Large Fierce Mammal

The logo from the Darwin Awards website says it all. I actually know a man who did this to himself – twice. He had a ladder leaning against the limb both times, and both incidents were on the same day. I’m sad to report that he has children.

Nature doesn’t care if you live or die. She only cares that, moment by moment, you keep proving your worthiness to remain breathing, and as in the theatre, you’re only as good as your last performance.

In this day of instant gratification and miraculous cures, an unfortunate majority live in a 911 mindset, ill prepared and doing incredibly stupid things in the belief that no matter what they do, or choose not to do, they will be saved. That no matter how badly injured you may be, medical science can fix you. Every crime can be solved. Every fucking sperm is sacred. Bullshit.

People are wild animals who have been successful in finding workarounds that permit idiocy to become a lifestyle choice, using technology to stave off the inevitable reality that Nature has only one penalty for stupidity – death.

It’s because of this ever so real dark sentiment that the Darwin Awards were created, and the film clip I offer today is a shining example. Nobody died, and just don’t be drinking anything when you watch it.