Honoring Charles Darwin, the father of
evolution, Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene
pool--by removing themselves from it.

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1999 Darwin Award Winner Unconfirmed by Darwin

(16 August 1999, Germany) A hunter from Bad Urach was shot dead by his own dog on Monday. The 51-year-old man was found sprawled next to his car in the Black Forest. A gun barrel was pointing out the window, and his bereaved dog was howling inside the car. The animal is presumed to have pressed the trigger with its paw. Police have ruled out foul play. Since it happened in a hunting preserve, does the dog get the head mounted on a wall in its doghouse?

(1991, Nicosia, Cyprus) Under similar circumstances, an Iranian hunter was shot to death near Tehran by a snakePROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN — Michelle Dutton's walls crumbled, sinkholes opened up in her yard and her driveway cracked. Evette Simmons came home to discover a wall of her brownstone had been painted black. Elgin Elias' house is shifting on its foundations.

The three women say developers started doing construction next door, and they watched conditions in their homes deteriorate. Despite reporting the damage to the city, hiring lawyers and pleading with developers to stop, Dutton, Simmons and Elgin are all still waiting for their property to be repaired. Dutton, 59, who has owned her red brick house on East 31st Street near Church Avenue, in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, for 31 years, said cracks first appeared in her driveway in 2016 as construction workers tore down the two-family house next door.

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