[freebilly]

This is the nightmare of most parents-- that their kid will be seriously injured doing something dumb.

[LoneGOPinCT]

Our sympathy goes out to the friends and families of those involved. How sad.

But, would it be too disrespectful if I were to nominate them for a Darwin Award?

[Norse]

Hi, i'm Johnny Knoxville, welcome to Jackass

[freebilly]

Counselors were on all three campuses Tuesday to help students and staff deal with grief. At Branciforte, students dedicated an afternoon variety show to Vargas, and at a sixth-grade dinner, Sierra’s classmates planned to light a candle in his memory.

Simple prayers would be nice, but this is the public school system and it's Santa Cruz, so let's have grief counseling and light a candle....

[zx2dragon]

We used to hold onto the back (and off to the side) of a vehicle and only did this in cul de sacs. The worst thing that ever happened was a skinned knee.

Children will do dumb things. Unfortunately this one never got the chance to learn from the mistake, hopefully others will.

[BADROTOFINGER]

This is known as a form of 'hookybobbin', something that we used to do as kids when there was ice on the roads. Wait till a car came, run up behind it, grab the bumper, and ride the ice. Pretty stupid, but we were kids. But we werent exactly trying to achieve terminal velocity, either...JFK

[laotzu]

It would be wrong to further prosecute/persecute the driver.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Kids are going to stupid things - that's a given. Luckily, most of us survive...

Heck, I remember tying those red plastic sleds to the bumpers of cars, and doing 80+ down the freeway in Vermont on cold winters nights... Dumb? Heck yeah, but fun...

[whereasandsoforth]

Boys will indeed be boys. Sometimes a boy being a boy gets killed. Young people think they are invincible. What a shame.

[Xenalyte]

I blame Marty McFly, myself.

[NormsRevenge]

Any bets both of these young fellas were Products of the liebral socialist edukational system in California or that they just saw 2 Fast 2 Furious, a movie that has already claimed a number of young lives since it was released?

[Conservative til I die]

Ha ha ha.

[wjcsux]

We used to ski the Grand Canal in Phoenix. You tie a rope to a car and have it drive alongside the canal and you ski behind it. My cousins, brothers and myself had great fun at this until my uncle caught us, and beat our butts real good.

[tdadams]

This is the nightmare of most parents-- that their kid will be seriously injured doing something dumb.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Hold muh bumper and watch this ! *ping*

[sadmum]

It is a parents worst nightmare.I know, because I live the reality of it every day.And I wonder if the idiots who dare to nominate this tragedy for the Darwin award have spared a thought for the parents who have had to bury this child and how heartbreaking it is to experience the soul destroying grief that comes with losing a teenager.My heart goes out to the members of this boys family.I'm sure that all of us have made bad decisions in our life but not all of us have paid the ultimate price.

[Hot Tabasco]

A ‘‘car surfing’’ accident

I thought I was going to read about another landshark attack...

[csvset]

Back in the 30's , my father and his brothers would hop on and hang on to the back of streetcars and hitch a free ride. He said the conductors would try to smack their hands with a iron bar, and they'd jump off.

Part of the risk involved. Nowadays, I suppose one would sue the transit company.