Top 10 from the Darwin Awards list

The Darwin Prize is a virtual award given to people who have died as a result of their own stupidity, without even leaving behind any offspring. In simple terms, it is a prize for the most ridiculous human demise. Anyone can become a nominee, no matter what country in the world they live in. The creators of the prize look at all the cases that have occurred throughout the year. The one whose death was the most stupid becomes the winner. Who was awarded the prize and why.

1. In 1996, a Polish farmer who was celebrating his approaching wedding with his friends, received the award. The men were fooling around and hitting each other with turnips. Suddenly, the best man decided to show how real men behave? – And cut off his own foot. Whereupon the frustrated groom took a chainsaw and cut off his own head.
2. In 1982 it was the only time the award was given to a man who survived. We are talking about a man who flew at an altitude of 3,000 metres on a chair to which helium-filled weather balloons were strapped.
3. The 2019 prize went to Polish drivers whose cars collided on a motorway, with neither one nor the other injured. However, they decided to find out who was responsible for the accident, got into a fight and were run over by a lorry which claimed their lives.
4. 1995 – the award goes to the driver who decided to refuel his car with rocket fuel, and as a result, he lost control and crashed at high speed into a rock in the Arizona desert, where he died.
5. In 1999, an elaborate French suicide bomber, who used 5 suicide methods at once, won the prize and did not die. Death, however, caught up with him: trying to end his life, he fell into cold water and died of hypothermia.
6. In 1994, the prize goes to the American Jacques Lefevrier, who hatched a cunning plan to eliminate his parents and receive his inheritance, but who fell into the net and was killed by a shot fired accidentally by his father.
7. In 2017, Russian Natalia Borodina decided to holiday in the Dominican Republic. While travelling in her car, she leaned out the window and collided with a road sign. The woman died of her injuries.
8. Another Darwin prize was awarded in 1998 to a couple whose names have not been released by the official media. All that is known is that they lived in Buenos Aires. During one of their many arguments, the husband threw his wife out the window. She did not fall, but hung on the electric wires. When the man saw this, he threw himself out of the window, hoping to get to her.
9. In 2004, a prize was awarded to an American priest who tied a tree to his car in order to help an acquaintance uproot it. As a result, the tree fell on the car and crushed the poor man.
10. 1998, the prize went to a scuba diver who was a victim of circumstances. He was in a body of water when a helicopter, which was fighting a forest fire in California, scooped up water along with the man. As a result, he was thrown from a great height and died.