Posted on 07/20/2011 12:40:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Edited on 07/20/2011 12:53:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Several people in a hiking group at Yosemite that included three who were swept away and presumed dead had climbed over a barricade and were in the water about 25 feet from the edge of a waterfall, standing, playing and taking photographs, witnesses told Yosemite rangers.
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Then we can laugh and laugh and laugh.
Good for you!
Life is fatal. It just tends to be shorter for the stupid.
Oh, wait...
That guardrail extends quite a ways back. One would have to clearly be on the wrong side of it to approach withing 25 ft of the falls.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams
I do not wish to do so.
I’ll take your word for it.............;^)
Reminds me of the entrance to the cave at Silver Springs, FL: it’s a cavern dive that leads to a cave, and there’s a sign that says, “This is a cave in which 18 divers have died. Do not enter without proper equipment”. When I was there, the 18 was marked out in nail polish and “19” was painted next to it.
Chilling - cured me of any desire to go in.
Colonel, USAFR
3..2..1 before the first lawsuit is filed....wanna bet?
Holy Crap !
That first step is a doosey.
I am sorry , you would have to be a complete idiot to climb over that fence.
God rest their soul.
Rail or no rail, they were IN the water (25 ft from the edge), laughing, playing, taking photos, etc.
There is NO warning against that.
It’s that mentality some people have that they can do whatever they want because the rules don’t apply to them. They must be special in a way the rest of us aren’t because they say to themselves, “it doesn’t mean ME”! I’m overly sensitive to these kind of people I suppose because I always follow the rules (well, most of the time) and get laughed at because I’m a goody goody and I need to loosen up!
Which gives the relevance to my Douglas Adams quote in the same post.
Looks kind of rocky at the bottom.
What?
Is that the rail they hopped over?????
...it was only a matter of time for people that stupid
Wonder if they were trying to emulate the Devil’s Pool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu5nlu4IBN8&feature=related
Maybe a sign listing how many people have been swept over and died?
From the book “Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite”
“Entering any significant stream which flows over a waterfall-regardless of any sense of security inherent in what might seem like a ‘safe’ distance between one’s entry point and the fall-is a proven killer... The power of moving water, even knee deep, has carried hundreds of people to their doom in the Sierra Nevada... The shorelines of these streams are of finely polished rock which is smooth and very slippery even when dry. When wet the rock becomes extremely slick. When wet and also with algae growing on it the water’s edge becomes unbelievably tricky, worse than a melting sheet of ice. Hence the warning signs and safety railings so far from the actual stream... It is probably safer to jump into the ocean with a great white shark than to tempt fate above a high waterfall in Yosemite.”
Do you think the guardrail should go all the way back to the parking lot?
Are the signs in Spanish? If not, I smell a big, fat lawsuit.
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