Are These Idiots After a Darwin Award?
The Central Line today was disrupted by cable thefts today.
This follows a pattern and eventually, it will lead to someone winning a Darwin Award.
The Darwin Awards commerate those who yield to natural selection and “remove” themselves from the gene pool…thereby ensuring that the next generation is smarter by one.
Of necessity, the award is usually bestowed posthumously.
Here’s typical behaviour that can win an award or in this case two.
Who would park the car on a busy freeway in heavy fog, for a quickie?
That’s the whole picture: A young couple, driving along Via Dutra, the largest freeway in Brazil with tons of heavy traffic, at 6AM under heavy fog. The couple decided that this was the time to park (for “dating” according to the charming Google translation) and, yes, they parked on the freeway in the right-hand lane, not on the shoulder, the median, or at a gas station. Naturally, given time a cargo truck encountered a “speed bump,” instantly killing both — during the act of procreation — double-double Darwin Award! (2) people making (2) obviously bad decisions, and natural selection acts at the very moment the two are reproducing. Textbook!
Stealing live high-voltage cables is probably equally stupid. But would our legal system pay out damages to the family of idiots killed in this way?
Surely being nominated for a Darwin Award disqualifies you from receiving compensation!
The Anonymous Widower 
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