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And the camera took a licking but kept on ticking...

John Cameron Swayze

1 posted on 09/13/2019 4:15:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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Yeah, but strap it to the spinning prop of an outboard motor and see how it does! (Remember that commercial!?)


2 posted on 09/13/2019 4:17:44 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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Butch: I’ll jump first.
Sundance: Nope.
Butch: Then you jump first.
Sundance: No, I said!
Butch: What’s the matter with you?!
Sundance: I can’t swim!
Butch: [laughing] Why, you crazy — the fall’ll probably kill ya!


3 posted on 09/13/2019 4:19:46 PM PDT by null and void (Genealogy is a funny thing. When you dig up your ancestors, you find...human beings.)
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re: “Heather Friesen, 26, had a GoPro strapped to her head as she fell down the sheer rocks at the Ka’au Crater Trail,”

We need a new category for Darwin Awards ...


4 posted on 09/13/2019 4:20:45 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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The vid, at link, is crazy.

Glad she’s okay.

Blessed.


5 posted on 09/13/2019 4:21:16 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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I live less than a mile from there. Don’t remember this in the news.


7 posted on 09/13/2019 4:25:16 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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She slipped on the “blue stuff” ...


9 posted on 09/13/2019 4:27:57 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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I did very something similar on an icy hill overlooking the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Cracked my skull good. In my defense I was 5 years old and not recording a go pro video.


12 posted on 09/13/2019 4:31:28 PM PDT by lodi90
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Did she fill out the proper ID 10 T form?


13 posted on 09/13/2019 4:31:38 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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She should find an engineer to marry and hope her kids turn out with average intelligence...


15 posted on 09/13/2019 4:32:17 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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There are some Ultra-High-Octane people out there, who require extreme circumstances before they really get excited.
I am not one of those people. At least not anymore.


16 posted on 09/13/2019 4:32:42 PM PDT by lee martell
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Wow, this woman is an idiot...


20 posted on 09/13/2019 4:48:39 PM PDT by Professional
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Darwin Award goes to.....


22 posted on 09/13/2019 4:53:18 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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And the camera took a licking but kept on ticking...

I hit 84 years old last year when I went to the VA for my annual checkup.

The oriental doc's assistant is reading off all the info on the monitor and asks, "You 84 now?" "Yes" "Gee". I nearly break up, but just say "Like Timex, I take a lickin' and keep on tickin'." He takes my wrist, looks at watch, and says "You OK".

The guy was about 30 years old and I was amazed that someone his age would know about those old ads.

25 posted on 09/13/2019 5:17:04 PM PDT by Oatka
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It’s $30 at the water park to get that kind of ride.


26 posted on 09/13/2019 5:24:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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Seems like she bounced back pretty well...


27 posted on 09/13/2019 5:46:38 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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“Heather Friesen, 26, had a GoPro strapped to her head as she fell down the sheer rocks at the Ka’au Crater Trail, cheating death — but suffering a collapsed lung, 10 broken ribs and a fractured scapula.”

That’s odd,..I’ve never found myself in that kind of situation.


28 posted on 09/13/2019 5:53:28 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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This happens all too frequently at Yosemite, with fatal results.


30 posted on 09/13/2019 6:00:14 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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31 posted on 09/13/2019 6:03:02 PM PDT by simpson96
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... cheating death — but suffering a collapsed lung, 10 broken ribs and a fractured scapula.

Until she fully heals from those injuries she hasn't cheated death yet. I pray she does but things can turn with that type of damage.

32 posted on 09/13/2019 6:03:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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I’ve just started Grey’s Anatomy (never seen it before). Somehow I feel they would be making a lot of Darwin comments. BUT...God bless her. Hope she makes the most of her potential 2nd chance.


36 posted on 09/13/2019 6:11:11 PM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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