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College student who plunged to death on cruise was watching Miami sunrise
·FoxNews.com ^ | October 01, 2014

Posted on 10/01/2014 8:25:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Kendall Wernet, 20, who was originally from South Carolina, was with a group of about five who climbed the mast on the ship, The Ecstasy, and sat there for about 45 minutes talking about life and their future. One person in the group said no drinking had been involved.

Wernet was standing when a radar dish on the restricted platform started to rotate, Steve Acorn, a mentor who was with the group, told the station. The student was knocked over to the runner's track below

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"He was the kind of guy, that if you had a daughter, you'd want him to marry her,"

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"He was the kind of guy, that if you had a daughter, you'd want him to marry her,

So I could have stupid grandkids?

1 posted on 10/01/2014 8:25:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

“Professor Darwin, please pick up the white courtesy phone, Professor Darwin...”

CC


2 posted on 10/01/2014 8:32:03 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: BenLurkin

When you are in your 20s you are immortal and not subject to the laws of physics.

I know because I once was and was...

It is a blessing from God I had a Guardian Angel b/c there are several things I did that should have ended up with me dead or badly injured...

Prayers for this child and his family — even Guardian Angels can only do so much.


3 posted on 10/01/2014 8:38:44 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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“He was the kind of guy, that if you had a daughter, you’d want him to marry her,”

Well, if the radar had not knocked him off his perch it might well have fried his ‘nads so he likely could not have fathered any children.


4 posted on 10/01/2014 8:39:26 PM PDT by miele man
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Most of us do stupid dangerous things when we are kids, and most of us get away with it. The only ones I know that didn’t do stupid dangerous things were the very timid who were afraid to take a risk.


5 posted on 10/01/2014 8:43:13 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: BenLurkin

“He got a thing that’s called radar death”


6 posted on 10/01/2014 8:44:52 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: freedumb2003

I fell out of a truck window going about 50 mph onto the highway head first did several high speed somersaults before coming to a stop. My clothes were in tatters and I was scraped up but I walked away. I was about 21, and yes I was drunk as hell. My being drunk and stupid caused the whole thing.

Guardian angel? Yes, I do believe in them.


7 posted on 10/01/2014 8:46:13 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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“...was with a group of about five who climbed the mast on the ship, The Ecstasy,...”

So he was high on Ecstasy when he fell?


8 posted on 10/01/2014 8:46:26 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: HerrBlucher

What are the odds that the relatives of this dead buffoon will be suing the cruise line because it failed to prevent the buffoon from climbing the mast and killing himself?


9 posted on 10/01/2014 8:48:07 PM PDT by LiveFree99
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He was ashamed to have been surprised by a robot dish, so he committed suicide by leaping from a secure, safe platform.
Huey McScrewy
Dewey, Cheatham & Howe
For Carnivale Cruise Lines


10 posted on 10/01/2014 8:55:39 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: HerrBlucher
Most of us do stupid dangerous things when we are kids, and most of us get away with it. The only ones I know that didn’t do stupid dangerous things were the very timid who were afraid to take a risk.

so true... and i imagine he was one of those who were timid and did not usually take these kinds of risks, but for this one time... this is so sad... awful...

11 posted on 10/01/2014 9:07:03 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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Well your daughter would have a “Radar Lover”.


12 posted on 10/01/2014 9:12:21 PM PDT by BBell (I'm cynical and sarcastic and therefore I love Ann Coulter)
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Most of us do stupid dangerous things when we are kids, and most of us get away with it. The only ones I know that didn’t do stupid dangerous things were the very timid who were afraid to take a risk.

I did a WHOLE lot of stupid stuff when I was young. And then to top it off I joined the Marine Corps.

13 posted on 10/01/2014 9:14:07 PM PDT by BBell (I'm cynical and sarcastic and therefore I love Ann Coulter)
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To: Oliviaforever

“No more speed he’s already dead”...


14 posted on 10/01/2014 9:19:07 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and It's a GREAT life!)
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To: BenLurkin

Nice going “mentor” of the group

Idiots


15 posted on 10/01/2014 9:20:29 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: BenLurkin
Wernet was standing when a radar dish on the restricted platform started to rotate, Steve Acorn, a mentor who was with the group, told the station. The student was knocked over to the runner's track below

A mere blip on the scope of life.

17 posted on 10/01/2014 9:21:47 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Jack Hydrazine

VERY good!! :))


18 posted on 10/01/2014 9:22:12 PM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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Steve Acorn, a mentor who was with the group...

What was he mentoring them in?


19 posted on 10/01/2014 9:22:54 PM PDT by Herosmith ("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
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20 posted on 10/01/2014 9:29:10 PM PDT by Brandonmark (OWCM is The new American Minority! 11.06.12 - Day of Infamy!)
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