Darwin Awards for sky shooters

Celebratory gunfire is an idiotic practice that results in many innocent deaths. According to Wikipedia 38 people died from random falling bullets in Los Angeles between 1985 and 1992. Celebratory gunfire in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in 1991 caused 20 deaths.

We saw a lot of this stupid practice on television lately in Libyan war. I remember watching it and thinking that these idiots were not only wasting ammunition they may later need, but could also get innocent people killed.


Now a "dof" (dof - Afrikaans term for dumb) rebel "celebrated" by firing an anti-aircraft cannon into the sky near Brega in Libya while a NATO warplane was patrolling the area. As anyone with half a brain would have predicted, the pilot "retaliated" and bombed the terrain, killing 16 rebels. In a just world the shooter would have been one of them and would have earned himself a Darwin Award. The Darwin Award is a satirical award given to those who most stupidly get themselves killed and thus remove themselves from the human gene pool to the genetic advantage of the rest of humanity.