On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:27:05PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen >> frank theriault wrote: >>> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>>> >> ...although he ended up with some great shots, he could also just as >>>> >> easily ended up dead. >>>> >> >>>> >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234929/Cheating-death-The-moment-British-photographer-narrowly-escapes-crushed-runaway-drag-race-car.html >>> > > Now ~that's~ dedication! Or stupidity. >> >> Or he was too scared to move. >> > > Too busy rehearsing his acceptance speech for the Darwin Awards banquette.
He looks more thanm old enough to have passed on his genes by now, which makes him ineligible for the Darwin awards. Personally I agree he's an idiot. Although the laws of physics make it reasonably easy to predict roughly where the car is going to end up, he's cutting it much too fine (leaving a margin of safety measured in inches, not in feet). If I'd ever done anything that stupid at the track I'd have expected my credentials to be revoked. While I (or my estate) would have had no comeback against either the series or the venue, they don't need the bad publicity that would automatically ensue, and the other working photographers don't need extra rules designed to protect idiots. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
