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"If you go in the water, you WILL die"

Algae covered rocks, a swift moving current, a giant waterfall, and a sign that states "If you go in the water, you will die" do not deter this hiker from cooling his feet off in the river. Needless to say, the river won.

Article courtesy of John Fullmer

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   Hurricane Carry Me Away Home

Hurricanes strike back this time as 20 people defy evacuation warnings to have a "Hurricane Party" only to be carried off by winds and ocean waves.

Article courtesy of Seong Jun Lee

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Man Finds the Quick Way off a Glacier

A man learns his lesson as geology teaches him that
sliding down a glacier is not the quickest way to get down. Or as my
student put it "look before you jump".

Article courtesy of Heather Judd and Seth Fredrick

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We took a little break but now back to the Darwin Awards.

Man Digs Himself Own Grave in Search for Treasure

Geology strikes back against this person as he continually digs for "treasure" even though the ground became wetter and wetter as he dug through the water table.

Article courtesy of Chase Sundquist

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Next up on the Darwin Awards:

Let's Race Across a Mountain in a Snowmobile

This Darwin Award is geological because because the slope gradient, snowpack, and weather combined to create a natural disaster. Avalanches are geological events, even when aided by stupid people.

Article courtesy of Krista Mugavero

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Next of the Darwin Awards:

Escape Via 55-ft Shear Wet Granite Rock Face

Geology strikes back against these thieves because as they were making their get-a-way they decided to choose a dangerous steep slope that was made of granite, where it had rained the night before, and it is a common fact that rocks are slippery when wet.

Article courtesy of Robert Mrdutt

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The next geological Darwin awards winner is:

Man injured by tsunami, sort of

The geologically relevant thing here is that it is based on the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. A man jumped out of a window trying to evacuate from it and broke several bones. Unfortunately, he was in Serbia at the time.

Article courtesy of Nicole Reid

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The Darwin Awards: Geology Strikes Back

As mentioned before here is the first of a series of posts based on the Darwin Awards.

Gypsum Kills Potential Thief

This is a story of the Earth taking revenge on the immoral. This guy was killed slowly and painfully by a giant selenite crystal in Chihuahua, Mexico when he tried to steal it.

Article courtesy of Rob Armstrong

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Ah the Darwin Awards

The briliance of the Darwin Awards it that they are funny and usually appropriate. I find dark humor very funny and this site appeals to me. So, to take advantage of this I wanted to make another fun page on my website using this but I don't always like actually doing the legwork.This is where my students come in. I figured I would make a school extra credit assignment using the site. These are the objectives:

“The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those
who accidentally remove themselves from it...”

Your assignment is to scour the website - http://www.darwinawards.com/
and find any such awards that relate to geology. I am not sure if any exist but I am
sure they do. You are to then do the following:
1. Provide a link to the specific award
2. Write up a short description of why you think this belongs in a Geological Darwin
Award category
3. Then let me know if you mind if I cite you as a source for finding this on a future
page on my website (If I think it is a good example).
4. Have fun

I have a bunch of them turned in and most, if not all, of them work well. So hopefully I should be able to post these as I go through them.