Rare double Darwin announced for 2009

[depakid]

The people who compile the annual Darwin Awards say 2009 was a busy year for stupidity, and last week awarded the year's top prize for fatal poor judgment. For the uninitiated, the Darwin Awards are named in honour of Charles Darwin, father of evolution, to "commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it", its organisers say. It's usually posthumous.

The winner for 2009 was a rare Double Darwin, says Wendy Northcutt of the Darwin Awards, and is awarded for a crime gone awry in Belgium. On September 26, a pair of would-be thieves hatched a plan to withdraw cash from an ATM machine by using dynamite.

"They overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion," the citation notes dryly. "The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in." Rescue workers rushed one bomb burglar to the hospital, where he died on arrival.

They assumed the second had got away until they found his body in the rubble hours later. No one else was in the building at the time of the blast.

More: http://www.smh.com.au/world/deadly-dumb-and-dumber-win-award-20100104-lp3o.html

[dflprincess]

1. As the Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy

"Think you used enough dynamite there?"

[ddeclue]

4. better yet: "Who ARE these people?"

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

9. "Come on out Woodcock. You don't want to get yourself blown up again now, do you?"

[pissedoff01]

2. First nominee for 2010:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/03/AR2010010300326.html

MESA, Ariz. -- Police say a teenage girl accidentally ran over and killed her 17-year-old brother as the two played around in an Arizona shopping mall parking lot.

Mesa Police spokesman Ed Wessing on Sunday identified the brother as Dwight J. Brock Jr. and his sister as 16-year-old Nicole M. Brock, both residents of Mesa.

Wessing says the sister had dropped off her brother at Superstition Springs Mall Saturday evening. And then they started playing around, with the brother jumping in front of the car and the sister slamming on the brakes.

The last time that happened the sister was unable to stop and ran over the brother.

He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead.

[MadMaddie]

5. I didn't do stupid shit like that when I was 16 and 17

It's not rocket science to figure out a car can kill. geeze...the poor parents.

[backscatter712]

3. Think the Crotch Bomber is now eligible?

/me sings Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire...

[ddeclue]

6. honorable mention - can only win posthumously...

[Lithos]

7. There was some talk if the person could not reproduce afterwards

death being optional. Don't know if they amended the rules or not.

[backscatter712]

8. No, to be eligible for the Darwin Award, one must only be prevented from reproducing.

Death is but one avenue that satisfies that requirement. One can also become eligible through sterilization...