There’s a reason that the Darwin Awards exist. To qualify, one has to play a stupid game that awards stupid prizes and, in so doing, remove one’s self permanently from the gene pool, and in so doing, improve the human race. Note that the stupid prize doesn’t have to involve a fatal mistake; one can remove one’s self permanently from the gene pool by losing the capacity to reproduce by a more… local injury. At any rate, those are the rules, and on Monday, we read that a 26-year-old British “influencer” seeking a noteworthy social media stunt played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.
A daredevil British influencer has died after falling from Spain‘s highest bridge.
The 26-year digital creator is said to have plunged from the 630ft Castilla-La Mancha bridge in Talavera de la Reina a 90-minute drive south-west of Madrid early this morning over the Tagus River as he climbed it to…
