The Darwin Awards VI: Countdown to Extinction

(The countdown has begun . . . )What distinguishes humans from baser animals is our higher intelligence.- This is because most humans know to think twice before headbutting a coconut or biting down on a live wire.- Intelligent individuals generally know not to use a mattress pad as- a floatation device, or to kitesurf in a hurricane.- Darwin Award winners, however, lack this basic common sense.Named for the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards honour those who help natural selection by taking a swan dive into the shallow end of the gene pool.- From attaching a five-horsepower engine to a barstool, to hammering a metal hook into an explosive device, to using a Taser to treat a snake bite, The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction show that the countdown (to human extinction) is well underway - and we wont exit this mortal coil without one last laugh.Illustrated and featuring all-new tales of the marvellously macabre, The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction chronicles humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder and prove that intelligence is not as common among humans as wed like to think.