Swimmer carrying rock drowns on (his 21st) birthday

SFGate.com ^ | 5/26/15 | Mike Moffitt

[NormsRevenge]

A swimmer trying cross a wildlife-area pond while holding a large rock drowned Monday in Oroville.

California Highway Patrol officers said Austin Harr of Gridley was celebrating his 21st birthday with a swim at the dredger ponds when he sank below the surface about 5 p.m.

[NormsRevenge]

I don't remember my 21st, heck, I don't remember most of em.. but I never would have wanted to go out this way.

RIP

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Poor fella died in the shallow end of the gene pool.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Darwin Award Winner

[cripplecreek]

Like a monkey with his fist in a hole.

[Snickering Hound]

[manc]

Just no common sense anymore

[fwdude]

Did he forget to drop the rock?

[GSWarrior]

Was his name Sisyphus?

[Ray76]

Gee, I’m starting to go down. Better drop the rock.

[hadaclueonce]

play stupid games, win stupid prizes...

[EEGator]

Reference win...though Sisyphus pushed the boulder forever...this guy, not so much.

[Doogle]

[Veggie Todd]

Do they mean a real rock (from the earth) or a rock of crack cocaine?

[Responsibility2nd]

“Hold muh beer and watch me swim across this pond.”

“Uhh, shouldn’t I hold your rock instead?

“Nahh (hiccup) I got this.”

[smokingfrog]

Hold my beer and gimmie that rock!

I’m goin’ for a swim....

[driftdiver]

Sounds like he was in the deep end of the gene pool. Or maybe he didn’t realize he could just stand up.

(or let go of the rock)

[SamAdams76]

An excerpt was scarcely necessary as the article itself was a total about about 60 words - saying absolutely nothing except some dude drowned on his 21st birthday by trying to cross a river while carrying a rock.

So much more to know, so little information provided.

Such is the sorry state of "journalism" these days.

[Doogle]

"..learn the backstroke"

[momtothree]

21st birthday... sounds like he drank till three sheets to the wind and did something stupid.

[Berlin_Freeper]

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