Monday, May 19, 2008

The Darwin award.....

There was a joke floating around the Internet about people who earned the Darwin Award. You know, survival of the fittest, with the weakest being killed off. Those who killed themselves automatically were awarded post mortum, the award. I can't recall all of the examples given. One guy was trying to turn his car into an airplane, and he hit a mountain, and I don't know, several other examples of people who offed themselves in stupid stunts. Locally, we had a prime example of such stupidity. A teenager, tried to climb the tower where Channel 5 and KCMO, radio station broadcasts. You never want to climb a tower when the station is operating. The RF will stop the heart immediately, especially if that station is operating at full power, or even half power. Have you ever wondered why when they do work on radio towers, they kill half the transmitting power, so they can safely work on the equipment. They say he fell, I would speculate that he was dead before he hit the ground.

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