Nelson Rocks Death at Via Ferrata

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really pretty place!
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Dolly Sods. Sounds like a snack cake for some reason
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Post by Steve »

Here a great race through parts of the Sods if you're interested

www.wvmtr.org/Highlands%20Sky/highlands_sky_40_mile.htm
I see they are still lopping off mountains in Eastern Kentucky. Electricity isn't cheap.
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Damn dude, that's pretty fucking cold. A woman dies because of a stupid mistake and all you can say is "gee I hope she didn't reproduce?"
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Yes. Haven't you read any of the Darwin Awards books? They are full of idiots killing themselves.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

We salute the improvement of the human genome
by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it...
ensuring that the next generation is one idiot smarter.
Of necessity, this award is generally bestowed posthumously.
The theory of evolution is just as stupid as the theories of gravity and electromagnetism.
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(August 2006, Libreville, Gabon) In August, a congregation's 35-year old pastor insisted one could literally walk on water, if only one had enough faith. Big and bold was his speech. He extolled the heavenly power possessed by a faithful man with such force that he may well have convinced himself.

Whether or not he believed in his heart, his sermons left room for only shame should he leave his own faith untested. Thus, the pastor set out to walk across a major estuary, the path of a 20-minute ferry ride. But the man could not swim.

Lacking the miraculous powers of David Copperfield, let alone holy Jesus Christ, this ill-fated cleric found only a Darwin Award at the end of his final path.
The theory of evolution is just as stupid as the theories of gravity and electromagnetism.
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(7 March 2005, Vietnam) Nguyen, 21, had been drinking with friends in Hanoi, when he pulled out an old detonator he had found. It was about six centimeters long and eight centimeters in diameter, with two wires hanging out. Because it was old and rusty, Nguyen said, it couldn't explode. His friends disagreed.
To prove his point, Nguyen put the detonator in his mouth and asked his friend to plug the dangling wires into a 220-volt electrical receptacle.

Turns out Nyugen was wrong!

The victim had little time to reflect on his mistaken, or whether 220 volts alone could have been fatal. According to police, "the explosion blew out his cheeks and smashed all his teeth." He died on the way to the hospital.
The theory of evolution is just as stupid as the theories of gravity and electromagnetism.
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(2003, Australia) Parents often warn that firecrackers can blow your hand off, but as a 26-year-old Australian learned, they can also remove your gonads from the gene pool. An ambulance rushed to an Illawarra park after receiving reports that a man was hemorrhaging from his behind. The mercifully unidentified man had placed a lit firecracker between the cheeks of his buttocks, stumbled, and fell upon it.
"We do caution people against these acts," said Acting Senior Sergeant John Klepczarek of the local police.

Emergency surgeon Dr. McCurdie said the resulting wound looked like "a war injury." The explosion was forced upward, "blasted a great hole in the pelvis, ruptured the urethra, and injured muscles," rendering the man incontinent as well as sexually dysfunctional. He survived to tell the tale, making him eligible for the dubious honor of a Living Darwin Award.
The theory of evolution is just as stupid as the theories of gravity and electromagnetism.
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Post by Huggybone »

Whatever. I still think thats pretty cold.
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Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises. Not incontinent, but the other part.

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