To win a Darwin, you have to eliminate yourself and any offspring from the gene pool.
He doesn’t qualify.....yet.
The latter suffices. "Out of the gene pool: dead or sterile" - http://www.darwinawards.com/rules/
if they’d aimed a little lower he might at least have met half of the criteria
unless he got shot somewhere that precludes future breeding.
We can hope.
“To win a Darwin, you have to eliminate yourself and any offspring from the gene pool.”
That just gets you a nomination.
Now, had the cops shot off his weewee, he would qualify. I believe the first instance of this was a man who, while not dying, did something like accept a bet to stand on a piece of wood to get high enough to put his reproductive ... orbs ... in a golf ball cleaner at the course. The prop broke while his orbs were submerged, they were unceremoniously torn from his ... groin .. and he was eliminated from the gene pool, hence scoring a legit victory. You need not die, only eliminate yourself from the possibility of future reproduction. There may have been one more interesting bit to the story ... because a golf ball cleaner only cleans one orb at a time ... his second may have been crushed in the fall. Either way ... a glorious way to win, and yet keep one’s life, so that one may brag to friends, if that’s what one chooses to do with the award.