Another Darwin Award Candidate from China

Amidst all the depressing news surrounding us it is sometimes necessary to feature something, well, completely silly. I couldn’t call this only in China (see the previous post on these lines here) as people all over the world do stupid stuff and put it on the internet. Here’s a young Chinese guy who says he’s just bought a bazillion volt personal protection stun gun thingy and then proceeds to demonstrate it on himself. The totally ridiculous video can be viewed here. Thanks to Kaiser Kuo over at Ogilvy China Digital Watch for tipping us off about this particular fellow, who apparently has achieved the web stardom he sought and followed up the shock stunt (he says he was knocked out for 6 hours, which puts the whole clip in doubt: if it was that strong a shock, he’d probably be dead) by spraying himself in the face with bug spray. I’ll refrain from linking to that particular gem.