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fred79
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posted December 31, 2016 04:10 AM |
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definitely looks like the kid fell in the end. probably hit a pothole or something. oh well, he wasn't going to grow up to be a rocket scientist or anything important, anyway.
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EnergyZ
Legendary Hero
President of MM Wiki
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posted January 02, 2017 11:50 PM |
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted January 03, 2017 12:12 AM |
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Edited by Elvin at 07:00, 03 Jan 2017.
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That hoop made a fool out of him 
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Elvin
Admirable
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Endless Revival
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posted January 06, 2017 03:19 PM |
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OhforfSake
Promising
Legendary Hero
Initiate
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posted January 06, 2017 06:07 PM |
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EnergyZ said:
Dance of prematurity.
I have done that.  Except.. it wasn't exactly a dance though..
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted January 06, 2017 06:30 PM |
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i'm never premature. you can't be, if you finish the job. 
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Elvin
Admirable
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Endless Revival
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posted January 09, 2017 04:43 PM |
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EnergyZ
Legendary Hero
President of MM Wiki
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posted January 09, 2017 04:47 PM |
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Brutal. But that's what you get for ineptitude and inexperience.
Anyway, when am I supposed to go?
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Elvin
Admirable
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Endless Revival
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posted January 09, 2017 05:00 PM |
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Ooh, is that multiple choice?
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Maurice
Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
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posted January 09, 2017 06:53 PM |
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Either that's photoshop or a piece of art. That can't be real  .
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted January 09, 2017 07:15 PM |
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I don't think it tries to present itself as real, the exaggeration is intentional.
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AlHazin
Promising
Supreme Hero
النور
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posted January 10, 2017 07:24 PM |
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Maurice said:
AlHazin said:
He tried to stop it with gis foot dudes
Desparate times call for desparate measures .
I see that.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted January 10, 2017 07:27 PM |
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It's a prototype for European Union area entrance.
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Maurice
Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
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posted January 10, 2017 08:56 PM |
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Salamandre said:
It's a prototype for European Union area entrance.
Nah, then all the lights would be green.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted January 10, 2017 08:59 PM |
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EnergyZ
Legendary Hero
President of MM Wiki
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posted January 12, 2017 01:05 PM |
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Down, boy, down!
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted January 12, 2017 04:06 PM |
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I regularly read the original Darwin Awards page, it's full of so many gems. But really, no one beats Lawn Chair Larry from 1982. His story should be here, too. You're the man, Larry:
(1982, California) Larry Walters of Los Angeles is one of the few to contend for the Darwin Awards and live to tell the tale. "I have fulfilled my 20-year dream," said Walters, a former truck driver for a company that makes TV commercials. "I'm staying on the ground. I've proved the thing works."
Larry's boyhood dream was to fly. But fates conspired to keep him from his dream. He joined the Air Force, but his poor eyesight disqualified him from the job of pilot. After he was discharged from the military, he sat in his backyard watching jets fly overhead.
He hatched his weather balloon scheme while sitting outside in his "extremely comfortable" Sears lawnchair. He purchased 45 weather balloons from an Army-Navy surplus store, tied them to his tethered lawnchair (dubbed the Inspiration I) and filled the four-foot diameter balloons with helium. Then, armed with some sandwiches, Miller Lite, and a pellet gun, he strapped himself into his lawnchair. He figured he would shoot to pop a few of the many balloons when it was time to descend.
Larry planned to sever the anchor and lazily float to a height of about 30 feet above the backyard, where he would enjoy a few hours of flight before coming back down. But things didn't work out quite as Larry planned.
When his friends cut the cord anchoring the lawnchair to his Jeep, he did not float lazily up to 30 feet. Instead he streaked into the LA sky as if shot from a cannon, pulled by the lift of 45 helium balloons, holding 33 cubic feet of helium each.
He didn't level off at 100 feet, nor did he level off at 1000 feet. After climbing and climbing, he leveled off at 16,000 feet.
At that height he felt he couldn't risk shooting any of the balloons, lest he unbalance the load and really find himself in trouble. So he stayed there, drifting cold and frightened with his beer and sandwiches, for more than 14 hours. He crossed the primary approach corridor of LAX, where startled Trans World Airlines and Delta Airlines pilots radioed in reports of the strange sight.
Eventually he gathered the nerve to shoot a few balloons, and slowly descended. The hanging tethers tangled and caught in a power line, blacking out a Long Beach neighborhood for 20 minutes. Larry climbed to safety, where he was arrested by waiting members of the LAPD. As he was led away in handcuffs, a reporter dispatched to cover the daring rescue asked him why he had done it. Larry replied nonchalantly, "A man can't just sit around."
The Federal Aviation Administration was not amused. Safety Inspector Neal Savoy said, "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, a charge will be filed."
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Elvin
Admirable
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Endless Revival
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posted January 12, 2017 04:15 PM |
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Stevie
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted January 12, 2017 04:17 PM |
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted January 12, 2017 04:23 PM |
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and what about those of us who don't have a facebook account? it's elitism, i tell you. 
especially regarding the subject matter. you should know better, elvie-boy.
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