I don't know what you think the Darwin Awards are, but I'm curious what you first thought, so please let me know.
What the Darwin Awards actually are is an award given to people who do something stupid and remove themselves from the gene pool. To be more specific, there are five requirements that must all be met: They must be removed from the gene pool, they must be the cause of the incident, they must be exceedingly stupid, they must be adults, and the event must be verified somehow. People can either win outright, or just be honorable mentions if they survive. There are some, however, that have managed to get themselves removed from the gene pool elsewise, such as one guy that fried his testicles by shooting himself in the upper thigh with a taser, while alone.
The Darwin Awards started in 1993, when a biochemist from Stanford started collecting stories of dumb deaths, which led to the collection she has now. There are a lot of them, and more added all the time. It's gathered a rather large following, especially among those that have darker humors or laugh at the ridiculousness of humanity. These are not stories for those with hope for humanity, so keep that in mind. If you'd rather not go online for them, they also have several books out with their greatest hits.
For a few examples:
A guy needed to change a lightbulb that was 30 feet off the ground, and he was driving a forklift that could lift things about 8 feet into the air, so he stacked up 37 pallets to be able to reach the lightbulb. As anyone who has ever dealt with those pallets would know, those things aren't exactly a steady stack. So, no surprise when they fell over and killed the guy.
An honorable mention. A guy wondered what it was like to get shot, so he shot himself in the leg. He then had to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital, where he was treated. Once he was healed up, he was curious if it would feel the same, so he shot himself again. He didn't die, but the stupidity shown is...special.
A lovely old man decided to set up a security system for his shop, which kept getting burglarized. Instead of cameras, he laid out thin copper wires attached to a gun. Unfortunately, no thieves came that night. Instead, he triggered it himself in the morning. Oops.
Not all of them are funny, but there are a bunch that are. Just be careful that you don't read too many at a time, because they can lead to a loss of faith in humanity, a worse opinion of people as a whole, or an inflated sense of your own intelligence.
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