Ummm - no, there have never been any official "Darwin Awards", and what "Darwin Awards" stuff there is has most certainly not stopped, for reasons of taste or otherwise.zip accident wrote:There were The Darwin awards for a couple of years for exactly that, until people maybe rightly decided it was tasteless.
From snopes :
http://www.darwinawards.com is still going strong.Contrary to common belief, there is no panel of distinguished judges weighing each potential Darwin Award entry then sagely reaching agreement as to which deserves an official accolade. Darwin Awards e-mails have been circulating on the Internet at least since May 1991, with the earliest e-mails and newsgroups posts of this nature setting before posterity inventive works of fiction that had been labeled by their authors as true accounts of actual deaths. Years after the term “Darwin Award” was being used in connection with text descriptions of deaths by misadventure, a number of web sites sprang up to archive the variety of Darwin Award tales then in circulation. Those sites not only collected the fictional offerings then making the online rounds but also on their own dug up numerous true accounts of death by stupidity, thus building a vast body of such tales, some true and some not. While other sites have since faded into obscurity, one has emerged as the clear winner: DarwinAwards.com, a site owned and maintained by Wendy Northcutt. Ms. Northcutt has since authored three highly successful books based on her site.
