Bryan Stone
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Post by Bryan Stone on Sept 21, 2009 13:26:16 GMT -5
everytime we hit the AP headlines we look like idiots: Rescuers in Tennessee were searching for a Chattanooga man who was swept into a culvert Sunday after boasting to friends and relatives that he could swim across a flooded ditch alongside his house for $5. The man’s nephew identified him as 46-year-old Sylvester Kitchens. Firefighters rescued another man who also tried to swim the ditch. Albert Miller was found clinging to a fence in the water near where the water empties into the culvert, said Fire Department spokesman Bruce Garner. Miller was taken to the hospital with symptoms of hypothermia. The nephew, 22-year-old Leslie Townsend, said Kitchens was swept away when he tried to grab onto a garden hose that Townsend threw to him. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32952369/ns/weather/?GT1=43001 |
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Post by gridbug on Sept 21, 2009 14:02:29 GMT -5
I sure hope they had someone hold the money. I'd hate to think that Sylvester's last act in this life was to welch on a bet. I can't help but appreciate the irony that slang for a $5 bill is a "fin".
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frayne
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Post by frayne on Sept 21, 2009 14:07:01 GMT -5
The guy who went swimming in the swollen creek is an idiot, nuff said.
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Jay
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Post by Jay on Sept 21, 2009 14:33:32 GMT -5
Good candidate for the Darwin awards..
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snarkalicious
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Post by snarkalicious on Sept 23, 2009 9:54:51 GMT -5
I swear the national news channels have a list of inbred rednecks to interview when anything major happens in the South...
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ScarlettP
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Post by ScarlettP on Sept 23, 2009 13:38:28 GMT -5
It's just like the news covering a Science Fiction Convention. They LOOK for the slobbering mouth breather who needs help getting dressed to interveiw. Then they stick Spock ears and a Dr. Who scarf on the poor slob and start rolling tape until he says something totally stupid.
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BlackFox
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Post by BlackFox on Sept 23, 2009 14:13:04 GMT -5
I swear the national news channels have a list of inbred rednecks to interview when anything major happens in the South... Unfortunately, they're not hard to find. I just went to Walmart in Dalton during lunch. It was like Darwins' waiting room in there. |
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joedog
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Post by joedog on Sept 23, 2009 16:13:32 GMT -5
Good candidate for the Darwin awards.. Does not qualify...... Has kids |
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Scarlet&Gray
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Sept 23, 2009 20:59:43 GMT -5
That's an easy one the whole dang Convention is full of them. While any news station would cover these dress up parties is beyond me. It's not news.
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Post by fftspam on Sept 24, 2009 0:30:53 GMT -5
They now have a lawyer.. the story changed: "Mr. Townsend said his uncle was standing by the rushing water when his feet slipped and he fell in. He said a friend, Albert Miller, jumped in after him to try to save him." chattanoogan.com/articles/article_159487.asp |
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Jay
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Post by Jay on Sept 24, 2009 12:22:31 GMT -5
The article didn't say anything about a lawyer...
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Post by augie47 on Sept 24, 2009 12:37:00 GMT -5
no lawyer mentioned, but I would not doubt fftspam is correct.
Obtaining the Darwin Award would interfer with the pending lawsuit against Public Works for not (a) mainataining the bank or (b) fencing off the culvert, or (c) etc.
That plus having to explain to everyone why he was eleigible.
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Jay
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Post by Jay on Sept 24, 2009 13:01:22 GMT -5
If someone sued, I don't think it'd get very far.. People already know he jumped in on purpose to win a bet.
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