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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FLOOB on August 25, 2014, 07:44:07 PM

Title: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: FLOOB on August 25, 2014, 07:44:07 PM: It finally happened. The first Ice Bucket Challenge fatality.

I'm not insensitive, but when I read that headline it made me laugh.
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: Someguy63 on August 25, 2014, 10:00:38 PM: Musta been pretty scary to be a witness for some.
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: ebfd11 on August 25, 2014, 10:02:11 PM: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/scottish-teen-dies-in-ice-bucket-challenge-tragedy-95761970734.html

I don't think it was the ice bucket challenge as it might be the jump from the quarry ledge.

LawnDart
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: Meatwad on August 25, 2014, 10:16:25 PM: Another reason why people just need to stop with the social fads
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: Flench on August 26, 2014, 02:55:10 AM: Quote from: ebfd11 on August 25, 2014, 10:02:11 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/scottish-teen-dies-in-ice-bucket-challenge-tragedy-95761970734.html

I don't think it was the ice bucket challenge as it might be the jump from the quarry ledge.

LawnDart
yeap , be like eating and going swimming .
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: Swoop on August 26, 2014, 10:13:30 AM: This one is a Darwin award.

So....today I'm working in an office where the tech support geek is the best friend of a cousin of this lad mentioned in the story above. Apparently they had another cousin who died last year from spraying waaaaay too much deodorant in an enclosed space, choking on the fumes and passing out. Or so I'm told, not absolutely sure I believe that you can die from breathing a can of Lynx but it sure sounds like the family has Darwin awards in it's history.
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: Wiley on August 26, 2014, 10:26:20 AM: Quote from: ebfd11 on August 25, 2014, 10:02:11 PM
I don't think it was the ice bucket challenge as it might be the jump from the quarry ledge.

LawnDart

Gotta agree with this.

More related IMO from the other day... (http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/firefighters-shocked-in-ice-bucket-challenge-gone-wrong-1.1971037)

I just can't help but be angry at the stupidity, of all people who would know enough to stay clear of the power lines in a bucket lift you'd think firefighters would be at the tip top of the list, right behind power company linesmen.

Wiley.
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: FLOOB on August 26, 2014, 03:26:04 PM: Quote from: Wiley on August 26, 2014, 10:26:20 AM
Gotta agree with this.

More related IMO from the other day... (http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/firefighters-shocked-in-ice-bucket-challenge-gone-wrong-1.1971037)

I just can't help but be angry at the stupidity, of all people who would know enough to stay clear of the power lines in a bucket lift you'd think firefighters would be at the tip top of the list, right behind power company linesmen.

Wiley.
Paramedics have a term "fireman proof".
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: SIM on August 26, 2014, 04:50:17 PM: Looks like they set up the truck between a distribution primary line and a transmission line.......the pictures suggest they were in an electrically confined space using a metal ladder.

That truly is a Darwin Award moment.

I hate they were burned, their suffering is unspeakable.

But the sheer stupidity is phenomenal.
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: GScholz on August 26, 2014, 05:04:56 PM: Quote from: FLOOB on August 26, 2014, 03:26:04 PM
Paramedics have a term "fireman proof".

Is it similar to "infantry proof"?
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: Wiley on August 26, 2014, 05:10:48 PM: Quote from: FLOOB on August 26, 2014, 03:26:04 PM
Paramedics have a term "fireman proof".

This horrifies me, and then on some level I realize I shouldn't be surprised...

Wiley.
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: Slash27 on August 26, 2014, 06:33:41 PM: Quote from: FLOOB on August 26, 2014, 03:26:04 PM
Paramedics have a term "fireman proof".
They do?
Title: Re: We all knew this day would come.
Post by: Serenity on August 26, 2014, 07:15:48 PM: Quote from: GScholz on August 26, 2014, 05:04:56 PM
Is it similar to "infantry proof"?

SWO proof?