Two bank robbers have been declared winners of the 2009 Darwin Awards after they blew themselves up while trying to open a cash machine. The Belgian pair used so much explosive that they destroyed the whole bank building. When the police arrived at the scene, they found one of them with severe head injuries, and the second one’s body was excavated from the debris.
Wendy Northcutt, the founder of the awards, said the award is given to those “doing the most to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it.