worse than a climbing accident?

Post by **Paul3eb** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:07 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html

that's pretty bizarre

Post by **diggum** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:12 pm

Sounds like Dr. Love did an outstanding job during the reattachment surgery.

Post by **longlegsrule** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:53 pm

wow

Post by **marathonmedic** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:53 pm

How unlucky do you have to be or how manky does that wall have to be?

Post by **Legion** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:02 pm

holy shit - a ten year old that can dunk!

Post by **marathonmedic** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:46 pm

Um, how high was the rim? And was there a trampoline under it? After all, it was at a birthday party. Does gravity work the other way in Australia? So many questions...

Post by **Alan Evil** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:53 pm

Yeah, I mean that opposite swirling toilet effect combined with the fact most of those Aussies are superwhite leads me to question the veracity of the cause. I'd bet it was rampaging kangaroos with machetes. Those things are dangerous!

Post by **alien2** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:53 pm

It's not an accident but worse than one
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7324989/

WTF is wrong with people today?

Post by **diggum** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:03 pm

Whoa. That's just unbelievable. First thing that popped in my head was what could this guy have done to make someone do that to him...but whoever did that didn't have to have a reason. They were just fukkin crazy.

Post by **tomdarch** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:07 am

marathonmedic wrote:How unlucky do you have to be or how manky does that wall have to be?

A guy was killed in Chicago a few years ago from a falling wall. He and a friend were walking down a sidewalk (one that I walk down on occasion) when a garbage truck was backing out an alley from the property to the street. There was a 8' tall brick wall along the sidewalk and the garbage truck clipped it. The wall fell onto the two guys, killing one of them. There was nothing wrong with the wall, it just got knocked over by the truck and a few tons of bricks will squish you.

I'm picturing this basketball backboard/rim bolted to a single thickness (veneer) brick wall on a house or garage. It wouldn't have to be all that manky - it's just that veneer brick walls aren't designed to support 'sideways' loads. You yank on the rim hard enough and the bolts in that single thickness of brick pulls a bunch out ... bricks are held up by the bricks below .... and squish.