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Post by resolution on Jul 7, 2015 11:20:19 GMT -5
I don't think that it is generational or due to the current safety cocoon, I think that teenagers are just immortal and it takes a while for people to grow up. There is also an aspect of guys showing off. This has been the case for many generations.
Back in the 80s when I was a teen, it was common for everyone to jump off of cliffs into oak creek, and every couple of years a kid would break their back on the rocks and be paralyzed for life. But sure enough, we would all still go there and jump off. I would avoid some of the stupider jumps but all of the guys would want to show off how great they were and jump into places that anyone with common sense could see were stupid.
Same thing with the grand canyon; when we had a high school group going there, the guys would all jump up on the rocks at the edge and show off how brave they were. Even in my 20s if I went there with a date it would be the same thing.
One of the things I appreciate about my husband is that he won't take a stupid risk for no reason. He may do things I consider risky if they are part of a task that he is working on, but he won't just needlessly do something risky because he can.
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Post by resolution on Jul 7, 2015 11:21:00 GMT -5
Makes you wonder if they posted signs saying you were going to be held financially responsible for any rescue attempts on your behalf and if you're unable to pay, your butt will be in serious trouble if it'd stop anybody? The Arizona Stupid Motorist Act did that, and people will still drive right into rivers and have to pay for their rescue. Every year.
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Post by Bonny on Jul 7, 2015 11:31:47 GMT -5
Makes you wonder if they posted signs saying you were going to be held financially responsible for any rescue attempts on your behalf and if you're unable to pay, your butt will be in serious trouble if it'd stop anybody? The Arizona Stupid Motorist Act did that, and people will still drive right into rivers around barricades! and have to pay for their rescue. Every year. Fixed!
My late FIL's favorite saying was you can't legislate stupidity.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 7, 2015 11:36:33 GMT -5
Makes you wonder if they posted signs saying you were going to be held financially responsible for any rescue attempts on your behalf and if you're unable to pay, your butt will be in serious trouble if it'd stop anybody? They've started this in some places....when I lived in TX, people would drive around the barriers put up at high water crossings, they'd get stuck and need to get rescued. When I left, I know that they were discussing doing this there, but not sure if it went through.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 7, 2015 14:33:32 GMT -5
June 2017: Mrs. Winnie Pugnunkle is demanding stricter standards for stored explosives after her 22-year-old son, Mark Pugnunkle, broke into a construction site, crawled into a trailer through a ventilation shaft, pried open a strongbox to obtain a stick of dynamite, lit the stick, swallowed it, and was killed when it detonated inside his stomach.
"Mark was such a brilliant boy," Mrs. Pugnunkle told interviewers. "He never made a reckless decision in his life. He'd always swallow things just to make people laugh."
Pugnunkle believes her son's death would have been prevented had the labeling on the dynamite strongbox been clearer.
"It said 'Do not place explosives on head. Do not give explosives to young children. Do not throw explosives into fire.' but it said nothing about eating them," she argued. "Really, it's like we're setting up our children to die in these kinds of tragedies. Mark deserved our protection and yet we did nothing."
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 7, 2015 14:37:09 GMT -5
June 2017: Mrs. Winnie Pugnunkle is demanding stricter standards for stored explosives after her 22-year-old son, Mark Pugnunkle, broke into a construction site, crawled into a trailer through a ventilation shaft, pried open a strongbox to obtain a stick of dynamite, lit the stick, swallowed it, and was killed when it detonated inside his stomach. "Mark was such a brilliant boy," Mrs. Pugnunkle told interviewers. "He never made a reckless decision in his life. He'd always swallow things just to make people laugh."
Pugnunkle believes her son's death would have been prevented had the labeling on the dynamite strongbox been clearer. "It said 'Do not place explosives on head. Do not give explosives to young children. Do not throw explosives into fire.' but it said nothing about eating them," she argued. "Really, it's like we're setting up our children to die in these kinds of tragedies. Mark deserved our protection and yet we did nothing."
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 7, 2015 16:32:52 GMT -5
How much stricter can they make firework regulations?
It says right on the label to place on the ground or secure container and then run like hell. Don't go back and play with it if it doesn't ignite b/c it may still blow up.
How about you don't get so drunk you can't read the warning label?
Did anyone else see the story about th peopel who got eaten by a lion on a safari? They hung their heads out the window to get a better picture. When the news aired the story one of the guides was by the entrance gate. Freaking PLASTERED with signs saying "keep windows rolled up" "do not stick head out of window". Apparently these people thought they were the exception, Simba would NEVER eat them.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jul 7, 2015 16:35:34 GMT -5
How much stricter can they make firework regulations?
It says right on the label to place on the ground or secure container and then run like hell. Don't go back and play with it if it doesn't ignite b/c it may still blow up.
How about you don't get so drunk you can't read the warning label?
Did anyone else see the story about th peopel who got eaten by a lion on a safari? They hung their heads out the window to get a better picture. When the news aired the story one of the guides was by the entrance gate. Freaking PLASTERED with signs saying "keep windows rolled up" "do not stick head out of window". Apparently these people thought they were the exception, Simba would NEVER eat them. . Ct only allows the sale of sparklers
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Post by mmhmm on Jul 7, 2015 17:02:57 GMT -5
You can't cure stupid. You can bemoan it, laugh at it, cry over it, and deny it; however, you cannot cure it. Sure you can. It cures itself, even. You just have to loosen up your standards on how alive the patient is once cured. LOL! I can't do that. I took this oath, you see ... I guess the point is moot, however. This guy's stupidity took care of itself - and him.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 7, 2015 17:16:23 GMT -5
How much stricter can they make firework regulations?
It says right on the label to place on the ground or secure container and then run like hell. Don't go back and play with it if it doesn't ignite b/c it may still blow up.
How about you don't get so drunk you can't read the warning label?
Did anyone else see the story about th peopel who got eaten by a lion on a safari? They hung their heads out the window to get a better picture. When the news aired the story one of the guides was by the entrance gate. Freaking PLASTERED with signs saying "keep windows rolled up" "do not stick head out of window". Apparently these people thought they were the exception, Simba would NEVER eat them. He just wants to be king!
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 7, 2015 18:20:24 GMT -5
Children? He was 22. It seems a child would know better. But then most kids aren't drunk.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 20:21:22 GMT -5
He was not alone in stupidity. This incident made our local news today.
"Colorado County sheriff's officials said a Columbus man died after shooting a firework off his chest. Justin Bartek, 30, died at Columbus Community Hospital on Tuesday.
"He just had an infectious spirit, whenever you met him you met a friend," said Erica Jackson.
Bartek is well known in the small town of Columbus. Friends described him as a veteran postal worker full of personality and generosity.
"He was the light of many people's lives and the world to the people that knew him, and he would give the world to any that asked," said Jackson.
Sheriff's officials said Bartek and friends were shooting off fireworks at a popular fishing spot on the Colorado River. Sheriff's officials said Bartek put one the fireworks on his chest. When it went off he was critically injured and died after he was rushed to the hospital by paramedics.
"He was here yesterday smiling and talking to everyone and saying, 'Hi,'" said Jackson. "And today you get the sad news that he's just not here."
Bartek leaves behind a 3-year-old son and a trail of people who had gown accustomed to the smile, wave and friendly banter he delivered to everyone along his postal route.
"You don't see that smiling face coming at you and just waving and just giving you a nice little pep in your day," said Jackson. "I was driving by to go to the post office and I saw a postal truck, and just out of habit is to go wave and it wasn't him."
Bartek's mother told KPRC 2 her son grew up in Katy and graduated from Katy High School before moving to Columbus. Butter Bartek said she and her husband are on their way back to town from Colorado where they were tending to Bartek's brother, who had been in an accident on the Fourth of July.
Sheriff's officials said an autopsy will determine exactly how Bartek died."
Please note the statement about Mr. Bartek being a veteran postal worker; it explains a lot about our postal service or the lack thereof. I know this will sound really, really harsh but I have to wonder what sort of accident the brother was involved in in Colorado on the 4th.
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Post by cronewitch on Jul 7, 2015 21:17:32 GMT -5
I do find it vaguely entertaining that the fireworks were the problem... and not the alcohol consumption. I guess it's because alcohol consumption has nothing to do with any of the accidents/deaths that occurr when it's being consumed? Maybe we should create home and community 'safe rooms' specifically for alcohol consumption and the hours of recovery after intoxication? It would probably cut down on the deaths... The only times I have ever been drunk was when I had a non drinking boyfriend. We would go out and I would hand him my car keys, drink as much as I wanted and he kept me safe usually at his house. Sometimes I would go to his house and drink, knowing I was perfectly safe. When I am with anyone else who drinks I never have more than one drink and the past few years no drinks but it was fun having a safe place to drink and stay over. When I was a child we got lessons of fireworks little kids learned sparklers, older we got lady fingers that were tiny firecrackers. We were able to watch the teens and adults do the bigger fireworks but always told how dangerous it was and to never pick up a dud until the next day, they aren't always duds sometimes just slow. Maybe this young man didn't have parents and older kids to teach him about duds. We have some 18 packs that if didn't count them going up you wouldn't ever look in the holes to see if one was left, you'll shoot your eye out.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 8, 2015 8:00:22 GMT -5
Coroner: Autopsy commenced at 9:45 AM, July 13. The decedent is one Justin Bartek. A white male, age thirty. Beginning with a visual inspection of the body. The decedent has what appears to be a massive blackened crater spanning the thoracic cavity, extending downward from the second intercostal space to...
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