The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection
Written by Wendy Northcutt
Narrated by Jason Harris
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About this audiobook
The Darwin Awards: Unnatural Selection commemorates those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be!
Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes.
These tales of trial and awe-inspiring error illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory!
Don't miss the other volumes of the Darwin Awards.
©2001 Wendy Northcutt; (P)2001 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
Wendy Northcutt
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. Her award-winning Web site www.DarwinAwards.com is one of the most popular humor pages on the Web. The Darwin Awards have been profiled in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. Wendy is the author of the international bestsellers The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, The Darwin Awards 2: Unnatural Selection, and The Darwin Awards 3: Survival of the Fittest.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5the things people do! unbelievable! very funny, very disturbing, very odd, the things people do or even think about doing.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Blech! The stories are sometimes funny in ones on the blog, but all collected in a book it feels cruel.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5So while reading this book it dawned on me that for some reason, although the stories were entertaining, I was not the least bit surprised by how stupid people can be. maybe we have been over exposed to it most of our lives, but then, you would think that somewhere,people would get smarter.This book listed accounts of stupid things that stupid people did to get themselves hurt or killed. Of these people and stories awards are given, albeit just for names sake.I do find that the idea is a little sick and twisted, but if you are into hearing stories about the robber that went down the chimney and got stuck....well, this book is for you.