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Another Darwin award candidate?
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He was on a loosing wicket when his parents christened him Kyle
Andrew
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Clearly brain dead.
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Andrew Mawson scribbled
He might have had a bad start, but became a bright spark.
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Wot, no RCD to save him?
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You've seen that YouTube video of a chap doing just that on the top of a train in india as well then...
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En el artículo , Dave Liquorice escribió:
Seared in my mind, that one.
Should show that in schools, especially in places where kids think it's cool to play on the railways.
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Dave Liquorice scribbled
Yup. World's largest candle.
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He was only 16, a kid, albeit a big one. Who here didn't do daft and dangerous stuff at that age? It's part of growing up. He and his family deserve our sympathy, not ridicule by losers who can't even spell "losing".
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'A 16-year-old boy who climbed on to a freight train has died after
*touching* overhead power lines, police have said' *Touching* the lines? Wouldn't he have been zapped well before he got within touching distance?- Vote on answer
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Really? I don't think so. I'm pleased he hasn't been able to reproduce. I laughed at his stupid fat mother who said it was "an accident".
?Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.?
? Robert A. Heinlein
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Tim+ scribbled
You'd probably think differently if the little sod was climbing over your shed or garage, went through the roof and caused a shitload of damage.
You might be tempted to kill the sod yourself.
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I recognized the quote as originating from a Sci-Fi story in relation to interplanetary space travel, possibly about mining asteroids, before I got to the attribution. I remember it from one of his stories I'd read way back in the mid sixties or early seventies.
I used to read a lot of Sci-Fi back then, usually by the more imaginative and technically knowledgeable writers able to create plausible future settings. Very few of that class of fiction known as Science Fantasy was able to hold my interest other than as an exercise in plot line demolition.
Another quotation I've never forgotten came from, AFAICR, one of a series of stories based on the activities of the "Space Engineering Corps" where the unofficial motto was,
"Give us the Job and we'll do the tools."
Anyhow, quoting such Sci-Fi 'doggerel' isn't really appropriate in this case, "Real Life", as opposed to the science fiction setting of outer space that it was taken from. Yes, it's a harshly put truth in regard of the fact that simply living carries some risk of premature death (aside from the one guarantee in life being that we're all destined to experience death one way or another).
In any case, Roger's assumption that the nominee in question qualifies for a Darwin Award may be a false one since, for all anyone knows, he may already have sired progeny. Not everyone who gets themselves killed by an act of stupidity can qualify for this very special award.
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Isn't the figure 1mm per 1kV in dryish air ?
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Drivel. Another of these out of control hooligans that move on to crime as they get older. At sixteen he should have known electricity is dangerous. Shows the value of education. Or even common sense.
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In message , Johnny B Good writes
I think the quote is: "Give us the job and we'll finish the tools." and I think it goes back many years from my dad.
Years and years ago I remember reading a science fiction short story about the discovery of a planet with no remaining life. They had built windmill generators all over it and the wind had dropped.......
I stopped reading SF in about 1962 when I stopped having to do long train journeys, so it was pretty prescient. I suppose no-one else remembers it?
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What does that even mean?
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"The Subways on Tazoo", by Colin Kapp.
(They weren't windmills - they were piezoelectric "harps".)
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The problem is that at the age of 16 someone somewhere should have told him that electricity goes through the wires and is lethal.
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No.