A cute stunt, or astute...

A student died after being hurled by a catapult in an extreme sports stunt, an inquest has been told.

Obviously with the season hotting up competition is getting fiercer in the Darwin Awards.

Oxford University student Kostydin Yankov, 19, suffered multiple injuries when he missed a net after being flung from a medieval-style catapult, in an appalling example of just how stupid intelligent people can be.

Mr Yankov [sic] was part of the university extreme sports club - the Oxford Stunt Factory.

The inquest, which is expected to last for three days, was adjourned until Tuesday.

Mr Yankov was a first year student of bio-chemistry, not Mechanical Engineering or Divinity then.