The Dangers of Spitting Contests

We may have our winner for this month's Darwin Award.

A SWISS man died when he fell from a hotel balcony during a spitting match with a friend, a Swiss newspaper has reported.

The daily Blick said the 29-year-old man took a run-up from inside the room so he could spit further, but lost his balance and plummeted 6.4m to the street below.

He died in hospital.

Oops.

Meanwhile, we thought we had a worthy candidate, but this guy lived.

A young man has been left permanently paralysed from the neck down in the latest "tombstoning" tragedy.

Steven Andrews, 25, says he wished he had died after the drunken stunt in which he jumped 25ft into three feet of water.

Yesterday, his devastated mother warned others against the activity, which has already caused several deaths across Britain.

Now it doesn't take a genius to know if you dive into three feet of water from a 25-foot height, you'll likely have some physical ailments.

If you live, that is.