This guy was trying to wind surf during the tropical storm...
http://www.wjno.com/cc-common/news/sect ... le=4117332
My nomination for the Darwin awards
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My nomination for the Darwin awards
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough-
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
Ouch. It looked sort of fun for a minute, then not so much.
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
It was there just now. I got to say he has more guts than brains. Prolly even less brains now, that looked like it slammed him pretty good. 
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
+1TedH wrote:It was there just now. I got to say he has more guts than brains. Prolly even less brains now, that looked like it slammed him pretty good.
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
Stupid should hurt!!!
Really Baby, I swear that it just followed me home.
Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
And the kite's angry girlfriend said, "go fly a human". 
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
I saw that on the news tonite. Rusty how are ya'll doing down there? Sure hope all you Cracker levergunners make it through the storms.
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
I told my wife, it's a good thing the wind wasn't blowing out to sea. No telling how many people would have got killed looking for the body.
We're doing OK. No problems here. I drove 485 miles yesterday from Plant city to Pompano, to Ft. Lauderdale and back to Plant City.
Today I did 430 from Plant City to Jax and back. I had a small tear in the roof of the trailer I was pulling and by the time I got to Jax I had a 4'X5" hole that looked like the top on sardine can the way it peeled back.
We're doing OK. No problems here. I drove 485 miles yesterday from Plant city to Pompano, to Ft. Lauderdale and back to Plant City.
Today I did 430 from Plant City to Jax and back. I had a small tear in the roof of the trailer I was pulling and by the time I got to Jax I had a 4'X5" hole that looked like the top on sardine can the way it peeled back.
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough-
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
It ain't too graphic and it is there now, 12:50 a.m. CST 8/20/08Ysabel Kid wrote:Guess it was too graphic - the story has been pulled!
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
He is definitely a Darwin Award Candidate. Even if he lives, he should get an Honorable Mention.
That is as dumb as the guy who surfed in on a tsunami. IIRC, he smashed into a building a few hundred yards inland and they never recovered the body.
That is as dumb as the guy who surfed in on a tsunami. IIRC, he smashed into a building a few hundred yards inland and they never recovered the body.
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
When mother nature says "duck sucker" you really should pay attention. 
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
cut him some slack for crying out loud. his only problem was he FORGOT TO LET GO...
he's probably even more forgetful now...
he's probably even more forgetful now...
Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
I was thinking that, why didn't he let go. I'm pretty sure he was able to think about letting go, don't ask me how I know... 
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
From what I heard he was strapped into a harness.
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough-
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
Thats going to leave a mark 
Mike Johnson,
"Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
"Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
Once again....Mother Nature throwing a little chlorine into the gene pool.
You just know his last words were....
"Hey dude...hold my beer and watch this...."
You just know his last words were....
"Hey dude...hold my beer and watch this...."
Some people just need a sympathetic pat on the head.....with a hammer. Repeatedly.
Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
Mike Johnson,
"Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
"Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
Yes kite-surfers do wear a harness strapping them to the kite so they can can get airborne on the normally 15 knot winds that are ideal for this sport with only fools trying this in anything over 20 knots. Kailua my hometown, and where I presently reside is known as the kite-surfing, and windsurfing capitol of the world, and these idiots as always buzzing around as I try to peacefully fish Kailua Bay. I miss the good old days when these fool contraptions were not invented yet. 
If you look at the video you'll see another kite in the background filled with wind but still near the ground so there was more than one fool attempting this stunt. I hope the next hurricane here weeds out the morons.
If you look at the video you'll see another kite in the background filled with wind but still near the ground so there was more than one fool attempting this stunt. I hope the next hurricane here weeds out the morons.
Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
Makes one unarguable case against national health care.
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Re: My nomination for the Darwin awards
Not sure why it didn't work before - but I just watched it. What an idiot!Doc Hudson wrote:It ain't too graphic and it is there now, 12:50 a.m. CST 8/20/08Ysabel Kid wrote:Guess it was too graphic - the story has been pulled!
