What happened to evolution?

If my buddy Chuck Darwin was correct, weren't we were supposed to develop into more intelligent creatures over time?

A judge just awarded a couple $3 million in damages after they were attacked by tigers at African Lion Safari in 1996. The couple say they had their windows cracked open at first but had them completely up after an ostrich poked its beak into the vehicle. Sure. How did the tigers get at them? The jugde, and I use the word loosely, said that a tiger must have nudged the car, causing the guys arm, or some part of his body, to come into contact with the window switches inadvertently. Ummm, okay. Now, I've never been attacked by a tiger but has anyone, ever, accidently been nudged so that they accidentally opened their window? They must be sharing their windfall with this court jester?

He is getting $1.7 million in compensation. Apparently he is disfigured and can't work anymore. She is getting more than $800,000 in damages due to injury and for money she would have made as a stripper. She was just starting out in the field. Here's the judge again ... "She had all the necessary physical attributes to do this job — she was young, pretty, large-breasted, not overweight and had long hair." What the hell?!?!

My conclusion...it pays to be dumb. Having your windows opened while driving through the tiger "exhibit"; spilling hot coffee on your lap and getting paid handsomely for it; suing fast food establishments for making you fat; suing tobacco companies for making you ill.

I have done some dumb things in my life, as I'm sure we all have, (and if you haven't then you must be my parents) but nothing so stupid that I would get paid for it!