Here’s another “Best of 2005” list of special contributions to humankind:
In retrospect, it was an obvious error to make. Last January, Marko, a 55-year-old Croatian, thought up an ‘ingenious’ solution to the problem of cleaning his chimney. It was too high to push a broom up from the ground, he realised, so he decided to climb on to his roof and drop a brush down. All he needed was a nice heavy weight to make sure it did not get stuck and was pulled straight through to the grate below.
So Marko selected a nice convenient heavy lump of metal – which turned out to be a hand grenade. Not a great choice, though even then Marko might have survived the encounter had he not decided to connect the grenade to the brush by the use of welding equipment. The metal heated up, the grenade exploded and Marko was killed instantly. His chimney was untouched.
Marko will not be forgotten, however. He is honoured today in this year’s Darwin Awards. These are given every year, in the name of the father of evolution, to commemorate those who have best improved the gene pool of the human species by removing themselves from it.
Let’s remember that an important segment of evolution in practice is the failures that no longer alter our future as a species.
The question is whether he had children before he perished. If so, he beat the natural selection system and our gene pool is no different wthout him.
thats awesome! the one with the landmines and the elephnts is my favorite though.
The evolution of medicine is the destruction of the genetic evolution of mankind. Natural and intelligent selection are lost concepts as nearly everyone can and does reproduce now and society pays/contributes to the health and welfare of nearly every individual to at least the point of sexual maturity where the process begins again. Also, ignorance is rarely a fatal “disease” these days as doctor’s can/will bring back almost everyone from the edge of death (even the sick one’s that don’t want to be brought back). Thus we are definitely not strengthening our gene pool although scientists would like you to believe that their trial-n-error attempts at altering genes will make genetic evolution unnecessary, it’s more likely to cause a major catastrophe as we attempt to usurp and fiddle with nature itself.