Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sanders.andrew Andrew Sanders

    Unless he’s dead, its only an Honorable Mention.

    • http://www.facebook.com/diegovh Diego Hernandez

      Or neutered. That counts too. 

      While boingboing’s error is egregious, I was rather relieved to see that they weren’t taking death-or-dismemberment that lightly. 

    • welcomeabored

      There’s plenty of room at the top for The Stupidity Awards.  The winners though are usually politicians and actresses.  Go figure.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Stupidity_Awards

  • franko

    i thought to “win” the darwin award, you had to be killed. i think he was just a hopeful contender.

    • http://nefariousnewt.blogspot.com NefariousNewt

       That’s why he’s just a “contender” – he didn’t try hard enough to “win.”

      • Boundegar

        Yet.

  • http://twitter.com/shadowKFC Shadow KFC

    While mildly amusing, this is not valid for a Darwin award, where the rules stipulate that you have to take yourself out of the genepool, due to huge stupidity.
    So unless he got his gentlemen’s jewels squashed or died afterwards this is not Darwin award material

    • traalfaz

      You also have to die or be rendered incapable of reproducing before you actually reproduce.

      • spejic

        What if you were so publicly embarrassed that no one of the complimentary reproductive gender would acquiesce to engage in coitus or consent to donate the respective gamete for artificial fertilization?

  • winkybb

    Agree that this is not likely to be in the running for a Darwin Award.

    It is just another example of the idiocy of trying to make a reporter part of the news, rather than just a reporting on it. All these “pieces to camera” and “live crosses” where some vapid talking head just blabbers about what we can see for ourselves is beyond useless. Do the blabbering from the studio. Which is bad enough.

    • http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul

      In fact, in this age of miracle and wonder, we have remote cameras.

      I just wish there were really deep lens hoods on some of the web cams so that something other than water on the lens is visible during storms.

      The worst yahoo I saw during the coverage was the dipshit on the jet ski photobombing the news cameras.

    • Selena60

      Unless it’s Wolf Blitzer. Then I’m all for it.

  • Adora Tsang

    I have the feeling that he can still win in the future.

  • embryoconcepts

    Obviously, he’s from a place where they don’t understand the power of hurricanes or…oh.  Never mind.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/CMEW227COJ3BBIYRFUS7RUJ7ZU WWGGD

    Minutes later he was hit by a garbage can full of sand. Seriously.  And he lived…not eligible for a Darwin at this time.

  • picaflor

    Death or serious injury is bound to happen eventually with one of these reporters. 

  • http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin

    HEADLINE CORRECTED THANKS TEAM

  • Steve White

    Before I even watch this – I have to say that looks like Bigfoot.

    • ChicagoD

      It is. With a microphone.

  • Pasketti

    Here’s Geraldo Rivera doing the same thing for Hurricane Ike in 2008.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FziScjyf4Ic

    As to why they keep doing it, that’s how Dan Rather got his big break.  And if it worked for him…

  • Guest

    I saw on two other channels how reporters obviously felt the need to step into the water to provide infotainment ambience. It’s somewhat unsettling.

  • noah django

    I’m Ted Scouten. People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks. Years later, a doctor will tell me that I have an I.Q. of 48 and am what some people call mentally retarded.