The one thing I don't like about the Darwin awards, is that the featured players in the funny stories get killed. A register of those mental giants who go skinny dipping in park fountains, or get locked out of the house in the alltogether, would be very nice.
This having been said, I have our first nominee, courtesy of a friend who was a legal secretary.
This genius decided to rob a bank.
For a getaway car, he bought a gold Cadillac. Since he didn't want it traced back to him, he had his grandmother pay for it, with cash!
Then the genius collected his girlfriend, and told her they were going for a drive in his new car.
He stopped outside the bank, and told his girlfriend to wait in the car. He went in an robbed it, then he ran out, and across the street, and in and out of a store, to give himself an alibi. Then, since he didn't want to be identified by his clothes, he threw them out the car window, as they drove along the highway. He was apprehended almost immediately. My friend's boss represented the girlfriend, who was aquitted on all counts, since it's legal, in Pennsylvania, to date a moron. (Yes she did dump him!)