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12-year-old North Carolina boy dies after fall from rock-climbing wall
NYDailynewsjune 22 ^ | June 22, 2019

Posted on 06/22/2019 5:27:19 AM PDT by SMGFan

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Example of their climbing wall. Don't know if the one at this
facility was exactly like this one.


21 posted on 06/22/2019 7:15:35 AM PDT by deport
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To: AnalogReigns

He has a NetFlix special.


22 posted on 06/22/2019 7:21:24 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: SMGFan

He must have landed just the wrong way. Sounds exactly like a neighbor. He was riding a dirt bike up the gravel road, chasing his cousin’s dog home. Looked like he was trying to touch the dog’s tail with his front tire. Dog lost traction and ended up against the front tire, guy turned front wheel too sharp, too quick and went over the handle bars. I watched it happen and it didn’t seem like a bad fall but his breathing wasn’t right and he was unconscious. They airlifted him but I guess both lungs had collapsed. Took 35 minutes for the ambulance to get here and then another 30 to get to the chopper. Obviously, he was brain dead long before the ambulance even got here. We’re kinda rural. He was a little overweight and soft around the middle.

I’ve fallen or been flung that far before. No damage except for scrapes and sore wrists or elbows depending on which side I landed on.

Me and a childhood friend used to climb a pine tree that had to be 60 foot tall at least. We’d go so high the thing was swaying back and forth a few feet with the wind. 4 inch diameter trunk up there. Gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it now. I think most boys and some girls should/could have been dead a few times over. A Lot of people have cheated death more than once. Some people don’t.


23 posted on 06/22/2019 7:44:19 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: deport

Perhaps when he fell off his head hit another child already in the blocks. Note they say he had “brain-related injuries”.


24 posted on 06/22/2019 7:48:14 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Pollard

When I graduated from high school, my mother told me that she always thought I wouldn’t live long enough for that day. Many times she told me, “Angels watch over children and fools”.


25 posted on 06/22/2019 8:12:51 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Pollard

” A Lot of people have cheated death more than once.”

Is there anyone who cannot be thankful for “getting away” with something that could have been a disaster ? I can think of more than just one....


26 posted on 06/22/2019 8:25:37 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: litehaus

By the Grace of God. Nothing else explains the odds beaten.


27 posted on 06/22/2019 8:34:50 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: deport

The two on the left might crumple and get serious injury if they fell.


28 posted on 06/22/2019 8:36:27 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: nevergore

Good point.

5.56mm


29 posted on 06/22/2019 8:36:52 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: GingisK

I always heard it as children and drunkards.


30 posted on 06/22/2019 8:37:19 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: GingisK

Hi.

“Angels watch over children and fools”.

This is true because I have been both. St. Michael protect us in battle...

5.56mm


31 posted on 06/22/2019 8:41:57 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: sphinx
I used to climb up sheer quarry walls at that age --

Me too but I have a deep pool of water under me should I fall. Then I jumped into it after the climb

Climbed trees too but most had lots of branches..
32 posted on 06/22/2019 9:03:20 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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To: SMGFan

Expect to see a ‘Matthew’s Law’ soon.


33 posted on 06/22/2019 9:04:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: EEGator

Nope, not even if the women of my dreams are on top.

Nope.


34 posted on 06/22/2019 9:04:44 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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To: Pollard
Me and a childhood friend used to climb a pine tree that had to be 60 foot tall at least.

Got lots of pines trees in our mother's yard like that. Lotsa easy branches to reach the top.(Oh, I helped plant them when we were kids.) Too old to climb but my nephew and his friend did and got poison ivy for his efforts.

Tried to warn him not to but, city kid.


35 posted on 06/22/2019 9:10:28 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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To: jocon307

Just another poorly-written with no research story by someone who masquerades as a reporter.


36 posted on 06/22/2019 9:22:20 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: EEGator

No. Never.


37 posted on 06/22/2019 9:24:30 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Pollard

Many years ago when a buddy and I were sharing a house I let him get on my bike in the backyard. That was a big mistake.

He hit the throttle too hard and brought the front end up and panicked and held onto the throttle. The bike went about 10 or 15 feet and fell in one direction and he fell in the other. It didn’t look like much of a fall or anything. He ended up with a diagonal break in the upper part of his leg and spent 10 weeks in traction followed by 3 months in a full leg cast.


38 posted on 06/22/2019 9:27:33 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: SMGFan

Sad. RIP.


39 posted on 06/22/2019 1:09:18 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: GingisK

Many times she told me, “Angels watch over children and fools.”

“and drunks.”

I fell from the top of a jungle gym when I was showing off. I was 9. My dad said it was a good thing I hit the back of my head on the lower rung instead of the asphalt. IIRC went to nurses office got cut swabbed out and my mom took me home. Was at school climbing on jungle gym the next day.


40 posted on 06/22/2019 1:29:58 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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