Each year, the Darwin Awards honors those who "improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it." These comedy-centric awards generally spotlight individuals whose "duh" mistakes resulted in their deaths. The winner of the 2009 Darwin Awards goes to a pair of bank robbers in Belgium.

"The city of Dinant is the backdrop for this rare Double Darwin Award. Two bankrobbers attempting to make a sizeable withdrawal from an ATM died when they overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion. The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in. Nobody else was in the building at the time of the attack.

Wow. To see the list of runners-up, including the first ever female Darwin award recipient (a woman who drove a moped into flood waters, was rescued and jumped BACK in to get her bike), visit darwinawards.com.

via Neatorama