http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/18/balcony.death.ap/index.html
gets my vote for darwin awardee for 2005
gets my vote for darwin awardee for 2005
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Darwin awardee 2005
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What if it was foul play.
"Just before she fell, she had called out to a friend, "Watch to see what I can still do," a police report said. Foul play is not believed to be involved, officials said."
Instead what if she called out to her supposed-friend, "Stop pushing me!"
"Just before she fell, she had called out to a friend, "Watch to see what I can still do," a police report said. Foul play is not believed to be involved, officials said."
Instead what if she called out to her supposed-friend, "Stop pushing me!"
emw said:
It doesn't take much of a fall to kill you, if you hit your head. In fact, if you fell to the floor from a standing position and didn't put your arms out, you might sustain fatal trauma (kids, DON'T try this at home).
This is not that bad. Google for Freerun and you will see people doing way more dangerous stunts. With proper training, handastand like this arent dangerous at all and in the article there is no mention of the athletic skills.
The only weird thing is that its a girl, not a boy! I totaly see myself doing that kind of thing!
So far I have done:
- jump numerous times from roof to roof
- jump from roof to pool (inbetween distance was about 9feet)
- climb super high tree
- rock climb free style (no rope or any thing)
- gun fight with my friend with bb guns (that was very stupid)
- spliting shotgun sheels to get the black powder so I could make rockets
Most of these things were done before I was 18 and I would probably never do them again, I think I have wasted all my 'spare lives' doing these things and I would not want my name associated with the Darwins award in anyways!
The only weird thing is that its a girl, not a boy! I totaly see myself doing that kind of thing!
So far I have done:
- jump numerous times from roof to roof
- jump from roof to pool (inbetween distance was about 9feet)
- climb super high tree
- rock climb free style (no rope or any thing)
- gun fight with my friend with bb guns (that was very stupid)
- spliting shotgun sheels to get the black powder so I could make rockets
Most of these things were done before I was 18 and I would probably never do them again, I think I have wasted all my 'spare lives' doing these things and I would not want my name associated with the Darwins award in anyways!
What an idiot. But really we all know people like this. Hey, watch me run across this freeway...
mkaake said:natural selection at work, not evolution
Call me crazy but I thought natural selection was fundamental to the theory of evolution.
emw said:
Key words... "athletic enough to do handstands on railings"... seems to me this person wasn't fantastic at this.
Blackheart said:
sure it's fundamental to the theory of evolution, but that doesn't mean that events of natural selection are evolution
anyhew, pretty stupid. i think if I wanted to show someone that I could do a handstand, i might do it on my bed, or in the living room... deff. not on the handrailing of a second story balcony...
mkaake said:sure it's fundamental to the theory of evolution, but that doesn't mean that events of natural selection are evolution
... touché...
mkaake said:sure it's fundamental to the theory of evolution, but that doesn't mean that events of natural selection are evolution
anyhew, pretty stupid. i think if I wanted to show someone that I could do a handstand, i might do it on my bed, or in the living room... deff. not on the handrailing of a second story balcony...
Reminds me of the old Bill Hicks rant about how acid don't kill people stupid kills people. Why do people who take acid and believe they can fly climb the stairs and jump off the roof instead of proving it more convincingly by takeing off from the ground and flying up to the roof?
