Comments | kat_rowe: Darwin Award runners-up

kat_rowe

Darwin Award runners-up

Feb 10, 2009 17:05

So, I'm watching the local news on Saturday and there's a rescue-effort underway only a few dozen miles from here. 150-odd ice-fishermen are trapped on an ice-floe. What really had me going "wtf?" was the fact that the high temperature here on Saturday was FIFTY DEGREES. Granted, I've never been ice-fishing in my life, but it just seems like common ( Read more... )

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sunkrux February 11 2009, 03:57:22 UTC

I say leave their asses on the ice flow and let it take them out to sea. OR drown them.

kat_rowe February 11 2009, 03:58:57 UTC

I'm inclined to agree, but I'm pretty sure the Coast Guard doesn't roll like that...

sunkrux February 11 2009, 04:02:16 UTC

Well I think if they started rolling like that or CHARGING the idiots they have to repeatedly rescue, then maybe idiots would catch on...or die.

kat_rowe February 11 2009, 04:03:36 UTC

*nods* Considering that it's MY tax-dollars funding the rescue, I couldn't agree more.