The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool

by Wendy Northcutt

  Pining Away (Darwin Award)

  plutonium

  poison, self-administered

  priest

  Prop-er Send-off (Darwin Award)

  propane

  Pulling a Boner! (Darwin Award)

  Pushmi-Pullyu (Darwin Award)

  radiation

  rafting

  rape, bestial

  rectum, and alcohol

  Red Hot Chili Peppers (At Risk Survivor)

  Remember the Hindenburg (At Risk Survivor)

  Revenge of Mother Love (At Risk Survivor)

  river

  RoboCop (At Risk Survivor)

  Rock Out (Darwin Award)

  rocket

  Rolling Stones (Darwin Award)

  Roping a Deer (At Risk Survivor)

  Roundabout Rocket (At Risk Survivor)

  Salty Tale (At Risk Survivor)

  school

  Score One for Goliath (Darwin Award)

  sex, bestial

  sex, rooftop

  Shark Kiss (At Risk Survivor)

  Shattered Ego (At Risk Survivor)

  shooting range

  Shopping Cart Crash (Darwin Award)

  Silage Spreader (Darwin Award)

  skiing

  sledgehammer, improper use of

  Slippery Slope (At Risk Survivor)

  Slippery When Wet (Darwin Award)

  Slow Burn (Darwin Award)

  Snake in the Grass (At Risk Survivor)

  snake, adder

  snake, rattlesnake

  snow

  snowmobile

  sodium

  Spirit Is Willing, The (At Risk Survivor)

  Splitting Headache (At Risk Survivor)

  Star Wars (At Risk Survivor)

  sterile, by crotch impact

  sterile, from fishing

  sterile, gunshot

  Stop, Look, Listen (Darwin Award)

  Storm-Water Surfer (At Risk Survivor)

  Stubbed Out (Darwin Award)

  students

  Sudden Stop (Darwin Award)

  Support Group (Darwin Award)

  surfing

  Tales from the Finnish Forest (At Risk Survivor)

  Taser Test (At Risk Survivor)

  teacher

  That Was Your Brain on Drugs (Science Interlude)

  The Alchemist (Darwin Award)

  The Enema Within (Darwin Award)

  The Flaming Shot (At Risk Survivor)

  The Great Dying (Science Interlude)

  The Humanity (Science Interlude)

  The Turn of the Screw (At Risk Survivor)

  Thou Shalt Not Steel (Darwin Award)

  tiger, Bengal

  Timing Is Everything (Darwin Award)

  tire

  train

  trash compactor

  travel, danger of

  tree

  tree, palm

  tree, pine

  tuberculosis, military

  TV

  TV cable

  Unfinished Project (At Risk Survivor)

  uvula

  vacuum cleaner

  vehicle

  vehicle, as a winch

  vehicle, borrowed

  vehicle, hurdling

  vehicle, motorcycle

  vehicle, pickup truck

  vehicle, ship

  vehicle, snowmobile

  vehicle, stolen

  vehicle, tractor

  vehicle, truck

  vehicle, VW

  videotape evidence

  Wascally Wabbit (Darwin Award)

  water

  water, drain

  water, harbor

  water, Ketting Bay

  water, ocean

  water, rain

  water, river

  Weight Lift (Darwin Award)

  Welder

  Whac-A-Mole (Darwin Award)

  Whitewater Floaters (At Risk Survivor)

  woman

  women, impressing

  Wonders of Mosquito Spit (Science Interlude)

  wood chipper

  Your Brain on Drugs (Science Interlude)

  Zap! (Darwin Award)

  * Petrogenesis is the branch of science that deals with the origin and formation of rocks, especially igneous rock.