Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons [video]

Post by knodi123 » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 5:37 AM UTC

seszett wrote: post #17

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Hey, tell me about it. There was a tragic accident at my school, when a structure collapsed and killed several students, because it had insufficient engineering oversight. But, eh, Darwin Awards had to make a joke, so they collectively gave it to all the victims, who were getting up at the crack of dawn to volunteer on a group project, and following all the safety rules they were given.

That's weird because it directly contradicts most rules of Darwin Awards, that the people must be mature (well I don't know what kind of school it was), that they must be the ones responsible for their death (from what you say, the engineering is what killed students later) and that it must be because of "extraordinary misjudgment" on the part of the people both responsible and victims (who are supposed to be the sam…

Post by dogruck » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

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Also don’t want to mock the dead, but this note made me shake my head: > His training for the stunt included jungle survival and mountain climbing courses, but apparently did not include instruction on use of his GPS - in a telephone call he made during the flight, he stated that if someone could just explain how to use his GPS he could relay his position to rescuers.

Sorry, I've upvoted you, but apparently you were downvoted because you're BLAMING THE VICTIM. How about that? You're not allowed to note or comment reasonable things anymore.

Post by animal531 » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 2:15 PM UTC

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> Darwin Award Making fun of people dying. Fucking sick stuff. It's also logically crap. Often it's people (as in this case) doing things outside the normal. Things as hackers we should celebrate. It's also often people in extreme poverty just trying to make a living, aka the fucking sick part that we as rich educated people make fun of cause we don't have to do dirty things like recycle metal from unexploded ordnanc…

IIRC it's based on upvotes. And the most upvoted ones are also about criminals meeting prompt demise: http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1993-06.html