Man survives leap into lion's den

[virividox]

if he died, he gets my vote for 2004 darwin award...

i wonder why they put high walls and metal bars between us and the lions...must be to keep us away from them

 

[kettle]

he'd have got my vote if he'd have gone in wearing a pork chop waist coat

 

[jayscheuerle]

Originally posted by kettle
he'd have got my vote if he'd have gone in wearing a pork chop waist coat

Someone's been watching a little too much Jackass.

 

[topicolo]

Originally posted by jayscheuerle
Hah!! Most civilized societies do their darnedest to make sure that "survival of the fittest" has no play whatsoever. In fact, the dumber you are, the more likely you are to have a whole litter of kids (starting when you're a kid yourself) to pass on your dumb-ass genes to. It could be argued that civilization has rendered the benefits of positive evolutionary changes mute. Civilization has probably done more for the propagation of negative traits within a half-dozen generations than natural selection would do for positive traits within 10,000 years.

It's like we've created Bizarro-world X-men...

Isn't that a little...uber right winged? Sure the lower classed people have more kids and seem to score lower on standardized tests, but if you're worried about going hungry every day or your chances of being shot, it doesn't really help with improving your score of the gamut of aptitude tests. Environment does play a big role in this, although I still think that lion guy was just plain stupid.