New Darwin Awards Announced

ninty · **Re: New Darwin Awards Announced -** 06-27-2004, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Milla

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Originally Posted by Chappy

Urban Legends? Maybe, maybe not, but funny nonetheless

DARWIN FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

3.) A 22-year-old, Glade Drive, Reston, VA, man was found dead after he tried to use octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle.
Fairfax County police said Eric Barcia, a fast-food worker, taped a bunch of these straps together, wrapped one end around one foot, anchored the other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped and hit the pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators think Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. "The length of the cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between the trestle and the ground," Carmichael said. Police say the apparent cause of! death was "Major trauma."

ROFL i live near fairfax rock: never heard of this though.

measure twice, cut once.