Darwin! Sports Training
Two apparently intoxicated men dared each other to test their courage against an intercity train at a Rotterdam train station. At 1800 hours on a Sunday night, the station was crowded with more than 300 sports fans
Relevance: 89.1% |
6.3 KB |
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2014 Darwin Award: La Petite Mort
Humans who aspire to high levels of desire may join the 'mile-high club' yet our dreams of sex in high places also have couples eyeing more accessible heights such as rooftops and romantic balconies. Balcony balls ar
Relevance: 87.8% |
6.4 KB |
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2007 Darwin Award: Stop. Look. Listen.
Florida | A woman wins two concert tickets from a local radio station. The Dave Matthews Band, live! She can't believe her luck. She invites her friend to join her, but they are in for more than a concert experience...
Relevance: 85.1% |
7 KB |
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2006 Darwin Award: A Slow Burn
Ohio | Insurance fraud is harder than it looks. Just ask Musa and his son Essa, who hired an arsonist to burn down their Steak Thyme Subs shop...
Relevance: 83.7% |
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