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description
One
of America's most popular humor series returns with a
brand-new collection of hilariously macabre mishaps
and misadventures. Honoring those who improve our gene
pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it, The
Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest shows
once more how uncommon common sense still is.
Featuring science and safety discussions, and filled
with illustrations depicting inspiring examples of
evolution in action, The Darwin Awards III
includes over one hundred all-new stories. Readers
will celebrate Darwin Award winners who made the
"ultimate sacrifice," wonder at the
misguided pluck of Honorable Mentions who survived
their own bad judgment, and look on in awestruck
amusement at Personal Accounts shared with the world
by the perpetrators themselves.
From the sheriff who inadvertently shot himself twice,
to the highway robbers who blocked traffic with their
car and were hit by a truck; from the artist who
strung a "shell" necklace of live
ammunition, to the man crushed by the branch he'd just
severed, The Darwin Awards III proves again
that when it comes to stupidity, no species does it
like we do.
Author
Biography: A graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in
molecular biology, Wendy Northcutt began collecting
the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993 and
founded www.DarwinAwards.com soon thereafter. Her
award-winning website is one of the most popular humor
pages on the web, and has been profiled in USA
Today, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment
Weekly, and on NPR's All Things Considered.
She is the author of the international bestsellers The
Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action and The
Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection. |
