The Darwin Awards

Judging from the thousands of minutes of sheer stupidity available on YouTube, it is truly amazing that the human race has made it this far.

We deserve complete extinction, if you ask me.

Insulated from the natural dangers that afflicted our prehistoric ancestors, it appears that modern man needs to actually CREATE situations where we purposely put ourselves in danger.

The Darwin Awards, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin-are those given to individuals who “do humanity a service by removing themselves from the gene pool”, usually through sheer stupidity, thus insuring those idiot genes are not passed down to the next generation.

This, of course, means death.

While people exiting this world is such a stupid fashion has spawned a series of bestselling books, I prefer to focus on those whose stupidity merely entertains us-without hopefully causing serious injury.

Check out the video compilation of human folly:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEPX2GpoXY

I don’t know if intelligent life from other planets is able to tap into our internet and view these episodes of sheer lunacy. If they are, it’s a good bet that are planning trip to Earth for an easy conquest. How can a species that behaves like THIS ever hope to put up a decent fight?

Of course, we have ALL done stupid things-it’s just that nowadays, the likelihood of someone nearby capturing your embarrassing episode on video has never been higher.

Here’s to staying safe—and if you MUST make a fool of yourself, check to see that nobody is filming it!

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