Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
The Daily Cardinal Est. 1892
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Weekly Darwin Award

This Week's Winner: Two drunks were goofing around, when one challenged the other to shoot him with cigarette butts 'to see what it would feel like.' His friend obligingly loaded an antique rifle with cigarette butts, placing black powder behind the butts to make sure they left the barrel of the gun.  

 

 

 

He then shot his friend from a distance of seven feet. The projectiles penetrated the ribcage of the 31-year-old who had issued the challenge, and he died of three cigarette butts to the heart.  

 

 

 

Enjoy what you're reading? Get content from The Daily Cardinal delivered to your inbox
Support your local paper
Donate Today
The Daily Cardinal has been covering the University and Madison community since 1892. Please consider giving today.

Powered by SNworks Solutions by The State News
All Content © 2025 The Daily Cardinal