Very Well Read

Rarely does a sequel surpass the original. OK, I admit it, I never read the original. I don't think it actually matters. I just picked this up because I saw it at the library and I enjoy laughing at other people's stupidity.

Some of the spectacular ways that people ended up dead, thus earning themselves a Darwin Award included:

• the women who died of a skull fracture after falling from her 13 cm platform sandals*.
• the religious dude who drowned in his bath after slipping on a bar of soap while he was practising trying to walk on water to be more like Jesus
• the guy who died in a forklift accident while making a forklift safety video
• the shepherd who was shot to death when one of his sheep stepped on his rifle
  

*In the interest of full disclosure, I'd like to point out that my platform sandals are only 9.5 cm tall. And my platform boots, 11 cm.


Northcutt, Wendy. The Darwin awards II : unnatural selection. New York : Dutton, 2001.

Labels: fluff, humour