THE MARTYR: GIVING THE DARWIN AWARD A WHOLE NEW MEANING.

Com algum atraso, excerto da última coluna do físico Robert Park:

"Two years ago on board a Northwest Airlines flight en route to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear. The flight from Amsterdam was just moments from landing when Abdulmutallab tried to detonate the bomb in his pants. It failed to go off, but his pants caught fire. Passengers jumped him when they saw smoke and flames. At a hospital after landing Abdulmutallab was treated for burns to his uh, groin. Yesterday, in a Federal Court in Detroit, Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty in the attempted murder of 289 fellow passengers. He said he targeted the U.S.-bound flight at the urging of Anwar al-Awlaki. The episode will no doubt be immortalized in a new volume of the brilliant “Darwin Awards,” created by Wendy Northcutt, that “commemorates individuals who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it”, or in this case, removes their gene-delivery device, from it."

Robert Park