The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek way in which certain people are honored for improving the human gene pool by means of some fatal and stupid act, such as a too-long bungee cord. Some are famous, as the lone survivor who earned the an honorable mention, Larry Walters. He is the guy who in 1982 used helium balloons to fly high in the sky (16,000 feet). His plan was to use a shotgun to one-by-one deflate the balloons, but he dropped his shotgun. As I understand, he eventually had to be rescued from electrical and telephone wires. Once rescued, he was arrested.

If I were on the nominating committee, I would name Randy Lee Tenley, from my home state of Montana. In 2015 he was trying to create a big foot (Sasquatch) sighting, using a “Ghillie Suit, seen to the left. Such a suit is a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble the background environment such as foliage.

It worked very well for Tenley, who stepped out on a highway. Because he was so well camouflaged, drivers could not see him. He was hit by a car, and then run over by another car. I assume alcohol was involved.

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