Darwin Awards VI

(The countdown has begun . . . )

What distinguishes humans from baser animals is our higher intelligence.  This is because most humans know to think twice before headbutting a coconut or biting down on a live wire.  Intelligent individuals generally know not to use a mattress pad as  a floatation device, or to kitesurf in a hurricane.  Darwin Award winners, however, lack this basic common sense.

Named for the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards honour those who help natural selection by taking a swan dive into the shallow end of the gene pool.  From attaching a five-horsepower engine to a barstool, to hammering a metal hook into an explosive device, to using a Taser to treat a snake bite, The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction show that the countdown (to human extinction) is well underway – and we won't exit this mortal coil without one last laugh.

Illustrated and featuring all-new tales of the marvellously macabre, The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction chronicles humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder and prove that intelligence is not as common among humans as we'd like to think.