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An inch from a Darwin Award

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This is a person account and near miss.

Back in the days when I was a student, me and my friends participated in a 12 hour photomarathon that took place around Helsinki city centre in Finland. For some reason we thought that it would be appropriate to drink heavily throughout the competition and not supprisingly after 11 hours we were heavily intoxicated.

The subject for the last photo was "don´t try this at home". Obviously this called for something stupid and we thought that stupid enough thing to do was to hoist someone 10 feet up in to a large tree and then take a picture. The idea was so good that we didn´t bother to concentrate on how this person should get down. As it turned out, that was not a problem.

I was of course happy to volunteer and as I was hugging the large tree trunk a single little thought was trying to present itself from my boozed out mind. The thought was simply "I´m going to fall, because I don´t have the strenght to hold on anymore".

The 10 feet fall would probably have hurt enough without the iron fence next to the tree with 10-inch ironmade decorative cones on top of it. I landed bottom first on one of those cones and the next morning based on the large dark bruise on my inner thigh, I noticed that a Darwin Award was about an inch away.

Submitted on 05/21/2008

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Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Did you win the competition? I'll bet you would have if your friends had taken a picture of the landing. But then, if they had been sober enough to do that, you would not have been in the tree. Thanks for the funny story.


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
When I first got to the part about the iron fence I cringed, expecting to read that you impaled yourself on it. You're darned lucky that you escaped with just a bruise. Thanks for sharing this with us!


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