Last year's Darwin Awards get the hairy eyeball from the ever-vigilant rumor buster Snopes. The result? The guy who supposedly died wearing a schoolgirl outfit with a gas mask wired to his anus is so far unproven, giving us a de facto green light for our weekend plans. The demise of the other 6 award winners from last year all remain unproven too, except for one:

"Of the seven gruesome accounts given in the Darwin Awards 2004 e-mail, six fail to check out, but one is real. The lone entry that stands up to scrutiny is the sorry tale of a Reston, Virginia, man who foolishly taped a selection of store-bought bungee cords together, then used them to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle. "

Make your own Bungee cord? This is why the Scottish should avoid the extreme sports.

The 2004 Darwin Awards email [Snopes]