Another candidate for the Darwin Award....

[Dr Mordrid]

Originally posted by Kruzin
I nominate the carnival worker killed this past week.
He was lubricating the track on his rollercoaster while it was running.
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link:
http://www.komotv.com/stories/26666.htm

I nominate the guy who last summer was maintaining a kiddie roller coaster during operation in one of our local malls.

He tripped over his own feet, fell across the track and was decapitated by the lead cars in full view of about 40 little kids and their parents.

Dr. Mordrid

[cjolley]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
.. useless traitors...

Been reading Ms. Coulter again have we?
That will give you warts on your hands, you know.
chuck

[Dr Mordrid]

Originally posted by cking4
Which mall was that, Doc? I didn't hear about that...

Wonderland Mall in the J*****s restaurant & game room. The print/TV news didn't give the gory details, but radio did.

Wonderland is at Middlebelt and Plymouth roads. Close to you, yes?

Dr. Mordrid

[Kruzin]

The incident I mentioned also happened in front of a couple hundred kids/parents/fair-goers the ride was operating when it happened.

[paulcs]

Originally posted by gt40
you swim with the seals,
you sleep with the fishes.

I'm not sure if this woman was actually frolicking with the seals. Apparently, she was a triathlete, and she did this swim several mornings a week. It was part of her routine, and she had been doing it for years. The damn seals are all over the place. We had a bunch of them take over a famous San Francisco pier several years ago. They just showed up one day, and they wouldn't leave. They're a tourist attraction now.

Shark attacks are by no means common, but they do happen from time to time. There have been 106 since the Department of Fish and Game started recording them in 1952. Ten of them were fatal. Great whites were responsible for nine of the ten fatal attacks.

The Pacific Coast is not as swimmer-friendly as the Atlantic. There's no Gulf Stream, so it's really cold, and it is often not "pacific". I strongly suspect the majority of shark attack victims were actually experienced, strong swimmers and surfers, and not stupid newbies. By all accounts, this woman was not stupid. She was unlucky.

Paul

[paulcs]

By the way, I've lived near the Pacific for the better part of a decade -- I can step outside and see it -- but I've never stuck a toe in it. It's very cold. Also, the seals and sharks pee in it.

Eight-legged freaks on land. Finned freaks in the water. The Terminator in the state house. What next?

I'm thinking earthquake.

Paul

[Technoid]

Originally posted by paulcs
By the way, I've lived near the Pacific for the better part of a decade -- I can step outside and see it -- but I've never stuck a toe in it. It's very cold. Also, the seals and sharks pee in it.

Eight-legged freaks on land. Finned freaks in the water. The Terminator in the state house. What next?

I'm thinking earthquake.

Paul

ROTFLMAO

[Brian R.]

I was born in Ypsilanti, but never lived anywhere near there. Is it famous for anything?

[Brian R.]

[Marshmallowman]

If you see seals in the water, you NEVER go swimmimg. If she did not see them then shes's unlucky, if she saw before getting in shes a darwin candidate.

Large sharks(great whites) follow seal colonies,

[paulcs]

Yes they do. I'm sure she knew this. She very well could have been asking for it. She wasn't stupid. She may have been nuts.

Apparently, she did the sort of stuff I would do only immediately after surviving a plane crash: hiking in Peru, swimming in the Pacific, etc. If she intentionally decided to go swimming with the seals and sea lions, she had to know the risks. And she chose to ignore them.

Paul

[paulcs]

By the way, I'd just like to add that the damn seals and sea lions in San Francisco are intruding upon my natural habitat. When it comes to the seals and sea lions, I root for the sharks.

Paul

[paulcs]

Originally posted by paulcs
Eight-legged freaks on land. Finned freaks in the water. The Terminator in the state house. What next?Paul

CANADIAN GEESE!

Don't even ask.

Paul

[Sethos]

bada bum bum bum, and another one bites the dust...

~Sethos