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Offline Vulcan

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« on: January 20, 2008, 07:24:56 PM »
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raffitists swept to death in Sydney drain
Desperate bid to save two in drain fails
By PAUL BIBBY and JANO GIBSON - SMH | Monday, 21 January 2008

LATEST: Two lifeguards went into a flooded stormwater drain in a desperate bid to save two people who were caught inside, while a third rescued another man who escaped the drain and was washed into a bay.

Police say the three victims - a woman aged 22 from St Peters and two men aged 25 and 27 from Pennant Hills - were spraying graffiti in a stormwater drain on Moverly Road, Kingsford when they were swept more than a kilometre down the drain by a sudden torrent caused by a downpour.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/4365725a12.html

Cleansing the gene pool can be nasty stuff sometimes :(
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2008, 07:35:34 PM »
Our species evolves in misterious ways..lol
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 10:15:57 PM »
Even God seems to hate graffiti criminals.
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2008, 09:35:55 AM »
I wonder if they heard that flushing sound just before they got swept away.
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« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2008, 09:47:15 AM »
What if they did? Prolly thought "cool", and off they went... :p

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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2008, 10:24:31 AM »
Just a thought.....anyone ever seen the movie "Idiocracy"?  It's not a bad movie, kinda funny, but not great.

The basic premise is this.....500 years into the future the human race is dumb as all hell.  Basically the uneducated trailer trash gene pool tends to reproduce more than that of those of higher education.  Eventually intelligence and higher learning are a thing of the past.  

It's kinda opposite of the Darwin awards but a kind of scary example of how the dumb ones can outproduce the smart ones.
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2008, 11:27:33 AM »
What really stands out here to me is the ages of the people involved.
Maybe at 12~15 or so you might expect someone to be in a storm drain graffitiing .....but 27? ffs, what's up with that?
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2008, 12:26:21 PM »
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
Just a thought.....anyone ever seen the movie "Idiocracy"?  It's not a bad movie, kinda funny, but not great.

The basic premise is this.....500 years into the future the human race is dumb as all hell.  Basically the uneducated trailer trash gene pool tends to reproduce more than that of those of higher education.  Eventually intelligence and higher learning are a thing of the past.  

It's kinda opposite of the Darwin awards but a kind of scary example of how the dumb ones can outproduce the smart ones.


Thanks to the wonders of modern medicine and warning labels this is happening as we speak. I give western civilization 40 years tops.
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