Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

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Again?! Is there some kind of reverse Darwin award for doing the most stupid shit and somehow not dying?

Isn't that basically what evolution is?

True, but now and then, stupid shit by stupid people pays off:

  • "Let's use this raft and head for open waters" -> discovers hawaii
  • "I'm sick of foraging. Imma dive into the water and pry open that thing on the rock down there" -> Oysters
  • "Why the fuck are you burning perfectly good mammoth?" -> BBQ

The idea is that you should die and not further your genes if you do such idiotic things (that's the premise of the Darwin awards), this guy is very stubbornly not dying!