Teens Leaping For Thrills In 'Garage Jumping' Trend

[chickenscratching]

**i really don't like that last bit that a fence would have prevented this from happening, what are we 5? its not the garage owners' fault, it's the teens eh? take a bit o' personal responsibilty
also, did anyone play 'hot lava' when you were little? jumping from furniture piece to furniture piece? this is definitely the revamped version


Teens Leaping For Thrills In 'Garage Jumping' Trend

POSTED: 2:52 pm EST February 28, 2005
UPDATED: 3:34 pm EST March 1, 2005

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Teenagers in Orlando, Fla., are leaping between 80-foot high public parking garages in a new trend called "garage jumping," according to a Local 6 News investigation.

Local 6 News reported that the thrill seekers are vaulting themselves between garages in downtown Orlando.

Tim Bargfrede told Local 6 News that he was following friends when he attempted to garage jump and did not make it to the other side. Bargfrede fell six stories and was knocked unconscious on impact.

"I just didn't make it," Bargfrede said

Since Bargfrede fell, the City of Orlando erected a partial fence but there's still room for someone to take a dangerous dive.

The family says that's not good enough and that both garages need to take responsibility before a garage jumper loses his life.

complete story: http://www.local6.com/money/4239256/detail.htm

[mwb970]

1. It's called "thinning the herd". (n/t)

[chickenscratching]

6. ahh yes, natural selection works in mysterious ways....n/t

[Tempest]

18. Future Darwin Award winners

More power to them.

As long as they post the video on the Internet when they crash and burn.

[trotsky]

2. No excuse for having stupid kids.

I'm sorry, but my bleeding heart only bleeds so much.

Shit, that kid who fell six stories is lucky to be alive. Although taking himself out of the gene pool may not have been such a bad thing.

[everythingsxen]

3. Dude! I totally wanna win a Darwin award today! (eom)

[InternalDialogue]

4. Mankind's greatest downfall?

In nature, the gibbons that take ill-advised leaps from too-tall trees or that misjudge their distance fail to propagate. And they don't sue the jungle.

How do we breed so many idiots?

[BeeBee]

5. Darwin Award anyone?

"The family says that's not good enough and that both garages need to take responsibility before a garage jumper loses his life."

Um... how about the jumper taking responsibility?

[Ready4Change]

17. Or the family taking responsibility.

The garage isn't the one who raised a fool.

[InternalDialogue]

7. And I still play "hot lava"

Nothing wrong with a healthy fear of the floor now and then.

[chickenscratching]

12. hell yea. glad to see youre keeping a classic alive! :) n/t

[SmokingJacket]

8. They should put up some signs to cover their asses...

and let nature take its course.

It's impossible to rid the world of all imaginable risk --

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Remember, it ain't Darwinian if they've had kids

The problem is that early reproduction is a bad Human value and a good Darwinian value.

I plan to wait until I have at least two kids in therapy before I start doing lame-ass, life-threatening stunts.

--p!

[dweller]

10. "but Maaaa......

all my friends are doing it"

and she'd say, "and if all your friends were jumping offa cliff, does that mean you should???


how many times did you hear this growing up?
dp

[ucmike]

11. i hate to say it but...

i saw an MTV piece a few weeks ago about "Extreme Running" (or something like it) about some europeans who run around urban settings vaulting off of stuff and over stuff and under stuff. some of their film has been used in tv commercials. it looked cool, so i went out and jumped across my planter boxes afterward.

i wouldn't blame mtv. teens are just stupid.

[chickenscratching]

14. no kidding

when youre acne laden, fidgety & have a squeaky voice you're bound to do something stupid.

[Ezlivin]

13. But what message does this send to the children?

By printing that information in a paper that could be read by any child not publicly schooled, they risk sending the wrong message to children.

How long before toddlers decide its okay to fling themselves from one bed to another, or out of a window in a moving car?

This could lead to bedlam.

All in jest, naturally.

[chickenscratching]

16. oh god....

you got me there for a second! :) i am wayyyyy too gullible. or maybe just realistic, i guess i wouldn't be too suprised if someone said that on a serious level. :crazy:

[NV Whino]

15. Next thing you know they'll be banning Spiderman n/t

[Cuban_Liberal]

19. Darwin was right.

Let's hope they don't reproduce.

[sweetheart]

20. "Everyone falls the first time."

uuuhhh... beavis, i shoulda taken the purple microdot pill.

[VTMechEngr]

21. Ain't gravity a bitch....

Unless your a fundy, in which case, its just a theory!

[Blue Gardener]

22. Similar thing in my city

People jumping between the bridges over the river downtown. One didn't make it, so the taxpayers had to pay to install a barrier between the bridges to prevent further deaths. It's bullshit in my opinion. You can't make everything idiot-proof.

[NoPasaran]

23. It's hard to make something idiot-proof

Because idiots are so damn resourceful!

[Ezlivin]

24. They manage to make it into office, too.

I'd love to see ol' GW try some garage jumping.

[CubsFan1982]

25. Is it just me, or are kids getting stupider and stupider these days?

People are wrong: kids DO look up to the President! :P