For those of you who haven't heard of Darwin Awards, they are awarded to people who have done incredibly stupid dangerous things and survived to tell the tale.
If you here of any new ones please let me know.
1997 Award Winner
An American guy wanted to watch a sporting event without paying. So he tied a number of Helium balloons to a deck chair with the idea of getting high enough off the ground to see over the fence.
However, he got a bit carried away with the balloons and went much higher than expected. He thought this was great, until he was almost hit by a passing aircraft !
At this point he decided it might be a good idea to come back down. To achieve this goal he burst some of the balloons. Once again he became a bit carried away and burst too many.
This had the affect of speeding him Earthward a little faster than he'd expected. He hit the ground with quite a thud causing himself considerable injury.
Despite his sudden & un-expected discovery of gravity, he survived and gained the Darwin Award.
-- Source Chris Pittock --