Short of a Darwin

I can't approve of the Darwin awards (so called because they are supposed to recognise a version of natural selection where people killed because of their own foolish actions remove themselves from the gene pool), because accidental death is just not funny even if the circumstances are potentially comic..

But one of the incidents shortlisted in this year's awards involved no fatality so I'm going to risk recounting it:

Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local river bridge. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable, lay nearby. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle.. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never located.

Other foolish acts short of a grisly end are recounted here