/r/DarwinAwards

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Reddit home of the Darwin Awards: Population control volunteers. The tree of life is self-pruning!

/r/DarwinAwards is dedicated to Darwin Award candidates! To qualify, the person must have done something dumb that left them unable to reproduce via either death or sterilization


/r/DarwinAwards rules:


 

1:Post must include death or sterilization

1a: This means death, or sterilization by their own spectacular actions or from a spectacularly idiotic misapplication of judgment.

1b: DarwinAwards.com has awarded participants who've already had children, but remove themselves from subsequently passing on their genes. Though this is a precedent was previously set for our sub we do allow lee-way. As long as the candidate is not having children post incident, it's fair game.

2: No satire or memes - Though the method of some individual's passings are humorous, this subreddit is for events that actually happened

3: No Suicides - Do not post obvious suicides or murders. This includes people intentionally jumping in front of vehicles, shooting themselves, or putting themselves in harm's way to kill themselves. Intentionally ending ones life does not count towards a darwin award

4: No combat footage or murder - The majority of killings made in self-defense, or the defense of others, do not qualify for darwin awards except in extremely rare circumstances.

5: No unavoidable tragedies or accidents - Darwin Awards are not for common every day mishaps and accidents. The awardee needs to have intentionally done something fantastically stupid resulting in their misadventure

6: No Minors - Content blatantly depicting minors or that can be verified as containing minors (via news article, previous posts, etc) are not allowed in this subreddit. Per site-wide rules a minor is defined as anyone under the age of 18 years old.

7 No Reposts - Do your best not to repost content submitted within the last month.

7a: If you repost something within a week of it being uploaded, you will receive a warning and the post will be deleted.

7b: If you repost something within a day of it being uploaded, you will receive a warning, a temp ban, and the post will be deleted.

8: No Uncivil Commentary - Please practice good reddiquette. We encourage thoughtful discussion and civil discourse in this subreddit, but please respect the injured, deceased, and one another. This includes personal attacks or harassment of other users. Dark and tasteless humor will also be removed at a moderator's discretion.

9: No racism/hate/slurs/radicalism - Hate speech, bigotry, racism, homophobia, transphobia or disparaging comments about geographical locations/cultures are not allowed nor welcome here.

10: No Politics - Political discussions are also not welcome here and will be subject to removal. Please keep your opinions on all things political to yourself.


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Pornstar falls to her death filming threesome

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Crossing Highway by walking

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US: Student dies falling from light pole celebrating Eagles victory

A Temple University freshman & award-winning gymnast, tragically fell from a light pole during the Philadelphia Eagles’ NFC Championship celebration advancing to the Super Bowl

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Climber Repeatedly Told to Stop Dies on Mt. Everest

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Lately every post here is a link to an external page. I would be looking on the internet if I wanted, why there are no embedded videos anymore?

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03:32 UTC

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Stuck on Safety: Man's Adhesive Maneuver to Dodge Contraception Backfires

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Apex predator on it again

Walking with headphones on, gets dragged for miles

https://i.redd.it/am60q7h5l7be1.gif

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17:14 UTC

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Motorcyclist hits a pole while filming himself and dies after 8 days in hospital

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14:48 UTC

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New Years Eve Aftermath in Germany: 5 People dead

2024–2025 German New Year's Eve pyrotechnics incidents (Wikipedia)

During the celebration of New Year's Eve and day between 2024 and 2025, several incidents involving the use of pyrotechnics occurred throughout Germany, resulting in the deaths of five people, the injury of several dozens, and culminating in the arrests of least 330.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14241439/New-Years-chaos-streets-Germany-five-people-killed-400-arrested-police-firefighter-attacked-fireworks.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/europe/germany-fireworks-new-year-deaths-intl/index.html

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/jahreswechsel-inland-100.html

The regulations regarding fireworks in Germany are pretty strict.
You can pretty much say all fireworks, available for purchasing ( to the general population) here is safe for use and are not a risk for severe injury and death. Still some people are dumb enough to buy illegal or craft some selfmade shit...

Besides that I think the selling of fireworks should be disestablished, except for professional artists.
It is loud, bad for the environment and animals and overal is does not serve a purpose.
I do appreciate a good professional firework, but how the people here escalate on new years eve is so unnecessary...

Edit: I tried to remove the NSFW and spoiler tag. Apologies for everyone expecting a video. This is only news.

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02:14 UTC

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Idiot tries to rob a gun store with a hammer; gets shot instead.

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