Posted on 01/27/2011 7:13:23 PM PST by OneVike
Every one who knows me, or has read my articles knows that I disagree with Darwin's theory of evolution. However, this post is not about the debate between evolution and creation. This post is about those individuals around the world who yield to the idea that natural selection could possibly be a fact by attempting to or actually succeeding in removing themselves from the human gene pool. Thus by their actions, they seem to ensure that the next generation will be less susceptible to being the last generation to live on what Carl Sagan called the "Pale Blue Dot", or better known as planet earth.
"What ever happened to that voice in the back of ones head that is supposed to say,
"BAD IDEA!"
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This video leaves one with many questions. First off I could not help but wonder why this guy decided it would be a great idea to jump off the dock and into a frozen pond. Then after he decided it would be a great idea, why would he have friends video him? I guess he really wanted the world to know how stupid he is.
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Apparently it has been silenced by the voice that says, “Hey, this could get on America’s Funniest Home Videos or Youtube!”
He died?
No, but he can thank God he didn’t.
All the elements were there that could have ended up in this being a evidence in a trial if the family decided to sue the owner of the dock.
I mean, who knows in today’s world where we have congressmen suing the government cafeteria.
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***”What ever happened to that voice in the back of ones head that is supposed to say,
“BAD IDEA!”***
It was drowned out by the voice that said, “Hold my beer and watch this.”
Advice from my grandpa, passed along to my kids:
“Don’t do anything stupid. And if you have to ask yourself whether or not it’s stupid, it’s stupid.”
Looks like he was just joining the polar bear club. There’s a good chance he knew just how deep the water was and obviously he was expecting to go through the ice. They had a rope ready. He’s well-insulated. So except for the ice being a wee bit too thick, maybe he really wasn’t all that dumb.
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After watching the video, all I could think of was when I was very young and fell through some ice and I had to be rescued by my older brother. Mine was an accident, but he did it on purpose.
So I originally came way thinking how dumb.
Then when I came back to FR, I read your comment and thought about it again. So I watched the video again and decided that you make a good point.
But would you think the same thing if he ended up in intensive care with a massive brain hemorrhage due to his head hitting the ice?
Childhood is so protected now that children are not allowed to make any mistakes where they get hurt or take risks. Children raised now are way different than those raised just in the 50’s and 60’s where if you did something stupid you really got hurt. It made kids grow up coordinated and smart...they were not sitting in front of tv or video games...they were learning about environment and physics and practicing using their bodies in real world senarios.
Take for instance, teeter-totters. You really got hurt on those things but you became smarter because of it and had more common sense and attention to detail. You needed to to survive. Lawyers have ruined childhood and OSHA type government interference prevents parents from doing what is in their child’s best interest....we are forced to do the “right” thing for the lowest common denominator—otherwise, lawyers sue.
Now idiots don’t die because they do something stupid. They aren’t allowed to do anything and if it IS slightly dangerous, they are covered head to toe in protective gear.....Maybe, the Darwin thing did contain an element of truth-—about adaptation to environment.
I guess people that live where lakes don’t freeze solid for four months can leave their docks in in the winter.
Ice wasn’t THAT thick.
He was lucky he didn't go through feet first -- would have scraped his hoo-hoo clean off.
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