Bons e (muito) velhos prêmios Darwin...



O prêmio Darwin é conferido à pessoa cuja morte é a mais estúpida e absurda do ano, geralmente causada pela estupidez do próprio morto. Rodando pelo site (do qual eu já estava com saudades) encontrei potenciais ganhadores ilustres...

Você sabia que Átila o Huno morreu de sangramento no nariz no dia de seu casamento? Ele se afogou no próprio sangue pq estava bebado demais para saber que não deveria dormir com o nariz sangrando...
Leia estas e outras logo abaixo, ou no site do Darwin Awards...

"Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I embarked on the 3rd Crusade to recapture the Holy Land in the twelfth century. After spending days trudging across the dry summer desert, his army came upon the River Saleph. In his parched state, Frederick threw caution to the wind -- instead of his heavy armor -- and plunged into the river, whereupon he sank to the bottom and drowned.

Attila the Hun was one of the most notorious villains in history. He conquered all of Asia by 450 A.D. by destroying villages and pillaging the countryside. This bloodthirsty man died from a nosebleed on his wedding night. After feasting and toasting his own good fortune, he was too drunk to notice his nose, and he drowned in a snoutful of his own blood.

Tycho Brahe, a sixteenth-century Danish astronomer whose research helped Sir Isaac Newton devise the theory of gravity, died because he didn’t make it to the bathroom in time. In that society it was considered an insult to leave the table before the banquet was over. Brahe forgot to relieve himself before the banquet began, then exacerbated matters by imbibing too much alcohol at dinner. Too polite to ask to be excused, he instead allowed his bladder to burst, which killed him slowly and painfully over the next eleven days.

Francis Bacon was an influential statesman, philosopher, writer, and scientist in the sixteenth century. He died while stuffing snow into a chicken. He had been struck by the notion that snow instead of salt might be used to preserve meat. To test his theory he stood outside in the snow and attempted to stuff the bird. The chicken didn’t freeze, but Bacon did, prompting the question “Which froze first? The Bacon or the egg?”..."

A condição natural do ser humano é o ridículo (esta frase está ficando velha) e a estupidez é o elemento mais comum do universo inteiro "of the woooorld" :)