Posted on 05/15/2013 7:28:17 AM PDT by dennisw
Also be careful all you bicycle riders. There are much more idiots driving these days than a few decades ago. A friend of mine got hit on his bicycle by a young uninsured driver who has so little to his name no lawyer will sue him. My friend got his shoulder messed up and is getting better....slowly
Tragic, sad, stupid and pointless all at the same time.
That’s why your mama always said, “Don’t play with your ball near traffic...”
Dumbass didn’t make it very far did he?
I figured he would have been most in peril when he got to Mexico and El Salvador.....and not from trucks.
He was going to walk 6000 miles in flip flops?
Darwinism at its finest . . .
what an idiot, to dribble a soccer ball that far in only a year? He certainly had issues with math didn’t he?
I have walked along the highway where he was hit. Pedestrians have to be very careful as traffic is fast and few walk there. All along the coastal highways in the Northwest it is not safe.
Ahh, ok. That's important.
Everywhere I have lived, walking on any freeway/highway is illegal because of the danger you described.
This man was incredibly stupid, and paid for his stupidity with his life.
Walking, riding a bike, or even a motorcycle, along the twisty coastal highways in Oregon is never a good a idea.
Real-time GPS tracker of soccer player Richard Swanson, who was trying to dribble a One World Futbol from Seattle to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the 2014 World Cup. He was hit by a car and killed in Lincoln City, Ore.
We need sensitivity training to overcome increasingly vicious anti-soccer attitudes in this country ....
Whoops.
Is this guy a candidate for a Darwin Award?
The driver may have been trying to avoid an elk or deer.
Is it possible the ball got away from him and he stepped into traffic trying to retrieve it when he was hit? Focusing on the ball instead of situation awareness.
The wording is “plowed into him.” Notice little info in the story, lots of non important things.
Not only that, but if he loses the ball in traffic and causes an accident...
Can't tell if this was meant seriously, or as a joke.
Taken as a joke, it is pretty funny.
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