# What has happened to the Darwin Awards?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** magazines-newspapers\
**Created:** [March 3, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-the-darwin-awards/1015040 "2025-03-03T00:00:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-the-darwin-awards/1015040/21 "2025-03-03T20:01:26Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Was a version of this story circulated where he died? I remember hearing this story in the early-to-mid-90s, and in the versions I’ve heard, he always survived.

Well, the Brazilian priest who tried the same trick died in the attempt in 2008, so he may have made it into the published Darwin Awards.

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**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-the-darwin-awards/1015040/22 "2025-03-03T21:42:06Z")

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Isn’t that the same idiot who claimed a raped woman could mentally prevent pregnancy?

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-the-darwin-awards/1015040/23 "2025-03-03T21:56:06Z")

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That was Todd Akin. Different early 2010s Republican shithead.

> **[Ex-US Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies](https://apnews.com/article/former-rep-todd-akin-dead-0a1b944f96eee4b63d9ea57e04c44ca4)**
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> Former conservative Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri has died. Akin’s son Perry says in a statement that his father died late Sunday at age 74 from cancer.

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