Earning a Darwin Award

[MichaelWinicki]

This certainly qualifies...


A woman fatally shot her boyfriend in a YouTube stunt to "boost her online profile".

Monalisa Perez from Minnesota claimed after being charged in the shooting that it was a stunt gone badly wrong.

Ms Perez, who is pregnant, was charged on Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Pedro Ruiz III.

According to a criminal complaint, 19-year-old Ms Perez told authorities Mr Ruiz wanted to make a YouTube video of her shooting a bullet into a book he was holding against his chest.

She says she fired from about a foot away and then fled the house, screaming.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-woman-shoots-boyfriend-dead-065439480.html

 

[diefree666]

that is up there. BUT not really a contender for the all time prize.

 

[hairic]

This certainly qualifies...


A woman fatally shot her boyfriend in a YouTube stunt to "boost her online profile".

Monalisa Perez from Minnesota claimed after being charged in the shooting that it was a stunt gone badly wrong.

Ms Perez, who is pregnant, was charged on Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Pedro Ruiz III.

According to a criminal complaint, 19-year-old Ms Perez told authorities Mr Ruiz wanted to make a YouTube video of her shooting a bullet into a book he was holding against his chest.

She says she fired from about a foot away and then fled the house, screaming.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-woman-shoots-boyfriend-dead-065439480.html

He already reproduced, he does not qualify; he achieved genetic success.

 

[timb2]

I remember reading I believe about a German serial killer who wanted to eat someone and he actually put an ad in a newspaper and some doofus agreed to it and the killer killed and ate him.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

I remember reading I believe about a German serial killer who wanted to eat someone and he actually put an ad in a newspaper and some doofus agreed to it and the killer killed and ate him.

 

[DallasEast]

Previous ideas considered but rejected:

• Run over by a car
• Walk off a mountain cliff
• Jump from a plane without a parachute
• Swim with great white sharks without a cage
• Drink a gallon of bleach
• Lay inside an operational junk car compactor

My guess he was gonna die soon anyway.

 

[Seven]

.45 caliber thru a phone book from 3 feet away......and they dont sell yard darts anymore. Gee, wonder why?

Definite Darwin runner up.

 

[JoeKing]

While this was indeed a stupid stunt, it does not qualify for the Darwin Award. The award recognizes individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions... which is not the case in this story.

 

[Seven]

While this was indeed a stupid stunt, it does not qualify for the Darwin Award. The award recognizes individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions... which is not the case in this story.

"Ms Ruiz said that her nephew had told her he wanted to do the stunt "because we want more viewers, we want to get famous".

Pretty much an individual action...................verbal, but his choice.

Had he not said "shoot me with a gun while I hold up a book"...................I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have shot him, with a gun.......while he held up a book.

 

[Silver Surfer]

.45 caliber thru a phone book from 3 feet away......and they dont sell yard darts anymore. Gee, wonder why?

Definite Darwin runner up.

I read that the gun was actually a .50 caliber Desert Eagle.

 

[Silver Surfer]

"Ms Ruiz said that her nephew had told her he wanted to do the stunt "because we want more viewers, we want to get famous".

Well, he got what he wanted. He's famous alright!

 

[Seven]

I read that the gun was actually a .50 caliber Desert Eagle.

Yes it was. I was wrong.

That desert eagle is a friggin hand cannon.

 

[Kevinicus]

"Ms Ruiz said that her nephew had told her he wanted to do the stunt "because we want more viewers, we want to get famous".

Pretty much an individual action...................verbal, but his choice.

Had he not said "shoot me with a gun while I hold up a book"...................I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have shot him, with a gun.......while he held up a book.

But his genetics survive.