Posted on 09/20/2014 11:33:53 AM PDT by rey
LOUISVILLE — A central Kentucky firefighter injured in an "ice bucket challenge" has died a month after a power line shocked him and another man.
Campbellsville Fire Chief Kyle Smith says 41-year-old Tony Grider died Saturday. Grider was a captain with the department on Aug. 21. He and 22-year-old firefighter Simon Quinn were on the fire truck's ladder when it got too close to a power line after dumping water on Campbellsville University's marching band in the charity stunt to raise awareness for the disease ALS.
Quinn was released from the hospital Sept. 15.
Two other firefighters were injured, but were released from the hospital.
Campbellsville University, a private college, is a Christian institution that has about 3,600 students, according to its website. It is about 65 miles south of Louisville.
Ditto what you said.
Dreadful. RIP.
All this “awareness” stuff ... guys, have you ever seen a “prostrate awareness month?” - people who don’t live in their parents basement are “aware” of afflictions that harm or kill people.
This has nothing to do with the fund raising.
What is strange about this story is that the firemen that should have been the experts involved, managed to pull off acting like the “hold my beer” guys, and the Captain killed himself through his own job work related incompetence.
How do legitimate firefighters get their cherry picker too close to a power line? And guys die because of it. I have my own suspicions
>>Being aware does not aid in a cure.<<
This awareness campaign raised over $100 million dollars (http://www.alsa.org/news/media/press-releases/ice-bucket-challenge-082914.html) — 50 times what they got in the same period the prior year.
The stunt morphed from “donate OR ice bucket” to “donate AND ice bucket” (although really only 10% have donated, but it still more than doubled donations).
Prostate
You made me laugh. I can’t wait to see a run for the butt holes event.
However, prostrate awareness, one could argue, might aid in early detection and treatment and therefore save a life.
Unfortunately there is no edit feature here. My spell check didn’t catch it and I noticed it after I hit post. I shall save this reply for the next hundred or so people who bring this to my attention. I wanted to write: PROSTATE!
Or even PROSTATE awareness...
It appears that the bucket challenge is sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), not the ALS folks
http://mda.org/disease/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis?iq_id=70605366&source_code=140802AAAC030724_-VQ16-c
Other research indicates that 25% of each dollar raised goes to overhead for the MDA.
Unfortunately there is no edit feature here. My spell check didn’t catch it and I noticed it after I hit post. I shall save this reply for the next hundred or so people who bring this to my attention. I wanted to write: PROSTATE!
Unfortunately there is no edit feature here. My spell check didn’t catch it and I noticed it after I hit post. I shall save this reply for the next hundred or so people who bring this to my attention. I wanted to write: PROSTATE!
LOL!
What the campaign raised was the rate of people behaving foolishly while somehow justifying it in their minds. And sorry, but I am highly skeptical of the many millions raised by cancer, heart disease and ALS reasearch, to name a few. That’s nice they got their money, but count me out.
For a brief time, the NFL had a prostate cancer awareness month but then it disappeared into a sea of pink. You’d think all the breast cancer awareness stuff would be held during the WNBA season, but, no. They’ve bullied their way into men’s sports.
LMAO.
Are you kidding? I’m the malaprop king. Auto spellcheck only enhances my abilities.
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