These are the most popular nominations, by public vote, for the year’s best examples of removing yourself from a grateful gene pool by sheer force of your own innate (or learned) stupidity. Interestingly, the overwhelming winner is contentious enough that they are considering removing the category altogether; it seems that there are quite a lot of people who believe strongly that pounding on RPGs with a sledgehammer or rolling an unexploded bomb downhill is not stupid behavior if the alternative is poverty. In these cases, however, the alternative was a life in poverty, which is surely the smart choice under these or, indeed, any circumstances.
Seriously, people, economic imperatives only override physical ones when the intellect fails; this is why they are called the Darwin Awards. You can’t provide for your family if you blowed yourself up real good; species who favour food which is poisonous to them tend to die out. Simple.
Donald Trump or Stephen Harper, feel free to disagree and to take your disagreement to the nearest RPG or bomb on the top of a hill.
Hammer of Doom 8.0 (2421 votes)
Stubbed Out 7.8 (1838 votes)
Star Wars 7.8 (1664 votes)
High on Life 7.7 (1423 votes)
Score For Goliath 7.3 (2150 votes)
Copper Kite 7.3 (1006 votes)
Faithful Flotation 7.2 (1804 votes)
Technical Difficulties 5.9 (46 votes)
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