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Surfing the wrong wave

2008 Reader Submission
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Darwin says, "Ouch"
A 21-yr old met (or pursued?) his demise while returning home from a music concert on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The young man was returning from the concert aboard a crowded bus, and according to his friends, was feeling sick from the heat. He then decided, instead of trying to move through the crowd to get closer to one of the windows, to climb on top of the moving bus (!) through the roof´s emergency escape hatch, to get "some fresh air". His friends claim they tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted he wanted to "surf" the bus to cool off.

After a short while, his friend climbed to the roof, only to find him dead. Cause of death was ruled as blunt-force trauma to head, as he was struck by one overpass on Aterro do Flamengo expressway while standing on top of the bus, which was probably moving at some good 80 km/h (50-60 mph).

News on the case (in portuguese): oglobo.globo.com

Submitted on 02/18/2008

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: 2008/02/17

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