Jim! There’s A Hurricane! Grab Your Kiteboard!
I think the folks at the Darwin Awards should just call it a year; the winner for 2008 has been found. Tropical Storm (one time and possibly future Hurricane) Fay blew through the Florida Keys yesterday. What would you do if you knew a hurricane was going to hit you? Leave? Board up the house? Get the pets to higher ground? All good options, not one of which was chosen by our hero; Mr. Hurricane Kiteboard flyer. If you have some deep rooted desire to get your body slammed into a concrete wall by 80 mph winds while strapped to a kite, more power to ya; just don’t expect me to come running with my wallet open when it turns out that not only are you a crazy fool, you’re a crazy uninsured fool. Something tells me that even if he has insurance, he may not for much longer once his agent sees this video. I wonder if he had R. Kelly playing on his ipod.
Sue
I thought the ‘winners’ of the Darwin Award had to, you know, die. The Honorable Mentions… weren’t those the ones that didn’t? Bah, what do I know?
That’s awful. and stupid. But awful.
(NukeDad) I think you’re right, but this guy isn’t out of the woods yet. He could still win.
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Aug 19, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
Mike
I think I just wrote about “common sense” or the lack of it just today. Isn’t it amazing what goes on or doesn’t go on in their heads…
(NukeDad) Actually, I think the last thing to go through his mind was a stop sign.
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Aug 19, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
tom
Technically, the Darwin Award winners merely have to remove themselves from the gene pool. So if he just happened to take a lamppost right in the jewels, he’s in.
The newscasters said he’s going to be all right. Somehow, I don’t think “all right” could have been ascribed to him before he made the news anyway.
(NukeDad) Even if he lives, I don’t think he’ll be allowed back in the gene pool.
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Aug 19, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
Weaselmooma
Guys like this are why I feel validated in procreating as much as I did. Somebody has to strengthen the gene pool.
(NukeDad) True. He obviously liked to hang out in the shallow end.
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Aug 20, 2008 @ 7:05 am
Mike
thanks for the heads up on the “Gay Thugs Dating” ad. God I hate Google Adsense…
(NukeDad) No problem. You had me worried there for a minute.
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Aug 20, 2008 @ 11:48 am
Mike Marshall
Oh the humanity! You’d think he would’ve let go after he ate the sand…………OUCH!
Peace, Mike.
(NukeDad) I think he thought he could ride it out; have a story to tell the grandkids. Then that wall came up and bounced him into reality.
Aug 20, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Kim
Dude.. just let go of the string? That was crazy!!
PS.. I have you a little award on my blog if you would like to come and collect it my friend..
(NukeDad) Thanks, Kim!
Aug 20, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
Audubon Ron
THAT is something else. I was peeing my pants laughing. Had to show it to folks here at the office. As you know the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my house. You get the flock out of Dodge, you don’t go flying a kite on Mother nature.
(NukeDad) But, DUDE! The winds were RIGHTEOUS for some RADICAL BUILDING BOUNCING!
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Aug 20, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
Karen
Ditto everything Kim said!
(NukeDad) Wow! Another award? 2 in 2 days? I feel like Sally Field! Thanks Karen!
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Aug 21, 2008 @ 4:17 am
BusyDad
I feel slighted. I never got to submit my entry “Wrapping myself in tinfoil and running into the CA wildfires with a stick and a pack of Oscar Meyer Wieners.”
(NukeDad) Now THAT would be a great You Tube Video!
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Aug 21, 2008 @ 11:19 am
VegasDad
Now that takes extreme sports to the next level. They should make it a sport and add it to the Olympics. We can see who manages to smash into the Great Wall.
(NukeDad) Good idea, they could call it “Solo Synchronized Body Smashing”. I think this guy would take the Gold.
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Aug 21, 2008 @ 9:10 pm