[Ken522]

Getting into a spitting contest with someone always carries some unique risks ...

[joonbug]

Didn’t Michael Jackson hold up one of his kids over a balcony in Berlin? Must be that strong German beer...

[Thrownatbirth]

Good thing the balcony caught his fall.

[Roscoe Karns]

[DJ MacWoW]

The poor kid just saw the results of his gene pool first hand. Scarred for life I’ll bet.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Halten Sie mein Bier !!

[festus]

Well good thing it wasn’t a pissing contest.......

[Dick Vomer]

[Slings and Arrows]

Lousy article - doesn’t even tell if the guy won.

[Daffynition]

Darwin rules ... here's another contest gone bad ... egg dropping.

[martin_fierro]

A 43-year-old German man was taken to hospital in critical condition after he fell off a second storey balcony during a spitting contest with his 12-year-old son, police said Friday.

Ich bin ein badspitter.

[LibKill]

Mein Bier halten, während ich dies tue.

(Hold my beer while I do this.)

[LantzALot]

Well, this didn’t happen before he was able to pass on the “stupid” gene.

[highimpact]

6-10 years ago, a young woman attending Gonzaga University in Spokane, who I believe was a freshman at the time, died exactly this way. She was in a spitting contest from a dorm room balcony (don’t recall which floor...I think 2 or 3). She went over the edge, landed on her head on the concrete below, and died instantly at the scene. It was a real tragedy for all those who knew her.

[DancesWithCats]

Poetic justice.

(public spitting is a pet peeve of mine/and teaching his son the same charming behavior/hope he cracked his stupid skull ... maybe a little spillage of the ‘ol grey matter will work the same as the old time ‘bleed’ and improve the situation)

[Sloth]

I can’t blame the guy — if I had some German dude’s saliva in *my* mouth, I’d be desperate to eject it as far as possible, too.

[SamAdams76]

Well hopefully he won the contest. Otherwise he broke all those bones for nothing.

One time when I was young and foolish, I got into a pissing contest. Someone had an empty 64-ounce bottle of soda water at a drinking party and challenged somebody to fill it with urine. The only thing was it had to be filled all at once with a single elimination of the bladder. The host supplied a funnel like the type you use to add oil to a car. After a few spirited attempted, the best we could do was get it half full. Then we got serious and started holding it in until it hurt. One of us got it 3/4 full but not a single person in the house was able to fill it up.

I'm sure John Belushi could have done it but we didn't invite him.