I've come to firmly believe that modern societal comforts - with a bit of help from legislation and the courts - have doomed the human natural selection process.
The guy cleaning his motorcycle in his living room - c'mon! Even without the spilled gas and the burning butt, this guy would have been "naturally selected" out of everyone else's way a hundred years ago. Alan, any chance he (1)didn't have homeowner's insurance, or (2) tried to litigate it into being someone else's fault?