[Hojczyk]

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DAM STUPID Idiot stag-do Brit arrested after becoming first person to survive swim over Hoover Dam’s deadly turbines

[a fool in paradise]

BS headline. He swam over ONE turbine. NINE were off. No plural.

[Enchante]

"Oi, come here lad"

Somehow I don't think that is precisely what the police were shouting.... doesn't sound like American idiom!

[originalbuckeye]

Lucky man, dodged the Darwin bullet.

[treetopsandroofs]

The Stupefying One-Hit Wonder Parade....

Larry Walters lived 11 more years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters

Marshall Ledbetter, 12.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Ledbetter

[slimjim12]

Is there ever a day that goes by when a drunken British tourist doesn’t do something stupid and embarrassing?

[Tenacious 1]

Do they recover anything when the bodies do get sucked through the turbines? I mean, is there a filter or anything to catch parts of the carcass? It seems like it would be a gooie mess spilled into the river on the other side. I suppose it would be sufficiently diluted and make good feed for wildlife.

[Haiku Guy]

Would have been a shame if he got sucked into a turbine. You can damage a blade that way...

[Bon of Babble]

WoW. I know it's brutally hot there but that's a heck of a way to cool off.

Fool!

(but this will get him TV appearances and possibly a book and movie deal)>

[Bon of Babble]

Might as well post his photo:

Now he'll make the talk show rounds.

[scottinoc]

Not as bold as this guy

[the OlLine Rebel]

“in the middle of a 37-hour booze bender, superhuman Arron”

Wow, just in the last 2 weeks I’ve been hearing about British travelers.

Once again, booze and drunkeness is mentioned.

[Bigg Red]

‘Oi, come here lad.’

***
Got a chuckle out of imagining that coming out of the mouth of an American policeman.

[ClearCase_guy]

As a test of physical ability, I’d say he passed.
But he failed the Intelligence Test.

[tumblindice]

Mad dogs and Englishmen ...

[minnesota_bound]

I am guessing he would have been sucked under then gone thru the intake mesh and come out like hamburger. The fish would have been happy.

[dfwgator]

Interviewer: Er, Mr Verccotti, what do you say to people who accuse you of exploiting Ron for your own purposes?

Mr Vercotti: Well, it's totally untrue, David. Ever since I left Sicily I've been trying to do the best for Ron. I know what Ron wants to do, I believe in him and I'm just trying to create the opportunities for Ron to do the kind of things he wants to do.

Interviewer: And what's he going to do today?

Mr Vercotti: He's going to split a railway carriage with his nose. (screams off)

(Cut to a hillside; Vercotti, interviewer, and in the background a banner: 'Running to Mercury'.)

Mr Vercotti: The only difficult bit for Ron is getting out of the Earth's atmosphere. Er, once he's in orbit he'll be able to run straight to Mercury.

(A heavily bandaged Ron leaps off starting platform: freeze frame. Scream. Cut to a tombstone: 'Ron Obvious 1941-1969 - very talented', Pull back to show Vercotti.)

Mr Vercotti: I am now extremely hopeful that Ron will break the world record for remaining underground. He's a wonderful boy this, he's got this really enormous talent, this really huge talent.

[SIDENET]

He’s dam lucky that it didn’t suck him in like a Hoover.

[RegulatorCountry]

That was when I heard the police shouting ‘Oi, come here lad.’

Well, no, I don't think that's what they shouted.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Darwin aside, that’s a pretty cool “What I did on my vacation” story.

In his defense, he probably had little or no idea of the danger he ran of becoming chopped liver.