Olympics Tragedy

Talk about just about anything else that is non-gaming here, but keep it clean
Post Reply
User avatar
winds
128-bit
Posts: 653
Joined: Sat May 03, 2008 8:26 pm
Location: Canada

Olympics Tragedy

Post by winds »

Anyone seen this? A friend just showed it to me, i'm not quite sure the story behind it but wow, its kind of messed up. The guy is obviously dead.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/index.h ... d957013d41
Nintendoes what Nintendon't!

Tangerine Orange Key: 42915767S1
Top
Haoie
128-bit
Posts: 786
Joined: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:43 pm
Location: New Zealand

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by Haoie »

Good thing nobody cares about the Winter Olympics.
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.
Top
User avatar
corn619
Next-Gen
Posts: 2270
Joined: Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:48 pm
Location: Lincoln, Rhode Island

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by corn619 »

Well....when you shoot yourself down a halfpipe going at extreme speeds, shit happens.
Top
User avatar
winds
128-bit
Posts: 653
Joined: Sat May 03, 2008 8:26 pm
Location: Canada

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by winds »

A pic of him hitting the steel beam head first:
http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1 ... /thumb.jpg

Ouch.
Nintendoes what Nintendon't!

Tangerine Orange Key: 42915767S1
Top
User avatar
joehero
32-bit
Posts: 261
Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:00 pm

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by joehero »

I find the previous posts very disturbing. This is a real accident and death, not a video game. This could easily be one of our friends, parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc.
Image
Top
Breetai
Next-Gen
Posts: 5100
Joined: Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:13 am
Location: Make you humble in Canada

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by Breetai »

Wow, a few real assholes in this thread; especially Haoie. Are you guys even human?
Image
Sales thread. Make offers! PC Engine and Famicom: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 17#p197217.
My PC Engine/Turbografx-16 Guide: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 57#p654857
Top
User avatar
Inazuma
Next-Gen
Posts: 2940
Joined: Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:35 pm
Location: USA

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by Inazuma »

It sucks that this guy died but that's the risk you take when you do something dangerous like that. How come there aren't any straps holding him down? I don't feel that sorry for this guy, sorry to say.
Top
Droid party
Next-Gen
Posts: 1350
Joined: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:23 pm
Location: Stuck in my childhood.

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by Droid party »

Why do they not have some kind of netting on the outside of the corner to prevent something like that from occurring.
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
Top
User avatar
stickem
Next-Gen
Posts: 2321
Joined: Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:57 pm
Location: nashville,tn.

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by stickem »

nice place for some steel poles, right at a hairpin turn. maybe should have had a plexi-glass wall there.
Top
User avatar
joehero
32-bit
Posts: 261
Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:00 pm

Re: Olympics Tragedy

Post by joehero »

Inazuma wrote:It sucks that this guy died but that's the risk you take when you do something dangerous like that. How come there aren't any straps holding him down? I don't feel that sorry for this guy, sorry to say.
We all do things in our everyday life thats considered dangerous. We drive on the freeways, fly on airplanes, go skiing. Accidents happen. Just have a little compassion, it could easily be any one of us or someone close to us.
Image
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Off-Topic / Whatever”