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Like lemmings to a cliff
BBC | Submitted by: Crapola
"Tombstoning is madness whichever way you look at it. An individual has no real idea what's under the water they are jumping in." ... Meanwhile: Pelican Attack!
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From: gargoyle1
Date: 12-May-2008 14:15
Fuckem, let them swan dive into an empty swimming pool. Pelican article, if the woman hadn't smelled like sardines the pelican prolly wouldn't have attacked her.
From: studgerbil
[Stud]
Date: 12-May-2008 14:19
"This is one way to ruin not only a pleasant afternoon for yourself, but very possibly the rest of your life." I love the British. Yes, it was a pleasant afternoon until he died. But enough of this unpleasantness ... and now, Page 3.
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 12-May-2008 14:29
I got a buddy who did this and now quadraplegic, has only two working fingers left. Another buddy made him a roachclip with 2 loops in the handle so at least he could enjoy life a little. I welded it up for them.
From: ohhellno
[steve-vo]
Date: 12-May-2008 15:12
Ahhh..... To be young and still have that 'I cant die/nothing can hurt me' way of thinking in life..... But then again, they were surfers. That explains alot.
From: patsystonecheers
[Patsy Stone]
Date: 12-May-2008 15:46
All I am picturing now is Elmer Fudd jumping off the high high high high high diving board into a thimble of water, egged on by Bugs Bunny. ps., All my informative years were spent watching Looney Tunes.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 12-May-2008 15:53
Jesus Murphy......somewhat reminiscent of a young and foolish DD! Diving from waterfalls into Texas rivers of undetermined depth and rockiness, jumping from unpumbed stone quarries, swimming out to the fourth sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico.......madness indeed!
From: texasman1000 [texas]
Date: 12-May-2008 16:27
Some times your the windshield,.. some times your the bug, LOL! let them die.
From: psychobeth [Psycho]
Date: 12-May-2008 16:43
What is tombstoning, exactly? All I can see in my head is guys jumping into the water on old stone tombstones...
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 12-May-2008 16:49
What do you want on your Tomestone? Err...Sausage, and X-tra cheese please!
From: sawgunner [Doug]
Date: 12-May-2008 17:35
Perhaps the bloke couldn't swim, so he had to jump into 3 feet of water. It's just like you Anti-Shallowaquaphiles to make fun of another person's culture. We should all respect the right of these people to swan dive into puddles. In fact, it is time we gave employment preferences to such folks because they are so different from the rest of us.
From: ferret [Honkey Kong]
Date: 12-May-2008 18:23
before reading the article, i had guessed Tombstoning was something else altogether 
From: inhalien
[Chevy Chase]
Date: 12-May-2008 20:40
I've jumped literally dozens of times from cliffs up to 70 feet high, and you never jump without checking the water below. I've hit bottom a couple times, both from bridge jumping into a river without checking the depth first. Once I twisted my ankle, the other time I jarred my spine, but was okay. I'll always remember the story of the young girl who dove off a pier and broke her neck when she hit bottom. Her brother thought she was joking around while she floated under the water, unable to move, screaming. She was rescued and can now paint lovely portraits with a paintbrush in her mouth but it really freaked me out so you do have to be careful.
From: patsystonecheers
[Patsy Stone]
Date: 12-May-2008 21:12
<<She was rescued and can now paint lovely portraits with a paintbrush in her mouth but it really freaked me out so you do have to be careful. >> I saw that documentary. She went diving off a pier. Either she hit bottom OR she hit the stump of a pier submerged under water. EIther way, I will never dive anywhere but in a pool.
From: hippityhopp
[bunny meat is good!]
Date: 12-May-2008 22:58
Admittedly I've done lots of stupid and near fatal shit as a teen. But I've also done my best to assure my last words are not "Oh Fuuuuuuuuck!" Just the sensible side of me winning over I guess....
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 13-May-2008 00:26
I've jumped literally dozens of times from cliffs up to 70 feet high, and you never jump without checking the water below. ----------------- Sure asshole, that's always appropriate during a canoe trip down the Rio Grande, Guadulupe or San Antonio rivers (as if everything is known)......always a fucking wanne be idiot who has professional enginieers to confirm the drop AND muddy the pools. Ever do anything in 'visceral' terms as a young man? (Danger, inadvised women, law enforcement, ?) If you can get by it.....THEN empiricism beckons.
From: timmyturtle [tim t turtle]
Date: 13-May-2008 00:26
a rednecks famous last words "hold my beer and watch this !!"
From: sp00k
Date: 13-May-2008 08:59
One of the victims was rescued by lifeguards after plunging 30ft (9.1m) from a cliff into 3ft (0.9m) of water at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, on Saturday. ======== 30 foot dive into 3 feet of water. Baaaahahahahaha, thats some funny shit right there.
From: inhalien
[Chevy Chase]
Date: 13-May-2008 10:32
Indeed, Cameron Vale. I once jumped off a cliff without looking, one that I had before, thinking I was cool. Missed going through the bottom of a passing canoe by about 2 feet. Good times.
From: ciaochowbella
[I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 13-May-2008 11:23
From: sp00k Date: 13-May-2008 08:59 One of the victims was rescued by lifeguards after plunging 30ft (9.1m) from a cliff into 3ft (0.9m) of water at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, on Saturday. ======== 30 foot dive into 3 feet of water. Baaaahahahahaha, thats some funny shit right there. ------------------- Indeed it is......I would imagine he is much shorter now.....and immobile.
From: fucktardmama [fook-me]
Date: 13-May-2008 11:58
From: patsystonecheers [Patsy Stone] Date: 12-May-2008 15:46 All I am picturing now is Elmer Fudd jumping off the high high high high high diving board into a thimble of water, egged on by Bugs Bunny. ps., All my informative years were spent watching Looney Tunes - - - - - - - - Mine too Patsy. That is why we have such kene intileckshual minds.
From: sp00k
Date: 13-May-2008 13:35
 July 31 TOKYO, Japan-- Darren Taylor, otherwise known as Professor Splash, have set the new world Record for the highest shallow dive: 10.70 meters (35 feet) into 30 centimeters (12 inches) of water into a kiddy pool. In an interview with 9NEWS, Professor Splash said his technique is to "skip accross the water" when he makes contact with it.
From: fucktardmama [fook-me]
Date: 13-May-2008 14:59
Norace, Orthopeadics sucks almost as much as emergency department. Where I work, these people wouldn't go to ortho. They would go to Trauma floor and then to long term rehab.
From: azdollarbill [Jim Jones]
Date: 13-May-2008 15:21
I remember one time we were at a swimming hole. The water was just deep enough to jump in from about 15 feet, and just barely touch bottom. Some bikers showed up, and one guy was about to jump from about 50 feet. Thinking about it, he asked me if that was a good idea. I told him, only if he was tired of living. He thought about it, some more, and came down to the lower spot. I am glad that he did that, because I really didn't feel like pulling his lifeless body out...
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 13-May-2008 17:01
Well gee, Mama speak fer yer own crummy hospital.  On MY floor, 3 North.. You'll find the BEST RN's Docs and CNA's.. Best GOD DAMN care in the USA. I keep tellin ya ta leave that Shithole place you work at and come to Nothern Arizona.. Where the STAFF parking is FREE.
From: fucktardmama [fook-me]
Date: 13-May-2008 17:43
Norace, When I worked on the ortho floor, we would have up to 13 patients on the night shift. Sometimes we would have one aide, sometimes 3. Sometimes we did charge and precepted a new person at the same time. And with 13 patients, inevitably because they were ortho pt's. a few would be getting blood products. It SUCKED! I can't go to Arizona, no matter how tempting. No good youth hockey programs.
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 13-May-2008 21:51
Our night shift MAX is 5 patients. I usually work with 4 surgicals and 1 or 2 discharges in 8hrs. We have 1 to 10 Nurse's aide ratios as well. Full service IV team, etc,, Are yer sure Hockey worth all that? Besides.. We also (McLively Center).. have a Ice Rink in town believe it or not. We have hockey. And no terrorists give a shit about here.
From: sp00k
Date: 13-May-2008 22:42
We used to swim in water filled quarries all the time. Those actually seemed quite safe, vertical rock walls and god knows how deep, 100+ feet? The dangerous part is ice cold water and no one around for miles. The highest we could dive was probably 30 feet, just as well, I wouldn't want to dive from much higher than that anyway - hit just a bit off vertical and it hurts like hell.
From: ferret [Honkey Kong]
Date: 14-May-2008 13:01
 no more talk we update rotten "daily" now!
Updated: 14-May-2008 13:19
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