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- KenCW, on 01/02/2009, -2/+171The flying nun could not be reached for comment.
- doublefelix, on 01/03/2009, -3/+117I thought Catholic priests were exempt from the Darwins.
- RobotBanana, on 01/03/2009, -6/+103Is there anyone else that thinks there are much better candidates for the Darwin award? I dislike religion as much as the next guy, but this person (priest or not) was trying to do something daring and entertaining to raise money for his cause. If he had made it, everyone here would be digging the article up and giving him kudos. He was even trying to break a previous record.
I assume some work had gone into planning this in an attempt to ensure a certain level of safety.
I think standing in front of a train to save your car is significantly more stupid than this unfortunate accident... - UbIwerks, on 01/03/2009, -1/+54Well, that just blows me away.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -3/+48But he didn't die, did he? DISQUALIFIED.
- p47plane, on 01/03/2009, -1/+33Not everyone gets to ride the popemobile.
- twiztidsinz, on 01/03/2009, -0/+31Copy/Paste....... TO THE EXTREME!!!!!
- Vitrophyric, on 01/03/2009, -1/+30Here's the actual Darwin Award link in case you want to read the full story
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.h ... - inactive, on 01/03/2009, -4/+33come on guys, he was just trying to help humanity
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -0/+28Just say N2O
- greenwald, on 01/03/2009, -2/+28The priest probably did it to a 4 year first as well.
- Tyrghast, on 01/03/2009, -2/+24Yeah i would laugh if it was a black, jewish or gay person who died, cus it was a stupid ***** idea.
- publiclurker, on 01/03/2009, -0/+21I prefer adventures that don't result in my body being found three months later.
- sexybobo, on 01/03/2009, -1/+21They should be since they aren't supposed to pass on there genetics.
But seriously you'd think some one would have though to tether the chair to something. - polypropglop, on 01/03/2009, -0/+20O.o Wtf?
- JMCtg, on 01/03/2009, -0/+20Unnecessary mirror of Digg is unnecessary.
- gbudavid, on 01/02/2009, -8/+27We had a gas station owner out here Went From Bend Oregon to Puckerbrush Idaho in a lawn chair and a bunch of Party balloons last summer. They ought to have to split the Darwin...
- bysin, on 01/03/2009, -2/+20You're born black or gay, but its a choice to be religious. So there is a difference.
- msweet, on 01/03/2009, -1/+19How come he gets a Darwin award... he's a priest and won't be handing on his seed. Isn't that the whole point of the Darwin award? Taking stupidity out of the gene pool?
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -0/+18Helium Kills.
- CDHarrisUSF, on 01/03/2009, -0/+18Technically, you just have to remove yourself from the gene pool (and not have any kids already either). You could win one for doing something stupid and accidentally chopping your balls off.
- Bauer22, on 01/03/2009, -5/+22You can help humanity in other ways then strapping yourself to a thousand balloons and flying over the sea. Did he consider a bake sale?
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -1/+18Look around. Apparently he LOVES stupid people.
- Khast, on 01/03/2009, -5/+21Crap, anyone other than the priest know a resurrection spell?
- oboshoe, on 01/03/2009, -0/+15Its a device that we use to punish airplanes that commit terrible deeds.
- aaron552, on 01/03/2009, -0/+15buried for redundancy "darwin award for stupidity"
- CayoMan, on 01/02/2009, -7/+22Too much faith, somebody should told him that praying is the best way to get to heaven lol
- singleton, on 01/03/2009, -0/+14They demonstrated that it was possible on MythBusters. Not that they needed to because it actually happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters - avengingturnip, on 01/03/2009, -2/+15Kind of redundant since they are already removed from the gene pool.
- Hetman, on 01/03/2009, -0/+13Agreed the catholic church does not deny evolution. The pope has been quoted as saying truth cannot contradict truth.
- frsrblch, on 01/03/2009, -0/+13We don't laugh at them FOR dying, we laugh at them for HOW they died.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -1/+14And waste a perfectly good kid?
- mriegger, on 01/03/2009, -1/+13The Internet is probably not the best place to look for pity.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -1/+13wiki:
A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek "honor" named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. Awards have been given for people who "do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the Gene pool", i.e., lose the ability to reproduce either by death or sterilization in a stupid fashion
maybe it should be given to all catholic priests - MvP1292, on 01/03/2009, -2/+14way to stereotype big guy..
- stigma15, on 01/03/2009, -0/+12I have to say that aside from the overwhelming risk of injury and/or death, this looks like a ***** of fun.
- playuhh, on 01/03/2009, -3/+14Mythbusters proved it takes over 4000 balloons to lift a small child...
- publiclurker, on 01/03/2009, -0/+11And waste a perfectly good bag of potatoes?
- XenoSNK, on 01/03/2009, -0/+11But that's what the guy did in 2006. You can't award the same act twice.
Then again, it could be the fact that the guy from 2008 didn't learn from 2006... - shiftkgb, on 01/03/2009, -1/+12#2 definitely shouldve won, http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-17.h ...
- FurtThePirate, on 01/03/2009, -0/+11linked to the website revealed that he had a sat phone and a GPS, but didn't know how to work the GPS.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -0/+10The shaman was afk for too long.
- publiclurker, on 01/03/2009, -0/+10Their balloons were not as large as the ones this guy used. His looked to be almost 2 foot in diameter.
- treytravis, on 01/03/2009, -0/+10fail
- bizkit00, on 01/03/2009, -1/+11relevancy:
"A man died after floating out to sea using party balloons."
"Wait, why would he do that?"
"He also believed in virgin birth and rising from the dead."
"Oooh..." - inactive, on 01/03/2009, -1/+10Not that anything in this article relates to faith
- publiclurker, on 01/03/2009, -2/+11Part of the award is for creativity. Trains have been done to death already.
- BossKey, on 01/03/2009, -0/+9When you want to abort an airplane mission, you use an airplane hanger.
- lazybuoy, on 01/03/2009, -0/+9Evolution works the way it should, whether you believe in it or not.
- Giga, on 01/03/2009, -0/+9I hate the concept of organised religion, but I don't really care if someone believes in God. I just hate it when people try to force ideas or start wars etc in the name of God.
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