Darwin Winners

Evidently, American criminals just aren't smart enough to win awards anymore and the Darwin people had to go overseas to find stupid people:

• The winner for 2009 was a rare Double Darwin, says Wendy Northcutt of the Darwin Awards, and is awarded for a crime gone awry in Belgium.
  
  On Sept. 26, a pair of would-be thieves hatched a plan to withdraw cash from an ATM machine by using dynamite.
  
  "They overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion," the citation notes dryly. "The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in."

We're pretty sure we had a couple of potential nominees locally this year, but we haven't seen any Honorable Mentions popping up in the Darwin archives.