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1988 Darwin Award: Death of Dracula
A college student dressed up as Dracula for Halloween. For the finishing touch, he put a pine board down the front of his shirt, so he could stick a knife into the board and pretend he was transfixed with killing stake.
Relevance: 100% |
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2006 Darwin Award: Rock Out
Singapore | Picture a college dorm room. Dirty laundry, sexy posters, food wrappers, textbooks, and in the middle of it all, a 16-year-old male rocking out to loud music. A typical student, a typical day...
Relevance: 94.3% |
5.9 KB |
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2008 Darwin Award: One Foot In The Pool...
Indonesia | Charles had just completed his studies at King William's College, and his dreams were ambitious. He planned retire by the age of 30. Unfortunately for Charles, his expensive education omitted an important lesson from the curriculum...
Relevance: 94.3% |
6.3 KB |
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2007 Darwin Award: The Alchemist
Russia | As a child, Sergei promised his grandmother,'I will establish for you the elixir of immortality!' As an adult, we find Sergei sitting in a classroom and licking cyanide off his palm...
Relevance: 92.9% |
6.4 KB |
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2007 Personal Account: Remember The Hindenburg
Remember the time the science teacher dropped a bit of sodium into a bowl of water? The element skips about, fizzing as it burns. Well, for one teacher, this tidy little demonstration didn't go exactly to plan...
Relevance: 91.5% |
6.6 KB |
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2008 Darwin Award: Rub the Mint
Romania | In Communist Romania, it was mandatory to boost the economy by 'active participation.' Each autumn we worked in agriculture, harvesting fruits and vegetables, and for three weeks per year we were required to train in a factory...
Relevance: 87.3% |
7.3 KB |
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2002 Personal Account: Chemistry Lesson
I am a high school science teacher in Birmingham. I usually teach physics, but due to teacher shortages, I ended up teaching chemistry a few years ago. As you all know, chemistry can be fun, especially when you get on
Relevance: 85.9% |
7.5 KB |
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2001 Personal Account: Real Science
A friend of mine attended a private school in Nashville, and one of his chemistry teachers may well have become a Darwin winner by now. She told the class one day that salt is made in factories, to the disbelief of most o
Relevance: 80.2% |
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Hardback. 240 pages. Autographed.