Post #122,241
10/21/03 5:14:14 PM
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Niagara Plunge Survivor Faces Charges
A man who went over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back and survived will be charged with illegally performing a stunt, Niagara Parks Police said Tuesday.
Kirk Jones, 40, of Canton, Mich., is the first person known to have gone over Niagara Falls without safety devices and lived. He could be fined $10,000.
[link|http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-niagara-falls-survivor,1,4708765.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed|link] lincoln
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Post #122,243
10/21/03 5:17:53 PM
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Puritans: let no good deed go unpunished.
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Post #122,298
10/21/03 11:02:41 PM
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Good deed?
The story makes it sound like he was committing suicide in a way that should have guaranteed success. Should have gone to the American side where NO thrillseekers have ever gone over - too many rocks at the bottom.
lincoln
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Post #122,272
10/21/03 6:38:47 PM
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Hydro-gravitational terrorist!
-drl
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Post #122,345
10/22/03 10:13:56 AM
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This doesn't make sense
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Post #122,347
10/22/03 10:20:53 AM
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No, it's too perilous! Just a little peril?
And then, after Sir Lancelot had rescued Sir Galahad from the devious 7 score 17 to 19 1/2 year old residents...
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Post #122,349
10/22/03 10:23:46 AM
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Master of the obvious
"I was in the water for about eight seconds ... I was immediately enveloped by what seemed like tons of water." Seemed that way, did it? ===
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Post #122,362
10/22/03 11:20:04 AM
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Too bad for him
He had the poor taste to spoil the moral of the story by surviving and even possibly enjoying it.
Giovanni
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Post #122,626
10/23/03 9:37:16 PM
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It wasn't intended to be a suicide.
He scouted the bottom looking for good landing points - then went for it.
He's from Canton - living in the Detroit area will do that to you.
I'm worried about Scott.
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Post #122,628
10/23/03 9:54:58 PM
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Thou sayest.
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-scott anderson
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Post #122,635
10/23/03 10:53:05 PM
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He keeps changing his story
but the first rendition (which I suspect to be closest to the truth) was that he just wanted to change his life and he was said to be scouting landing spots.
I see he is claiming suicide attempts in court - might be to get out of some charge or other.
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--James Gosling
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Post #122,636
10/23/03 11:03:05 PM
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No, I agree with that.
I meant about it being this area... ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #122,643
10/24/03 12:12:35 AM
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Hmm- will Ashcroft make attempted-suicide a capital offense?
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Post #122,644
10/24/03 12:17:43 AM
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Re: ...Ashcroft make attempted-suicide a capital offense?
I thought attempting suicide was already an offense, or against the law. What would make it different if it were a capital offense? Worse punishment or something?
Nightowl >8#
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Post #122,651
10/24/03 2:15:18 AM
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Ummm.. think. about. it.
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Post #122,652
10/24/03 2:15:42 AM
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Success, however, is rewarded.
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Post #122,672
10/24/03 9:04:08 AM
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Suicide attempt punishment....
Death by (choose yer favorite method)
"All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever."
1 Peter 1:24-25
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Post #122,709
10/24/03 12:36:00 PM
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Re: Suicide attempt punishment....
Death by (choose yer favorite method) Light dawns... You mean if it was a capital offense, it would be punishable by death... how ironic. Nightowl >8# "I learned to be the door, instead of the mat!" "illegitimi nil carborundum"
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Post #122,721
10/24/03 1:43:37 PM
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Re: Suicide attempt punishment....
Why not go the "Futurama" route and make Suicide Booths?
Of course in today's society if you attempt suicide you end up in a mental hospital if you survive it, a mourge if you don't.
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Post #122,726
10/24/03 2:14:44 PM
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Suicide booths? Never.
Willful destruction of government property is against the law,
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Post #122,779
10/25/03 1:18:47 AM
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Yes, spoils the taste of Soylent - downgrades it to Yellow.
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Post #122,756
10/24/03 8:39:29 PM
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Believe it or not, it used to be in England
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
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