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Up Up and .... BANG

2008 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Darwin says, "Accepted into the Archive."


ORIGINAL SUBMISSION:

An story on Spanish news in 2007,

high storm force winds swept southern Spain causing wide spread flooding and damage to buildings along the Costa Blanca. "COOL" thought one intrepid kite surfer who decided to ignore the state of emergency declared by the government and hit the beach. The high winds picked him up and smashed him into buildings almost a kilometer inland. giving him the ride of a lifetime and us one more nominee for Darwin

Submitted on 05/07/2008

Submitted by: George Kiernan
Reference: late 2007 spain RTVE

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Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Some garbanzo brain ignores obvious storm conditions AND a government warning!?! Could use a better write up, tho.


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
This could most certainly use a much better writeup, and without more details for a reference we can really only give this a PA. If you can dig up any actual news articles on this please let us know and we can give this a full DA.


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