{"id":16967,"date":"2015-01-10T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=16967"},"modified":"2015-01-10T13:59:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:59:41","slug":"darwin-awards-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=16967","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Awards 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, competition is hotting up already for the 2015 Darwin Awards. This <a title=\"Search for two men in Brighton feared drowned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-sussex-30759090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story on the BBC<\/a> skirts around the details, but The Independent apparently <a title=\"Search called off for men swimming in sea off Brighton coast as 'no chance of finding them alive'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/search-called-off-for-men-swimming-in-sea-off-brighton-coast-as-no-chance-of-finding-them-alive-9969652.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calls it like it is<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Brighton Pier and bad weather\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/394;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Brighton Pier and bad weather\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/brighton_pier.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"394\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>Two men are almost certainly dead after going swimming in the sea in Brighton. If that wasn\u2019t bad enough, consider that they were in their 20s, had been drinking, and decided on this seemingly clever course of action at around 1am. And if you still think it sounds OK, consider also that there were force 9 gales &#8211; the sea tends to become a little unpredictable when it\u2019s that windy.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the BBC version, a separate Brighton incident is reported where an 18-year old deliberately went into the sea at 9am. He got out again.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to feel any sympathy whatsoever for any of these morons. Coastguard staff could (and still could) have died, just because of these juvenile prats and their undiagnosed learning disabilities. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> An <a title=\"One body found and another feared drowned in Brighton 'dare'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-sussex-30762268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update to the story suggests<\/a> that it was a \u201cdare\u201d. In some respects, that makes it an even more stupid act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, competition is hotting up already for the 2015 Darwin Awards. This story on the BBC skirts around the details, but The Independent apparently calls it like it is. Two men are almost certainly dead after going swimming in the sea in Brighton. If that wasn\u2019t bad enough, consider that they were in their 20s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}