Darwin Awards are awarded posthumously to those people that have done humanity the greatest service in weeding themselves from the gene pool. Last year’s winners are a pair of robbers with no concept of explosives’ scale:

Two bankrobbers attempting to make a sizeable withdrawal from an ATM died when they overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion. The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in.

One died after being brought to the hospital from massive head trauma; the other was found buried in the wreckage sometime later. And they were apparently pretty rich as it stands — their getaway car was a BMW. Protip, rich folks: steal in a white-collar manner, like pretty well every other rich person on the planet, and you won’t have to worry about overestimating how much dynamite it takes to crack a safe.

Hat tip to Ananova for covering it.