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DARWIN AWARDS NEWSLETTER - 25 June 2003
The Darwin Awards honor those who improve the human race by removing themselves from it in really stupid ways, thereby improving our gene pool.
Wendy Northcutt, creator of darwinawards.com, is featured on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien show on June 25, Wednesday night (also known as early Thursday morning) at 12:35AM. The show will be on again Thursday afternoon on Comedy Central.
If you'd like to see Conan ask me tough questions about evolution, and give his version of Russian roulette called "Stomp the Mime," consult your local TV guide, and tune in! Mine is the last segment.
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KUNG FU LION -- Unconfirmed Darwin Award
1980s, Australia | A rather impressionable student of kung fu listened with rapt attention when his instructor dramatically informed the class, "Now that you have reached this level in your training, you can kill wild animals with your bare hands!"
The martial arts trainee took the statement as gospel, and headed to the Melbourne zoo to test his mettle with the wildest animal of all: the lion. In the dead of night, he slipped into the zoo, leapt into the lion enclosure, and challenged a suitable king of the jungle in combat.
He would probably have lost a one-on-one fight, but he never got to try. His naive fight plan didn't account for the enthusiasm of the lion's pride for a tender intruder; nor did it give sufficient weight to the possibility
that his instructor didn't konw what the hell he was talking about.
Zoo employees found his remains -- two arms and hands -- the following morning, with shreds of red fur grasped tightly in his fingers. |
