Every year, many different awards are awarded around the world for various services to humanity. Those nominees whose actions can hardly be called sane, because they invariably had a tragic ending, were not spared.
So, let's talk about the Darwin Award winners. This virtual prize is awarded annually posthumously to people for monstrously stupid actions that led to their death.
1. My home is my castle
An elderly Belgian engineer was killed by one of his own death traps that he set in his own home. He lost a lawsuit over his daughter's house and feared eviction.
2. Self-preservation instinct - self-defense or suicide
Some people fall asleep with a teddy bear, but forty-seven-year-old Newton, North Carolina resident Ken Charles Barger is accustomed to falling asleep with his beloved .38-caliber Smith & Wesson. When he was awakened by a phone call one night, he automatically put the “deadly toy” to his ear and pulled the trigger.
3. Insurance comes first
This is what a resident from Los Angeles reasoned as he was about to repair the roof of his house. He firmly secured the safety rope, and tied its other end to the bumper of a car parked in the yard. Just at this time his wife was going shopping. The car started moving, the man was torn off the roof and dragged to the first store, near which his wife stopped. And although he was saved this time, he died even more ridiculously. The toilet in his closet exploded when he threw away his cigarette butt. The wife, while refilling the lighter, spilled some flammable liquid inside. Fate or evil fate?
4. Deadly love for nature
A young botanist from California was hiking in a nature reserve on the rocky coast. Atlantic Ocean. The walk took a little longer. In order not to pollute the soil with body waste, the young man decided to urinate from a cliff into the sea, but could not resist and fell over a two-hundred-meter cliff and died.
5. Chasing the beautiful
In 2005, one middle-aged lady decided to take a walk in the mountains. On the way she caught her eye amazing beauty feather. She tried to lift it, but a strong gust of wind blew it towards the fence. The woman ran after him. As a result, she fell from a height of three hundred meters and died from a traumatic brain injury.
6. Woe from mind
2000, Philippines. A resident of Davao City decided to rob passengers on board the plane. He managed to bring a homemade parachute, grenades and a gun on board. He robbed passengers of $25,000 and demanded that the pilot lower the plane to a height from which he could jump. Jumping out of the plane, instead of a grenade, he threw a ring from it into the pilot's cockpit. In addition, the parachute never opened.
7. Prankster lawyer
A successful lawyer from Toronto, proving the strength of office windows, amused himself by running towards the window, scaring visitors to the office. However, the 24th attempt turned out to be fatal. The window broke, and the would-be joker made a fatal jump.
8. Saving drowning people is the work of...
A resident from Austria, having taken a fair amount of alcohol and deciding to go out for some fresh air, for some reason could not open the door of his apartment. Trying to crawl through a small window in the kitchen, he got stuck so that his head ended up in a sink full of water. Being quite drunk, he was unable to turn off the water and choked. It is paradoxical that the keys to the apartment were in his pocket.
9. There is strength - no need for intelligence
The Ukrainian fisherman decided not to waste time when catching fish with a fishing rod and threw a live electric cable into the river. When the fish surfaced, the unlucky fisherman went into the water to collect it, having first forgotten to turn off the voltage. As a result, he suffered the same fate as his own catch.
10. Revenge of the fish
Fisherman from South Korea was preparing his catch for sale and was about to gut the fish. However, while still alive, the fish suddenly swung its tail sharply and the knife intended for cutting hit the fisherman in the chest. He died on the spot.
11. Travelers to Hell
Four Chinese teenagers, having watched enough films about the supernatural, decided to “go on a journey to hell.” They ate a melon laced with rat poison and left a note promising to return if they didn't like it. Two out of four seemed to like it. Luckily, two were saved.
12. Oh sport, you...
A young gymnast celebrating her 17th birthday decided to demonstrate personal success in sports, making an impromptu trampoline out of a sofa. Getting excited, she flew out of the sixth floor window. A sad ending to the celebration.
13. Is curiosity not a vice?
Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City. A young girl decided to give up her life by jumping from a bridge. More than 50 onlookers gathered to watch this sad spectacle. As a result, the bridge failed total weight curious spectators and collapsed. Nine people died.
14. Forgetful skydiver
Experienced skydiver Ivan McGuire decided to film his jump over North Carolina from a height of 3000 m, taking his camera with him, but forgetting to put on a parachute. The ending is known.
15. Died at work
The owner of a funeral home from France, Marc Bourjat, was beaten to death by a pile of coffins that he was selling in his store. He was buried in one of them.
16. Killer tampons
Hampshire man Mark Gleeson decided to combat snoring by using feminine tampons by inserting them into his nostrils. The self-taught healer simply suffocated in his sleep.
17. Killer Help
A Belgian Air Force humanitarian mission in Sudan ended with the death of three local residents when food boxes dropped by the Belgian military fell on their heads.
18. Deadly theft
When hapless Cameroonian thief Henry M Bongo decided to steal a chicken, an angry crowd of locals forced him to eat everything he stole. As a result, the unfortunate thief died of asphyxia, choking on the feathers and bones of the bird.
19. Is greed not a vice?
Careless car enthusiasts often become Darwin Award winners. One American, who decided to sell his car, tried to pump out the remaining gasoline from the tank using a vacuum cleaner. A moment later there was an explosion. There was no car, no house, no garage left. The owner himself did not survive.
20. Bad habit
When driving a car, it is important to focus on the control itself, and not on your loved one. A certain young American had a bad habit of picking his nose while the car was moving. One day the car shook slightly, and he severely damaged a blood vessel with his finger. Bleeding began. When patrol officers noticed his parked car, the man was already dead. He bled to death.
21. Deadly bet
28-year-old mechanic from Moscow Sergei Tuganov moved to the USA. Once, having met two Russian young ladies, he made a bet with them that he could have sex for 12 hours straight. Because of a dispute over $5,000, the young man, in order not to “lose his face,” drank two packs of Viagra at once. His “triumph” lasted only a few minutes. He died of a heart attack.
22. Funny to death
50-year-old Alex Mitchell from King's Lynn laughed so hard at the jokes of his favorite BBC show in 1975 that his heart gave out and he died near the TV screen. Laughter and tears.
23. Weapon of Justice
Bonn resident Peter Gruber decided to rob the Museum of Art, but he panicked when he saw the museum guards and tried to escape. Sharply turning the corner, he accidentally stumbled upon the meter-long sword of the statue. Ironically, the exhibit was called “Weapons of Justice.”
24. Saving your favorite toy
A young French woman lost control of her car at speed and crashed into a tree. A minute before the tragedy, her favorite Tamagotchi toy squeaked sharply, demanding attention. The girl saved the life of the toy at the cost of her life.
In 2001, Steve Conner, a California zookeeper, fed an elephant 22 doses of a strong laxative. Deciding to see the result, he approached the elephant from behind and as a result was buried under a quintal of elephant dung.
26. Celebrated
Sweet old Debbie Milla was on her way to her 100th birthday party when her wheelchair was hit by a car carrying a birthday cake. Grandmother lived 99 years and 364 days. It's a shame to the point of tears.
27. Ended up in the wrong place
Young woman Megan Fry decided to play a prank on the police during training on a combat shooting simulator. She suddenly jumped out at them with a loud scream and was shot with 14 guns by the police, who mistook her for a target.
This, unfortunately, is far from full list the most ridiculous deaths in the world. Death, like birth, is a natural phenomenon. There is no need to rush her arrival. Don’t try to walk down Darwin’s “stairs” in the opposite direction, be attentive to yourself and those around you!
Everyone knows about the most prestigious award in the field of cinema - the Oscar. But in this article I would like to talk about anti-premiums, i.e. prizes for the worst or dubious achievements. So, the 8 most popular anti-premiums.
Anti-Prizes of the World
1. Ig Nobel Prize (Anti-Nobel Prize) - The Prize was established by Mark Abrahams and the humor magazine "Annals of Incredible Research" in 1991. This prize is awarded for dubious achievements. This award is presented at the beginning of October each year by the real winners Nobel Prize, and the awards ceremony takes place at Harvard.
2. Stella Prize - This prize is awarded for the most ridiculous court decision in the United States. It is named after Stella Liebeck, who in 1992 doused herself with hot coffee from McDonald's and sued him, thereby suing the fast food company for $2.9 million.
3. Golden Raspberry – anti-award, anti-Oscar. The award is given for achievements in the field of cinema. It was founded back in 1981 by American John Wilson. The nominations for this award are announced the day before the Oscars.
4. Silver Galosh - Russian anti-award in the field of show business. The award was established by Radio Silver Rain in 1996.
5. Darwin Award - An unofficial award for the most ridiculous death (or at least for the most ridiculous loss of reproductive function). The prize is awarded to people who died in the most ridiculous way, thereby leaving no offspring behind, thereby purifying the gene pool of humanity.
6. “Glass Bolt” Award - established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and awarded to Russian officials for the most idiotic and ridiculous decisions in terms of developing the city of Moscow. In 2012, the award became officially all-Russian.
7. Latern Rouge - the prize is awarded to the cyclist who takes the very last place in the Tour de France race. Translated as “Red Lantern”, this award is named after the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.
8. Paragraph – Literary anti-prize. Created in 2001 and awarded in the following categories: “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards). “Honorary Certificates” are also awarded.
The ceremony brought together authors who seriously studied issues that were more like a joke. The real prizes were given - a statuette and 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. It's actually not as much as it seems.
Not too scrupulous housewives already knew, and now science has confirmed: human saliva removes dirt better than a cleaner. Chemists from Portugal tried to clean paintings and gilded sculptures with various reagents from ammonia to toluene. But the old “spit and wipe” method gave the best results.
For 28 years now, Harvard University has been flying paper airplanes, fooling around, and giving out awards for the most ridiculous scientific achievements and muzzle laureates if their acceptance speech lasts more than a minute.
David Wortinger from the University of Michigan made a discovery that, as required by the rules of the Ig Nobel Committee, first made me laugh and then made me think. A trip to Luna Park will help remove kidney stones. One of his patients got rid of three stones at once when he rode a roller coaster.
“Big, powerful rides are not good. What people think. The higher the slide, the faster you fly along it, the better. Nothing like this. We found out that to influence the stones you need to drive slowly, no more than 50 kilometers per hour, but with sharp turns, and so that it shakes a lot. You need to get into the last carriage. Then the stones are crushed well,” said Ig Nobel Prize winner in medicine David Wortinger.
The experience of the Ig Nobel Prize laureates in biology was repeated by the Nobel Prize laureates and honorary guests of the ceremony. And now it has been proven twice: the fruit fly Drosophila can change the taste of wine by getting into it for just a few seconds.
The Nobel in Economics was awarded to a team from Canada, the USA, China and Singapore. Researchers asked disgruntled employees to take it out on a bad boss by transferring their emotions to a voodoo doll.
“People who took revenge on the boss-like doll felt relieved. For them, justice was restored,” explained Ig Nobel Prize laureate in economics Douglas Brown.
“Where is the economy?” - the journalist asked for clarification.
“We don’t even know ourselves. We thought they would give us the Peace Prize!” - answered the scientist.
James Cole from Great Britain proved that ancient people did not engage in cannibalism because of hunger. The calorie content of human meat is only 125 kilocalories, which is several times less than the calorie content of, for example, a mammoth. For his discovery, like all laureates, Cole received 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars.
“Well, since I’m a trillionaire now, I’ll probably retire. In general, Zimbabwe, in my opinion, has already switched to dollars. And it's about 30 cents in total. You can’t even buy a hamburger,” said James Cole.
Japanese Akira Horiuchi received an Ig Nobel for his study “Colonoscopy in sitting position" He is at personal experience I was convinced that performing this procedure while sitting is no less effective than traditionally lying down. And now, like every Ig Nobel laureate, he will be given the opportunity to give a lecture about it at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Already in early October, Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. And in history, by the way, there have been cases when Ig Nobel laureates also received a Nobel a few years later. Therefore, the ceremony in Cambridge traditionally ends with the words: if you are an Ig Nobel laureate, and especially if you are not, we wish you good luck next year!
An award or award is usually awarded on a competitive basis to a person or organization for outstanding results in a particular field of activity. Below is a list of the ten most famous awards in the world.
The ranking of the most famous awards opens with the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious US award in the fields of literature, journalism, music and theater. It was founded on August 17, 1903 by newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer. The prize has been awarded annually in twenty-one categories since 1917. The prize amount is $10,000.
MTV Video Music Awards is an annual award given by MTV for the creation of video clips. The ceremony was first held in 1984 in New York. The record holder for the number of figurines won, the so-called “Moonmanow”, is American singer Madonna, who has won 20 awards.
BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards are the UK's most prestigious annual award, awarded for achievements in pop music. The award was first presented in 1977 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee celebrations. Since 1982 it has been awarded annually. The record holder for the number of nominations is British singer Robbie Williams (17 BRIT Awards).
Seventh in the list of the most famous awards is the Grammy, an annual music award of the Recording Academy of America, founded on March 14, 1958. Awarded by voting in 78 categories across 30 musical genres. As of February 2009, a total of 7,578 awards had been given.
The Cannes Film Festival is an annual international film festival founded in 1946. Held at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. The most prestigious award given at the Cannes Film Festival in the category for best film is the Palme d'Or.
Fifth place in the list of the most famous awards in the world goes to the Golden Globe. This is an annual American award, awarded since 1944 for films and television films based on voting by approximately 90 international journalists based in Hollywood. The record holder for the number of nominations is Meryl Streep (29 awards).
BAFTA
BAFTA - independent Charitable organization, which supports, develops and promotes such areas of art as cinema, television and computer games. The organization was formed in 1947 under the leadership of David Lean. The first BAFTA Awards took place in 1948 in London. The winners receive a gold mask as a prize.
Third place in the list of the ten most famous awards in the world goes to the Booker Prize. This is the most prestigious literary award, given annually in the UK since 1969 for the best original novel written in the English language. The winner of the award receives £50 thousand.
Oscar
In second place in the list of the most famous awards in the world is the Oscar - the most prestigious American film award on the planet, awarded annually since 1929 in Los Angeles, at the Dolby Theater for various achievements in the film industry. From 1953 to the present, the ceremony has been broadcast on television in more than 200 countries. Walt Disney received the most Oscars (26 awards).
The Nobel Prize is an international annual prize awarded for outstanding Scientific research, revolutionary inventions or major contributions to culture or society. The prize was named after the Swedish chemist, engineer and inventor Alfred Nobel, who in his will ordered part of his capital to be awarded as a reward for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. Between 1901–2015 The Nobel Prize has been awarded to 870 laureates and 26 organizations.
Ig Nobel Prize
For achievements that make you laugh and then think
The awards are presented by real Nobel Prize winners, only with fake noses and makeup, and the recipients' speaking time is limited by Little Miss Sweetie Poo, who after 60 seconds says “Please stop, I'm bored!”
Since 1991, at the behest of founder Mark Abrahams and the scientific publication Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded along with the announcement of Nobel Prize laureates. Rarely does an anti-Nobel award express criticism; more often, it draws attention to work with a funny worded topic or a funny subject of research. For example, the research of two Austrian researchers who used mathematical methods to determine whether Sultan Ismail the Bloodthirsty of Morocco may have fathered 888 children between 1697 and 1727.
The medal parodies the Nobel Prize
Russian citizens received Ig Nobel several times. For example, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chemist and crystallographer Yuri Struchkov received a literature prize for publishing 948 scientific papers between 1981 and 1990, that is, one scientific article every 4 days. In 2012, our compatriots received three Ig Nobels. The owner of the Russian company SKN, Igor Petrov, received the Peace Prize for the synthesis of nanodiamonds from old ammunition; a prize in physics (“for research on how to carry coffee correctly so as not to spill it”) was awarded to former citizen of the Russian Federation, scientist Ruslan Krechetnikov (together with the American Hans Mayer); The prize in the field of psychology went to Tulio Guadelupe from the Institute of Psycholinguistics of the city of Nijmegen, representing Russia and Peru - for treatise"From the left angle, the Eiffel Tower appears shorter." In 2000, Andrei Geim, a native of the USSR, received the Ig Nobel Prize for his experiment with diamagnetic levitation (making a frog fly), and ten years later he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the practical production of graphene.
"Golden Raspberry"
For dubious achievements in the field of cinema
Sprawling and golden, just like the Oscars
The Golden Raspberry Awards were invented in 1981 by publicist John Wilson, author of a guide to the worst films. The name comes from English slang expression(to) blow raspberry (tongue) - snort in mockery by blowing into your protruding tongue. While the Oscars are drowning in tolerance and predictability, members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation, as they say, keep filmmakers in good shape. The 36th awards ceremony took place on February 27 on Broadway - as always, the day before the Oscars. As last year, nine failed nominations were diluted by the berry of mercy: the “redeeming raspberry” became an indulgence for the one who was able to bring his career out of a steep dive. Among the contenders were Night Shyamalan (for the film “The Visit”), Elizabeth Banks (for “Pitch Perfect 2”), Will Smith (role in “The Protector”). Sylvester Stallone received it for “Creed” (by the way, he was named the worst actor of the 20th century when summing up the film results of the century). Other favorites for the 36th Golden Raspberry ceremony included Jupiter Ascending and The Fantastic Four, but in the end, Fifty Shades of Gray took almost all the statuettes.
Runet Anti-Premium
For the brightest, unformatted and dubious projects of the Russian Internet
The informal anti-award was loved by users much more than its source - the Runet Prize, which, for example, did not award Pavel Durov for VKontakte, which is why he launched a DDoS attack on the site with a popular vote. The Runet Anti-Prize remains in the memory at least thanks to the nominations - risky, witty and surprisingly accurately showing key events. For example, in 2014, Lenta.ru won in the “Not a Runet Cake” category, Meduza debuted in the “Bombanulo!” section, and “Lentach” became a leader in the “BDSMM and other PR poses” category. Sites that won the anti-award regularly found themselves under the yoke of Roskomnadzor: for example, “Lurkomorye” (winner of 2014 in the “Underground” category) and RuTracker.org (nominee “Mom, I downloaded again in my sleep”), it is hardly possible in the same category note the social network “VKontakte”, where there is less and less pirated content, sidelong glances periodically catch the Kermlin Russia account (winner of the “Kitten named.GOV” nomination) and the public “The Decaying West” (“Fun of the Year”). The award did not survive until 2016.
Pigasus Award
For his contribution to the activities of pseudoscience and paranormal research
The Pigasus Award was created by James Randi, an illusionist, scientific skeptic and fighter against paranormal scammers. Back in the 1970s, Randy was involved with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of Paranormal Activity. The Pigasus Award is another achievement of Randy's in the fight against sorcerers and psychics. The name Pigasus itself is a derivative of “Pegasus” and pig, referring to the expression “when pigs fly” (“when the crayfish whistles on the mountain”). The ceremony takes place on April 1, and the prize is a flying pig on a stand, “which the winner takes by telekinesis.” The award has five categories in total: the scientist who did the biggest stupid thing (in 2012 - Stanislaw Burzynski for selling an expensive cancer drug); organizations - for supporting parapsychological research (in the same year - Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center for supporting the healing laying on of hands on the sick - “Therapeutic Touch”); Media - for approval paranormal phenomena as facts; to the performer who fooled greatest number of people; and finally, an award “for the most desperate refusal to face reality.”
Bent Spoon Award
Australian Paranormal Folly Award
Bent spoon given to Australian charlatans
A special anti-award from the Australian Skeptics Society, named after Uri Geller, who allegedly bent spoons through telekinesis. In 2013, the Bent Spoon Award was won by the Australian Chiropractic Association, which refused to insure its members, and in 2014 by Dr. Larry R. Marshall, President of the scientific organization CSIRO, - for supporting dowsing. The latest Bent Spoon winner is Australian celebrity chef and TV presenter Pete Evans, who was nominated for his praise of the Paleo Diet, a diet based on the supposed ancient diet of people during the Paleolithic.
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
For the strangest, funniest and most ridiculous book title
Detailed Guide on farting on a date received an award in 2014, although not only the title is outstanding - the topic of the book is worthy of a separate prize
The idea for the prize came from The Bookseller magazine and publishers Diagram Group, who wanted to draw attention to the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair. Since then, every year, with rare exceptions, a prize is awarded - a bottle of champagne or Bordeaux - to active readers who sent the strangest, funniest or most ridiculous title of a book that was published during the past year. The first nominee for the award was the non-fiction “Materials of the Second international conference by Naked Mice" (1978); Then the following books earned public recognition: “Madame as an Entrepreneur: Domestic Prostitution and Career Management” (1979), “Significant Moments in the History of Concrete” (1994), “The Joy of Sex. Pocket edition" (1997), "Knitting adventures with hyperbolic planes" (2009), "Managing dental clinic in Genghis Khan style" (2010) and many others. The most recent winner was Margaret Meps Schulte's Strangers Have the Best Candy (2015).
Bad Sex in Fiction Award
For Worst Erotic Scene in Literature
The winning scene features a "giggling snowball of total copulation" and a "sexually violent rollercoaster loop"
Until last year, the BSIFA prize was more of a local meme among readers of the Literary Review magazine, but in 2015, news of the award spread throughout the media when it was awarded to The Smiths singer Stephen Morrissey for his book The Lost List. The author described the plot of his book this way: “A team of American runners from the 70s accidentally kills another athlete, thus releasing a demon from him. This demon is the devil in the flesh, and every killer will die. But all this ends up being a ritual of exile, so the death at the very beginning of the book is just an illusion.” The author himself did not come to receive the prize in the form of a naked woman on an open book and did not comment on the situation.
"Paragraph"
Prize from the newspaper "Book Review" for dubious achievements in the field of book publishing
Not every anti-award has the budget for such a commemorative sculpture
It consists of a twice-broken pen in the shape of the letter Z on a stand, and is awarded in the nominations “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards), and for “especially cynical crimes” against Russian literature" give "Honorable illiteracy". “Illiteracy” was once awarded to Andrei Fursenko for education reform and to Konstantin Ernst with the wording “as the physical embodiment of the largest rating share of television, stultifying common man, separating him from books and reading, from any manifestation of culture.” In addition to them, Anatoly Fomenko has “Paragraph” for “New Chronology” (2004) and Boris Akunin for the book “History Russian state. From origins to Mongol invasion"(2014).
Turnip Prize
Parody of the Turner Prize - for the worst works of contemporary art
Shortlisted work for 2011. Called First Class Mail by TeamGB
In response to the Turner Prize jury's controversial decisions, the Turnip Prize organizers say: "You can submit any work to us as long as it sucks." At the same time, the leitmotif of the anti-prize is the hypothesis: “We know that this sucks, but is it art?” Before the final decision, each candidate receives an assessment of his creation: “not enough effort” and “isn’t it crap?” - make it to the finals, and works with the ratings “tried too hard” and “not shit enough” are eliminated. The 2003 winner was James Timms with his work "Take a Leaf from My Chopstick" (raw chicken in leaves). In 2007, the turnip award went to Bracey Vermin with his work “Tea P”, which consisted of several soaked tea bags laid out in the shape of the letter P. This year the winner was the artist Bonksy and his work “Dismal And” - an homage to Banksy with his thematic Dismaland Park, is a piece of wood with a sad muzzle 
Winning work in the form of an ampersand.
Location London, Great Britain
Years 1999 - present
Golden Fleece Award (1975–1987)
For grant-eating and stupid research
The first prize in 1975 was received by the US National Science Foundation for spending $84,000 on a laboratory study of the phenomenon of love. Later, NSF would again be a Golden Fleece Award winner for analyzing the aggression of moonfish, one of which drank tequila and the other rum. The US Department of Defense received an award for spending $3,000 on research that showed that soldiers should use an umbrella when it rains; Ronald Reagan - for spending $15.5 million from taxpayers' pockets (the money was needed for the re-inauguration). The Golden Fleece Prize was established by the American Democratic politician William Proxmire and was awarded until 1987.
Location Washington, USA
Years 1975–1987
Doublespeak Award
For the most cunning political rhetoric
This anti-prize, established by the National Council of Teachers in English, awarded for the most ambiguous statement. The very first was given to US Air Force press attaché David Opfer for calling the bombings in South-East Asia"air support". In 1986, the winners were NASA contractors who tried to hide the meaning of the Challenger shuttle disaster. The explosion was called an "anomaly", the bodies of the dead astronauts were called "the squad returning to Earth", and the coffins were called "crew containers". Interestingly, in England there is its own analogue of the anti-premium called. Among the champions of absurdity there are Naomi Campbell (“I love England, especially your national food - there’s nothing tastier than pasta"), Silvio Berlusconi (“I am truthful quite often”) and Donald Trump for recalling McCain’s Vietnam captivity (“He is not a war hero. He was a hero because he was captured. And I love people who were captured didn't take it").
Darwin Award
For idiocy. Posthumously
American Larry Walters took a balloon flight
This is one of the most cruel, famous and funny anti-prizes. Awarded annually to persons who have died or been deprived of the opportunity to have children due to stupidity. It grew out of an ancient usenet forum launched on August 7, 1985. Eight years later, in 1993, biology student Wendy Northcutt created a Darwin Award website and, that same year, began compiling obituary books for “human lemmings.” For the selection, Northcutt was guided by five rules: the nominee must die or be sterilized as a result of his actions, self-harm must be as stupid as possible, the person must harm himself on his own, and be over 18 years old and mentally healthy; finally, the incident must be verified. In 2014, a posthumous prize was awarded to a young magician from Spain who tried to use his body as a conductor to light a light bulb in his hand; In 2015, the Darwin Prize was won by a woman from South Africa, who fell off a cliff while trying to take a selfie.