I think he’s a great candidate. I hereby (unoffically) nominate the late Mr. Dunn for a Darwin Award.
Who’s Ryan Dunn?
Star of the show/movies Jackass, who died in a car crash. Not really seeing the Darwin awards connection, it was a car crash.
I think the OP is referring to the fact that he was drunk and driving a million miles per hour.
But, I’m with you. There have to be better candidates.
Meh. There’s thousands of assholes who drive drunk and kill themselves and other people.
At least Ryan Dunn was willing to get kicked in the balls on national TV for my entertainment. And really, how else was it going to end for that guy anyway? Was it really that much of a surprise?
To repeat, Dunn’s car crash was as Darwin awards-worthy as car crashes go. Going for a drive while blind drunk and then speeding nearly 100 mph over the speed limit is just that (or a murder-suicide). The only good thing is he didn’t wipe out a family of five doing that, just himself and his friend.
Without a JATO strapped to the car I’d have to vote no. It was stupid, no question, but not Darwin-worthy, IMO.
I admit his demise was rather mundane and lacking in creativity. But I reckon shooting oneself in the head is about as dangerous as his stunt, so assuming he wasn’t planning on killing himself, he is a Darwin-candidate.
Drunk driving is waaaaaay too commonplace to be Darwin-worthy. It happens thousands of times every year.
Previous threads on the subject:
ISTM the only reason he’s seen as a Darwin candidate is because of his stunts on Jackass. Had he been any other person and died in the same way no one beyond the locals would have even have heard about it. I vote no.
Had he died doing a Jackass stunt, then I could understand the nomination.
So… there’s still hope for Bam Margera.
He was driving drunk, in a dangerously modified Porsche. His passenger was killed. He took someone else with him. Was photograped with his friends drunk at a bar shortly before the crash (which totally demolished the car).
What a jackass.
I don’t understand how this could not be Darwin worthy. What more is required?
There is no better candidate than the late Ryan Dunn.
As far as the whole Jackass death-pool thing goes, I thought Steve-O would be the first to punch his own ticket. Drug-related or rectal trauma.
It qualifies, but people are just suggesting that there are much more deserving candidates for this coveted award. If you give them out to everybody, the award ceases to have meaning.
Big difference in implied cognitive ability between the ubiquitous drunk driver and someone that thinks live .22 bullets are appropriate for use in his vehicle’s fuse box.
From looking at the Wikipediaarticle, Dunn’s death would probably fall behind others on the “Excellence” requirement:
Drunk driving is nowhere near “unique.” The examples listed in the article are way more spectacular.
At first I mis-read the thread title as referring to Adam Dunn, who had a career nosedive last year.