Darwin Award candidate. Camping in a train tunnel.
I agree. You just beat me to it.
"Darwin Award candidate. Camping in a train tunnel."
Darwin Award candidate. Kayaking in a train tunnel.
Consolences to the family.
"Darwin Award candidate. Camping in a train tunnel."
Darwin Award candidate. Kayaking in a train tunnel.
Condolences to the family.
Coffee is a good thing.
Found this on the Darwin Awards site.
Dumb Kayaker Defeated By Falls
2005 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Hi. I submitted the "Holiday Hypothermia" story, and now I see why it was tossed.
I found something MUCH more Darwanian. Though two DAs (Bottom Of The Barrel and Niagara Falls)about Niagara Falls are already on the site, this guy's idiocy couldn't have been missed.
Jesse Sharp, 28, was an experienced white water kayaker. An unemployed bachelor from Tennesee, he had been planning on a trip over Niagara Falls for years.
On October 5, 1990, our hero, was splashing around in Niagara Falls in his 3.6m kayak.
Without a helmet or lifejacket.
Jesse realized he wouldn't be recongized on video (that three friends were taping) without a helmet. And the prudent desicion to not wear a lifejacket? If he got caught under the falls, he couldn't escape! He also must have realized that he would have no chance of winning a Darwin!
But the fall was just too strong for this helmet-less, lifejacket-less, common sense-less, kayaker.
His body hasn't been recovered. Maybe it's too ashamed.
Submitted on 01/05/2006
I submitted the story to Darwin Awards.