Awards

You might have heard of the <a href="http://www.darwinawards.com/" target="_new">Darwin Awards</a>. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways. Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.</blockquote> <br />n<br />nI found a <a href="http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/221907-2839-102.html" target="_new">candidate</a> for the Darwin Award. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>A man whose friends initially said he was killed by gunfire outside a Gary liquor store actually died after he donned what he thought was a bulletproof vest and asked a cohort to shoot him.<br />n<br />nA friend then shot Daniel Wright with a .20-gauge shotgun, but it turned out the vest Wright had put on Thursday was a flak jacket not designed to stop a bullet.<br />n<br />nWright, 20, was mortally wounded in the shooting and died later at a Gary hospital after two of his friends drove him there.</blockquote><br />n<br />nAsking to get yourself shot sure sounds like it qualifies for a Darwin Award to me. Another real big idiot in this adventure would be the "friend" that shot him. He ought to get some kind of stupidity award along with his dead buddy.<br />n<br />n<b>The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. Oscar Wilde/b>