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Rafts, Rivers, Cement and Bridges

2008 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

(14 September 2005, Lennoxville, Canada) Another Darwin Submission from Bishop's University

A group of students from Bishop's deciding to go rafting while drunk. Deciding that this foolhardy act was not enough, two of the group decide to tempt fate a second time by jumping off a train bridge into the St Francis river while their buddies looked on.

Pulling the rafts up next to the train bridge, the two foolhardy youths conveniently ignored the fact that each of the supports of the bridge are surrounded by a thick block of concrete.

The first student jumped off the bridge and broke his leg on the concrete. His friends at the base of the bridge rushed out to help him. Not to be outdone by his friend, the other of the two jumped off the bridge. He, unfortunately, hit is head on the concrete block, knocking himself unconscious. Police found his body floating in the river some hours later.

The saddest aspect of this story is that the student's friends were so preoccupied by the first student with the broken leg, they didn't even notice that their other friend was missing.

Submitted on 01/28/2008

Submitted by: T. Jones
Reference: http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/estrie/nouvelles/200509/14/004-triggs.shtml

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Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
While the cited article does not provide the details you do (rafting, drunk, etc) there is enough here that I say this one is a contender. Thanks


Bruce said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I'm a bit ambivalent given the embellishment in the submission versus whats stated in the referenced article, but I'll give this a nod. thanks for sending it in.


James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
While such antics are rather common, what gets me is the fact that they hit the concrete at all! Assuming the picture in the article is that of the bridge in question, they'd have to be pretty spastic to hit the concrete supports (or even any submerged concrete) seeing as there's a LOT of open space at the center of the span! I will give them a DA if only because they seem to have jumped from the wrong part of the bridge!


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