It’s not the fall that hurts…
... it’s the sudden stop. From Florida, of course:
Teenagers in Orlando, Fla., are leaping between 80-foot high public parking garages in a new trend called “garage jumping,” according to a Local 6 News investigation.
It’s good to see that the local news tradition of pointless “investigative reports” is continuing. I wonder if they have “team coverage?”
Tim Bargfrede told Local 6 News that he was following friends when he attempted to garage jump and did not make it to the other side. Bargfrede fell six stories and was knocked unconscious on impact.
The moral of this story? You’re a freaking idiot whose genes, let’s hope, do not get passed on to any more little idiots.
bq.. There are no safety fences in place on the parking garage.
D’Assaro is filing a lawsuit against the city of Orlando and the private garage owner for making little effort to correct a potential deadly risk.
“There was a very, very short length of fence that was completely ineffective in preventing this from happening,” D’Assaro said.
How silly of them to assume that people would not choose to jump off the building. Wait? The lawyer says that there was a a short length of fence. Which was it?
bq.. Since Bargfrede fell, the City of Orlando erected a partial fence but there’s still room for someone to take a dangerous dive.
The family says that’s not good enough and that both garages need to take responsibility before a garage jumper loses his life.
Yes, the city, and society must take responsibility for the stupidity of children and their idiot parents who raise kids who can’t figure out that jumping off an 80 foot garage is less than a bright idea. This meshes with my idea of helmet laws. There should be no law that requires someone to wear a helmet on a motorcycle. However, if you crash and aren’t wearing a helmet, society doesn’t owe you a EMS truck, either. People need to learn to take responsibility for their own actions. This can be extended to absurd cases, but this is a pretty obvious one where it applies. And hey, weren’t these teenager’s trespassing? I doubt they parked a car in the garage.
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“Wait, I thought you were a liberal?”
When was the last time anyone in the Bush administration, or the GOP leadership, took responsibility for their own actions?
The greatest thing I heard a politician (actually, it was everyone’s favorite wrestler-turned-polition, Jesse Ventura) say was “You can’t legislate against stupidity.”
Best platform ever.
Someone should tell that to the Virginia General Assembly, who manage to find new ways to make themselves look out of touch each session.
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“People need to learn to take responsibility for their own actions.”
Wait, I thought you were a liberal? ;) (ducks)