# Another Darwin Award Candidate **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538 "2010-04-01T05:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/1 "2010-04-01T05:43:41Z")
This guy flies across the world and becomes a crispy critter. :smack: Imagine sitting on your sofa and watching tv. You’re bored. I know! Let’s find a volcano and stick our head in it. It’ll be fun. 😃 > **[Tourist Dies After Falling Into Active Bali Volcano](https://www.foxnews.com/world/tourist-dies-after-falling-into-active-bali-volcano)** > > The 25-year-old man from Sweden slipped as he tried to peer into the crater after a trek to the 5,600-foot summit on the northeastern side of the popular Indonesian island. I know the family must be hurting. But, geez what a stupid and senseless way to die. He should have saved air fare and played dodge car on a busy street. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/2 "2010-04-01T07:22:27Z")
Rest well, Joe. Your brain cloud will bother you no more. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/3 "2010-04-01T07:39:00Z")
He slipped, fell and died. Where’s the grotesque display of fatal stupidity in that to grant the derision of being called a Darwin Award winner? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/4 "2010-04-01T13:44:09Z")
Yeah, it’s not the [Dick van Dyke](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yPWyFZEdY0s/SUQlcjmY0kI/AAAAAAAAH10/geapGChuL5w/s400/ottoman.jpg) Award, it’s the Darwin Award. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/5 "2010-04-01T14:11:26Z")
The article mentioned this was an easy climb that is popular with day-trippers. To fall into the volcano this guy must of done something special. He probably detoured off the path and got to the edge. Anyhow, at 1AM in the morning, the stupidity of this struck me as funny. I can just imagine this guy, hanging onto a slippery rock looking into a live volcano. 😃 > [@](#): > > The 25-year-old man slipped as he tried to peer into the crater after a dawn trek to the summit, which climbs to 5,600 feet, on the northeastern side of the island, police added. A 1999 Darwin Award winner involved a hiker that left the group and fell off Mount Rainier. Falls can be award winners if a hiker does something unusually stupid. > **[1999 Darwin Award: Stay With the Herd!](https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-22.html)** > > Darwin Award: Stay With the Herd!: Scenic cliffs abound on the slopes of Mount Rainier, and falling deaths are common on the 14,411-foot dormant volcano. But that didn't deter one snowboarder, who declined a ranger's invitation to join a group he wa ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/6 "2010-04-01T14:18:07Z")
Found another article with more information. Took 60 people to recover the body. At least he didn’t fall into lava. They didn’t mention a burned body. [http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/young-tourist-slips-into-volcano-crater-20100401-rf8v.html](http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/young-tourist-slips-into-volcano-crater-20100401-rf8v.html) > [@](#): > > The area around the rim was quite slippery in the morning. In such circumstances, the victim’s colleagues and the guide could not possibly rescue him by going down into the crater ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/7 "2010-04-01T14:21:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Anyhow, at 1AM in the morning, the stupidity of this struck me as funny. I can just imagine this guy, hanging onto a slippery rock looking into a live volcano. 😃 I’m not getting the humour or irony or any kind of Darwin-worthy stupidity. He fell in a hiking accident. In what way is that “stupid and senseless”? If you’re picturing someone deliberately hanging out over a boiling pit of lava for a better view, [volcanoes don’t look like that](http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/510378). [Another view of the summit of Batur.](http://images.travelpod.com/users/hamiltonfamily/1.1246755142.summit-view-from-gunung-batur.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/8 "2010-04-01T14:35:59Z")
Yeah, I’m not feeling the Darwin here. A guy fell while hiking. It’s tragic, but it happens. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/9 "2010-04-01T14:41:24Z")
ok. I was picturing a pit of lava. \ I must of seen too many jungle movies as a kid. Darn Hollywood sets. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/10 "2010-04-01T14:45:17Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > ok. I was picturing a pit of lava. \ I must of seen too many jungle movies as a kid. Darn Hollywood sets. 😉 Were you picturing Gollum dancing around the Cracks of Doom? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/11 "2010-04-01T15:20:24Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Were you picturing Gollum dancing around the Cracks of Doom? With hiking boots, yes. It sounds like a regular hiking accident and not one of those negligent “I’m going to climb over the barriers with the ‘Danger - Do Not Cross’ signs to get a closer look. Certainly the warning sign doesn’t apply to _me_.” The story is brief, but it sounds more like the typical hiker-too-close-to-edge accidents. We get them even here occasionally along the escarpment. But it’s funny if you picture the guy dressed as Giligan and staring into a lava pit. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Elk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Anne\_Elk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Elk)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/12 "2010-04-01T15:48:57Z")
I sure hope his estate can sue the volcano company for negligence. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/13 "2010-04-01T17:44:31Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > But it’s funny if you picture the guy dressed as Giligan and staring into a lava pit. Yes, yes it is. > [@Anne\_Elk](#): > > I sure hope his estate can sue the volcano company for negligence. :rolleyes: And now I’m imagining a company that builds and sells new and used volcanoes. [contractor voice]“We builds alls kinds of volcanoes here. Anywheres ups to five hundreds feet tall; thoirty feet wides caldera lakes; customs geysers; youse names it. Tireds of your olds volcanoe? We’ll gives the best trade-ins price arounds. Just remembers, for all your volcanoes and volcano accessories, come on down to Tony’s Volcano Warehouse!” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/14 "2010-04-01T17:49:23Z")
There but for the grace of God go I, a frequent peerer into every volcano possible. “Mount Batur is easy to climb compared to some other volcanoes in Indonesia and is popular with day-trippers on Bali.” Day-trippers? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/15 "2010-04-01T17:57:06Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Day-trippers? People who take day trips into the interior of the island from the beach resorts, I assume. Although I’m sure some rich Australians have taken day trips to Bali before now… ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/16 "2010-04-01T18:04:21Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Day-trippers? He was probably listening to it on his iPod when he fell. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/17 "2010-04-01T18:07:57Z")
Not fell… tripped. Otherwise it would be popular with day-fellers. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/18 "2010-04-01T18:38:05Z")
No, this is a man who tripped and deserves the Darwin award. [Man Trips on Baggy Pants and Dies](http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/dpgonc-NY-Killer-Tripped-Pants-Plunged-Death-fc-20091218_5152028) Don’t feel bad. He was a murderer. > [@](#): > > Fleeing empty-handed, Quinones ditched his gun, a .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol loaded with hollow-point bullets, and made a dash down a rear fire escape. > > But again, his low-slung pants fell to his ankles, tripping him and sending him falling three stories to his death, authorities said. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/19 "2010-04-01T18:46:38Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > And now I’m imagining a company that builds and sells new and used volcanoes. > [contractor voice]“We builds alls kinds of volcanoes here. Anywheres ups to five hundreds feet tall; thoirty feet wides caldera lakes; customs geysers; youse names it. Tireds of your olds volcanoe? We’ll gives the best trade-ins price arounds. Just remembers, for all your volcanoes and volcano accessories, come on down to Tony’s Volcano Warehouse!” How much extra for the evil lair option? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538/20 "2010-04-01T19:09:36Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Rest well, Joe. Your brain cloud will bother you no more. ::[snerk](http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Versus-Volcano-Tom-Hanks/dp/B00005Y71F/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1270148937&sr=8-1)!:: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-darwin-award-candidate/534538.md?page=2)