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Originally Posted by stracing
thats good there weren't anyone seriously hurt
in a similar situation dickheads liked throwing rocks from bridges on a motorway. some ppl were killed by it
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For those who don't know the story, copied from The Darwin Awards
Personal Account: Bridge Bowling
October 1999
There are jerks, and then there are real jerks, like people who think it's funny to drop heavy objects on cars from a highway overpass. Hector, our hero and Darwin contestant is one of the real jerks.
Late one night he found the perfect spot for his hobby. An old overpass had been torn down, and its replacement was almost finished. Hector located a boulder of concrete identifiable as a piece of the old bridge by the rusty steel rods protruding from it. Using the rods as handles, he dragged the mass onto the new bridge, and right to the brink of the fast lane below. Then he heaved it onto the edge of the low construction fence, a position so precarious that he was barely able to hold it in place. There he lurked, waiting for a victim.
Hector wasn't aware of the hook-shaped, rusty metal rod that was dangerously close to his private parts.
When the next car came, he timed the moment just right, and rolled the concrete over the brink. The sharp metal rod pierced his jeans and hooked itself firmly in his flesh, and before our hero could react, the boulder began to painfully pull him off the overpass.
Panicked, he managed to grab the handrail and hang on for dear life. Unfortunately, neither the jeans nor his delicate flesh could support the weight of the falling boulder. The metal rod ripped through flesh and fabric, and tore his jeans from his body, pulling them down until his feet got stuck in the cuffs. At this point his hands slipped from the rail, and he fell to the roadway, suffering more injuries and knocking himself out as he landed on the roadbed on top of the concrete boulder.
The driver of an oncoming car braked and swerved as the boulder and the man crashed into her headlight beams. She avoided the man lying on the road, but not the boulder, which became stuck int he bumper of her car. THe man was still attached to the boulder by the jeans at his feet. He was dragged ninety feet, until the car finally braked to a halt.
After this experience our hero's contribution to the gene pool was in rather poor shape, as you might imagine, partially hanging in shreds from the boulder, partially spread across thirty yards of highway. Heroic doctors managed to save quite a bit of him, almost spoiling his chances for a Darwin. In th enick of time an infection caused by the rusty wound finished the job, resulting in the loss of his private parts.
As a bonus to society, as soon as he was able to leave the hospital, he was locked away fromt he public for a long time. Not only did he lose his ability to contribute to the gene pool, but he also will no longer be able to disturb the survival of the fittest by throwing heavy objects at them.
Proof that sometimes bad behavior is punished. But seriously people be carful out there.
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