Darwin awards my friend. Darwin awards. On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <[email protected]> wrote:
> I live near a deep canyon with a river. Every summer we wonder, every time > we > hear the sirens, whether it is yet another kid who decided to jump off the > cliffs > into the river. There are big signs warning of the danger, and a number of > memorial plaques to those who have died. (Maybe it would be more effective > if all > the plaques were replaced and reworded, to say "Sacred to the memory of X, > WHO > WAS REALLY STUPID!!") > > So, we have a hurricane winding down, and what do people do? Decide to run > out > to the rocks and look at the big waves. Sometimes from underneath. > > "A 7-year-old girl died in Maine after she, her father, and a 12-year-old > girl were > swept into the water on August 23 off Acadia National Park’s Thunder Hole, > where tourists often gather to watch waves crash into a crevasse and make a > thundering sound while splashing high in the air. Park officials at Acadia > National > Park, about 110 miles northeast of Portland, said an estimated 10,000 > people, > lured by the wild ocean, converged on the park’s loop road trying to get a > good > view of waves more than 15 feet high crashing against the rocky shore. “The > problem was there were thousands and thousands of people to try to keep an > eye > on,” said the chief ranger. The U.S. Coast Guard reported that the waves > swept > over 20 people. The chief ranger said 11 people were taken to the hospital, > mainly for broken bones after being slammed onto the rocks. A Thunder Hole > viewing platform was closed, and they were among hundreds of people > watching > the waves from nearby rocks. Many people did not even move when the waves > splashed them and instead seemed to laugh it off, the chief ranger said." > > http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVWjsPEiqe1tEu2mhBIRax > xGi8owD9A93BK02<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVWjsPEiqe1tEu2mhBIRax%0AxGi8owD9A93BK02> > > Also: > > http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/08/25/ns-boaters-hurricane- > bill.html<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/08/25/ns-boaters-hurricane-%0Abill.html> > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > It is entirely untrue that we dislike you because of your [race| > religion|politics|sexual orientation|choice of operating system]. > We dislike you because you are a jerk. - rms > http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm > http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://twitter.com/NoticeBored > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >
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