Darwin Award ---May 2015

A DAREDEVIL pensioner died in a ball of flames when he jumped from a bridge during a stunt.

James Hickey, 73, leaped from the 500ft-high Perrine Bridge in Idaho, US, with his parachute purposely on fire intending to remove it before deploying a second chute.

But the experienced base jumper — who had successfully performed the same trick in a skydive — lost control and plummeted to his death in the Snake River below.

A coroner’s report said James, from California, died of blunt force trauma.