Motorcyclist dies after falling from Santa Clarita [CA] mall parking structure while performing tricks: LASD

ktla ^ | Cindy Von Quednow, additional reporting by Matt Phillips

[shoff]

I’ve seen a lot of videos of these motorcycle antics. I think it’s like “Hold my EBT card and fire up your Obama phone”.

[Olog-hai]

The woman was believed to be learning to ride the motorcycle from her friends when she fell off the parking garage.

Looks like this might be a tragedy and not an amateur stunt-hack.

And the Darwin Award rules are not about “cull(ing) the herd” but (as they put it) improving the gene pool by selecting to remove oneself from it by means of a remarkable lapse in judgment; herd culling is about population numbers versus genetics.

[atc23]

It was a chick not a “He”

[refermech]

Best way to learn is on a dirtbike in the wide open spaces. You can still die, but its a lot harder.

[TexasGator]

“At least try to make a cohesive argument; I don’t think I’m being pedantic by equating endangering people with injuring/killing them.”

BIG DIFFERENCE!

[Vaduz]

Indeed it’s a shame when women start to have a hey watch this moments.

[higgmeister]

lighten up, Francis

[Olog-hai]

. . . says the one who went after me, lol 😝 Have a good one . . .

[Olog-hai]

Cryptic reply. Wherein are you differentiating?

[TexasGator]

“Wherein are you differentiating?”

Life and death. Do you need more explaining?

[Olog-hai]

No, because you are not being clear. Putting others in danger is still a Darwin disqualifier, since the rules stipulate “self-selection”.

Besides, since it appears the victim was learning to ride from (alleged) friends, this seems to be a tragedy.

[TexasGator]

” Putting others in danger is still a Darwin disqualifier, since the rules stipulate “self-selection”.”

Your post makes no since.

[TexasGator]

Besides, since it appears the victim was learning to do stunts from (alleged) friends,

[higgmeister]

Yes, I should have said "lighten up, Francis" after your first post.

The thing is, the Darwin Awards are a form of gallows humor and rank right up there in inappropriateness with "little moron jokes" and "crazy bow-legged Chinese rhymes."   Because of that, anyone that wants to constrain them with rules is on a "fool's errand."

[Olog-hai]

Well, the website did exactly that. Given that the “awards” started on newsgroups as far back as 1985, I can certainly dig deeper into it and see if the purported website is trying to change things from what they were originally.