Posted on 05/27/2014 6:49:28 AM PDT by armydawg505
Atlanta: An 18-year-old who had graduated from high school hours earlier drowned in Lake Allatoona this weekend while playing a game in which people launch someone off a dock in a shopping cart, authorities said. Chance Werner, of Euharlee, was playing the game with other teens and an adult at Dock D at the Holiday Harbor Marina in Bartow County just before midnight on Saturday. Witnesses said he had just graduated from high school on Saturday, authorities said.
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:: A series of bad decisions and Darwin steps in to handle the situation. ::
I believe you have “Darwin” and “government welfare” confused on this one...
Which one of us out here hasn’t done something stupid and foolhardy as teens - things that could have gotten us killed?
Prayers up for the family... it sucks losing folks you love, especially losing them to something so stupid.
:: I know, I did my share. ::
How many times has God drawn me closer to him according to my selfishness!
Sola Deo Gloria.
My first thought proven wrong by a picture.
Hey, hey, hey!
I donsh haszzzzh any dribble hannlin my shelf when i’ve been dringgging!
I didn’t know that a non Amish could be a “teen”
Would you have tied the car to yourself? Evidently one normally secures a rope between the cart and a pole on the dock. This guy tied the cart to himself. When they found his body this morning he was tied to the cart in thirty feet of water.
It’s beyond time to call for shopping cart licensing and registration, including capacity limitations and biometric identification. In addition to lawsuits against the shopping cart manufacturer, which has steadfastly refused common-sense shopping-cart safety measures such as loaded cart indicators and “do not tie yourself to this and then jump in a lake that is deeper than the rope is long” notification signs.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I can think of a handful of private school educated kids who are no longer with us due to abject stupidity. I’m lucky one of them wasn’t me.
Glad to hear that there are no stupid kids in Texas, except those schooled in public schools. You guys are really lucky down there.
Tragic. Some bad decisions are fatal.
Everybody, except you. You go girl!!
Really?
It was exactly what I expected
Gee that sounds like fun...
But apparently you can make it go away.
So much stupidity, so little time.
Jackass stunt revisited. What could go wrong?
He definitely made it go away, the same way a guillotine permanently cures headaches. After all, none of the good doctor’s patients has ever sued him after being treated with his little machine.
Play stupid games... RIP.
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