What Constitutes a Darwin Award?
The Darwin Award is not some low-class, tasteless award that turns real tragedy into jokes and insults those who have met their death prematurely. These awards are all about making an example of those who did really, really stupid things and consequently got themselves killed – probably in the hopes that the public will learn from these mistakes and avoid it themselves. Thus, the primary prerequisite for a Darwin nominee is stupidity. Getting killed because you grew tomatoes on an electric fence you built yourself, and then tried picking them, deserves a Darwin. Death caused by a drunk driver is not a Darwin candidate – it is a tragedy. Fatally bad (or absence of) common sense and judgment are what really makes an ideal Darwin candidate. The five crucial criteria for the selection of Darwin Awards winners are: Reproduction A person who manages to sire offspring before he removes his genes for incompetence from the human gene pool, or one who manages to survive his stupidity, is of no u
