For anyone who may not have heard of these, they are (very tongue-in-cheek, and typically posthumous) 'honors' awarded to people who have done the human genepool a service by removing themselves from it, usually by doing something colossally stupid!
This website lists hundreds of Darwin Awards stories, if you have some time on your hands.
Came across a real contender for one of these awards myself tonight: a man on a bicycle with no helmet or reflective gear other than a few stripes on the ankles of his pants, riding on a narrow two-lane road with no streetlights or real shoulder in rush hour traffic! In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon."
I still say that sometimes- What a maroon.
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