Teen who was playing a zombie...run down and killed by bus filled with paintballers

AP via Daily Mail [UK] ^ | 11 October 2014

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A bus carrying paintball players struck and killed a Washington state man inside a zombie attraction at a corn maze in northern Idaho, authorities said Saturday.

Jeremy T. McSpadden Jr., 18, of Spokane Valley, Washington, was a role player in the "Zombie Slayer Paintball Bus" attraction at the Incredible Corn Maze in Hauser on Friday night, the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said.

Dressed as a zombie, he emerged from his hiding place and ran toward the modified school bus, but he tripped and fell in front of the rear passenger-side tires, witnesses reported.

He was run over and apparently killed instantly.

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Full title: Teen who was playing a zombie at Walking Dead-style attraction run down and killed by bus filled with paintballers

Thanks to ColdOne for the link!

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I think that the headline represents the first time in history that that particular sentence was ever formed.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Another case where a living, breathing individual was simply on a search for brains . . .

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, next time he’ll know to bring his own bus to a paintball fight!

(Too soon?)

[Jack Hydrazine]

The truth is stranger than fiction!

[NonValueAdded]

Headline makes it sound intentional

[GeronL]

Okay, this sounds like a really badly thought-out attraction

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"He was run over and apparently killed instantly."

I'll bet -- Probably resembled a burst paintball. I can barely imagine his coworkers having to come across his remainders.

Requiescat in pace.

[two134711]

There’s something really perverse on this site when the oldsters yuck it up about some poor kid who dies in an accident. Yeah, it’s a weird way to go, but he was an 18-year-old kid having fun and doing no harm to anyone. I think about my daughter who’s a year younger than this boy was and I can’t see anything humorous about it. Poor kid, to go so young. May his parents’ grief over this terrible loss not destroy their lives and I hope they find some solace.

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[LibWhacker]

So he was an employee, run down and killed while at work. I think that attraction will be out of business soon.

[discostu]

Badly designed haunt. If you’ve got vehicles for moving customers your people should never get within 20 feet of them while they’re moving.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

There’s something really perverse on this site when the oldsters yuck it up about some poor kid who dies in an accident.

[KoRn]

Yeah, I have to agree.

I have as sick of a sense of humor as anyone, but when you leave out all of the stupid details(which are irrelevant to what happened), a young man was run over and killed by a bus.

The media just added in all of that information to generate clicks, while it probably had nothing to do with the accident. All it did was make light of, and trivialize the kid’s death. Bastards.

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I admit it, I was thinking that.

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Call it gallows humor.

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True dat.

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Every innovation has a few bugs.

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Those busses are mean.

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Good guess.