The Darwin Prize is said to have started in 1985 with a series of anonymous email groups, and its dedicated website started in 1994 by Wendy Northcutt, a UC Berkeley molecular biology graduate. The low-key beauty has written four books on the Darwin Awards, introducing various winners at different times. Northcutt listed five necessary conditions for winning the award on the website:
1. Death, or becoming a vegetative person;
2. Earth-shattering, stupid judgments or behaviors;
3. Self-determination and death by others' stupid behaviors are not counted;
4 . . The parties are adults and have normal thinking and judgment ability;
5. The incident is true and reliable, and it actually happened.
In 2006, Hollywood made a movie called "Darwin Award". The story links these stupid deaths to insurance company accident investigators,
and several of the examples cited in the film are true, such as the 1996 Toronto man who showed off his new bulletproof glass to a friend and rushed to the The lawyer who fell from the floor-to-ceiling windows on the 24th floor fell to his death on the spot, and I heard about the genius who modified his car with a fighter engine in about 2001. Although I don't know if it's accurate, it is said that he won the first place this year because his fighter car collided and exploded because it flew too fast. It was rescued in the end, so it can only be an honorable mention.
Larry has had a long-cherished wish since he was a child, that is, to build his own hot air balloon and fly into the sky. But people are poor and have no money to buy those fancy equipment to build a decent hot air balloon, so people gave full play to their ingenuity and cleverness to DIY, and bought 45 helium balloons from the military supply store to detect the weather. , holding a pocket bullet gun in his hand, intending to control the landing by breaking the balloon one by one with the gun after reaching a height of 100 feet and entering a suspended state. As for the man-carrying basket hanging under the balloon, I can just tie up an old chair on the lawn in the backyard and tie it up.
And just like that, the terrific hero strapped himself to a plastic lawn chair with sandwiches, beer, and other snacks for him to eat while he admired the view from the sky. He holds a pinball gun and hangs under 45 giant helium balloons, ready to take off for a trip.
The liftoff was so successful, even so successful, that before he could react, the balloon took him to the chair, and he rose at the speed of a rocket to an altitude of 16,000 feet, where the oxygen was thin and the temperature was extremely low (almost Everest). peaks so high). Larry's face was blue from the cold, his lips were purple, his body was stiff, and he didn't have the strength to lift his arm and pull the trigger to break the balloon and deflate. After regaining consciousness, he was still reluctant to break the balloon with a gun—at that altitude, failing to balance it would be a death sentence—even though he was not far from the death penalty. In this way, Larry floated in the icy atmosphere for 14 hours in the freezing atmosphere! Fortunately, the place where this guy carried out the lift-off experiment was not far from the airport, and he was about to freeze to death. It just so happened that a few passenger planes happened to pass by. The pilot suddenly found a UFO in front of him and looked closely, okay? , where did the neuropathy come from to hang himself on a balloon to commit suicide, it's a once in a century! So, with the cooperation of several planes, Larry finally broke the balloons one by one and landed slowly, and then he came back with a small life.
But the film is not a documentary, and it does not mainly tell the stories of these crazy Darwin Award winners, but from a different angle to portray the self-discovery process of a former detective who is very addicted to the Darwin Award. Of course, the former detective and Winona Ryder played The love of a beautiful female insurance investigator is also an indispensable routine in Hollywood movies. Still, the movie made me laugh out loud to pay homage to these crazy pioneers - in whom human creativity and folly are the most perfect combination and display, maybe in God In our eyes, each of us may be too stupid and not creative enough to deserve a Darwin Award nomination!
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