Maine could have picked up one, two, possibly even three Darwin Awards over the weekend.

Yep, when three men fell into a 60-foot gorge up in Alder Stream Township in the middle of the night Friday, we were looking pretty good.

But firefighters, EMTs and wilderness rescue teams saved them from themselves and their own stupidity.

And dashed our hopes of a Darwin Award.

Oh well. Not to worry.

Surely there will be more opportunities. As long as there are men, machines, nighttime, a good quantity of alcohol (not mentioned, but implied in this story), and a burning idea like, "Hey, whaddaya say we go..."

Glad you made it out boys. You were damn lucky.

And kudos to the rescue folks who always seem to get the tough job done, even when there's not much in the way of DNA involved.