2006 Darwin Award

[Stoopider]

Hmm. I think the 10 year old kid who hung himself after watching Saddam Hussein hung to death on the internet should be an honorary mention.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...1/s1821967.htm

Boy hangs himself after watching Saddam

Police say a 10-year-old US boy who hanged himself may have been inspired to do it by television coverage of Saddam Hussein's execution.

Relatives told police in Webster Texas that Sergio Pelico had seen the video of the former Iraqi leader's hanging and asked about it before the incident on Sunday.

"We're theorising he tried to experiment or mimick the behaviour and it got out of control," Webster Police Captain Thomas Claunch said.

Police say the boy apparently went to his room, attached a piece of clothing to a bunk bed and tied it around his neck.

Adults and other children were in the house at the time.

"There was nothing to indicate any criminal wrongdoing," Mr Claunch said.

"It appears to be a tragic accident."