"Firewater heap bad. As a child of India, I know about this stuff."
Posted on 01/20/2019 8:46:52 AM PST by BenLurkin
The couple – who were both born in India and living in the U.S. – died of “multiple injuries to the head, neck, chest and abdomen, sustained by a fall from a mountain,” Dr. Sung-Ook Baik, a forensic pathologist in the Stanislaus County Coroner’s Office, wrote in a Jan. 4 report, reports said.
Viswanath’s brother, Jishnu Viswanath, told the Associated Press the couple were setting up a tripod-mounted camera near the ledge of Taft Point on Oct. 23. An inquiry into how the couple fell is ongoing.
“Any deaths that happen inside the park, the National Park Service rangers do the investigation of the accident itself,” Kristie Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office, told the Mercury News of San Jose. “As far as what led up to it, that’s done by the National Park Service.”
The travel-obsessed couple detailed their lives in a now-deactivated travel blog called "Holidays and Happily Ever Afters,” where they wrote about vacations and posted photos of themselves in locales around the world.
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I remember (recently) when two idiots from a church group ignored the warning signs, jumped the safety rails and waded into the top of a water fall in Yosemite.I believe it was Bridal Veil falls. Someone was filming them, wheee isn’t this fun,the water is barely up to my knees, wheee!
Suddenly they literally disappeared from the video. Just gone, in one second literally, swept over the falls to their deaths.
“Thus the weak and the stupid are eliminated in a heartless yet necessary natural selection process.”
(Calvin and Hobbes)
"Firewater heap bad. As a child of India, I know about this stuff."
Yeah. Going through Glacier National in MT, it went from warm and fuzzy to downright scary in a blink. Keep your wits. Eat your grits.
Way to go, guys.
Confirming the stereotype of the drunken Indian.
Seriously, though, do Indians from India get drunk?
It seems rare, but I guess if they are Americanized enough it's possible.
“Now Yosemite has a new attraction: Lovers Leap.”
More like “Drunkard’s Drop”.
More Indians - being stupid.
>>Seriously, though, do Indians from India get drunk?<<
Oh HELL yeah!
Like many 3rd world country folk, Indians drink like fishes. When they get married, the wedding is a 7+ day non-stop bender.
I am in IT and the first to get sloshed at any gathering are the Indians, particularly the guys.
Oh man, their instagram oage is still up — and ironic:
https://www.instagram.com/holidaysandhappilyeverafters/?utm_source=ig_embed
And some people thought it was the flying Santini’s act.
There are. But there a lot of steep cliffs that have no barriers. You can look over the edge and look down 1,000 feet. It makes your belly turn over. I think that’s your brain telling you to back up.
Unfortunately, you only have to be wrong once.
So you’re saying this story means two H1-B visa slots just opened up?
Intoxicated and standing at the edge of a cliff. That’s the sure fire method to ensure a long, healthy life.
Drunk people have been falling off cliffs since shortly after Adam and Eve.
LOL...Elizabeth Warren-Kulkarni, a real “Indian.” Not the fake American kind.
Their Happily Ever Afters website is still up and quite cute. It is very sad that they had been drinking and not paying attention after they set up their camera and backed up to the edge of a cliff.
Thanks to the Orange Man’s Partial Federal Government Shutdown, Gravity is back with a vengeance.
The closer you get to the edge, the greater the potential for falling off.
So sad..prayers to their families. Now saying that, I have to say if you are intoxicated, don’t hike...
It needed some tweaking. :-)
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