Todays Darwin award goes to....

[AtW]

Decanting petrol in your kitchen while cooking is one of the dumbest things I have ever ever heard. Period.

You'll hear more if you stick around this place for a few years

[centurian]

My thoughts exactly, she didn't look that stupid, I was expecting a council house facelift or or a lady who was increasing our diversity. Bigot I am, or maybe stupidity is truly universal?

I think it counts as an 'Honourable mention'. To qualify for the award you need to remove yourself from the gene pool permanently without progeny.

Crickey - the Wikipedia page even lists 5 criteria

Darwin Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes, this counts as an honourable mention

[Freamon]

I nominate anyone who participated in panic buying, since when the govt says the country is about to run out of fuel, keeping enough petrol in your car really should be the least of your worries. The fact that nobody started panic buying food shows the average level of IQ in the country.

[MarillionFan]

I nominate anyone who participated in panic buying, since when the govt says the country is about to run out of fuel, keeping enough petrol in your car really should be the least of your worries. The fact that nobody started panic buying food shows the average level of IQ in the country.

You thick ****. Without petrol nobody can travel
20 miles to their out of town supermarket. Now
who needs their IQ tested.

[vetran]

Good to see someone in the US was ahead of us :

Slush Pile: Man burned while siphoning gas with

Witnesses said Williamson was trying to siphon gas with an electric leaf blower when a spark from the blower ignited the fire, the report said.

Williamson suffered serious burns to his arms and had to be taken to Tampa General Hospital.

And this one should amuse the congregation :

2010 Darwin Award: Textbook Double Double Darwin

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!

[hyperD]

Labour peer Lord Harris called for Francis Maude to resign after the woman suffered 40 per cent burns when she tried to pour petrol into a jug in her kitchen after her daughter's car needed refuelling.

Lord Harris should not be a Lord. But he deserves to be a typical, self-serving, entitled, self-promoting, bandwaggoning c.unt of the first order.

[Doggy Styles]

Lord Harris should not be a Lord. But he deserves to be a typical, self-serving, entitled, self-promoting, bandwaggoning c.unt of the first order.

Who did he use to be?

[Ravello]

Who did he use to be?

Mr. Harris?

[PorkPie]

My thoughts exactly, she didn't look that stupid, I was expecting a council house facelift or or a lady who was increasing our diversity. Bigoted racist I am, or maybe stupidity is truly universal?

I think it counts as an 'Honourable mention'. To qualify for the award you need to remove yourself from the gene pool permanently without progeny.

Tautology maybe, but FTFY

[Scrag Meister]

Decanting petrol in your kitchen while cooking is one of the dumbest things I have ever ever heard. Period.

WMFS