Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:22 am
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https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/s ... t/3015737/A motorcyclist who was "riding recklessly" without a helmet in a San Jose parking lot Wednesday morning died after crashing into a wall, police said.
The fatal crash happened in the 5900 block of Silver Creek Valley Road, police said.
Police said the victim was a man, but his identity wasn't immediately released.
And, as the keys were left inside and the doors unlocked, he can look forward to having his insurance declared void.Gualtieri said the car owner had been notified of the crash.
The link has been truncated Boac but I am guessing you were referring to this idiot.Boac wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:36 amWhere do we find them? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brit ... 1664944613
Should try harder?
A British hiker is in an Italian hospital with extreme hypothermia after he tried to scale Mont Blanc without equipment or adequate clothing.
Feda Hussein, 26, an aeronautical engineering graduate from Portsmouth, was close to death when he was rescued by helicopter from the Italian flank of the mountain on Sunday.
Rescuers said his body temperature was 25 degrees, 10 degrees below the hypothermia threshold, when he was found in a hole in the snow on the Bionnassay glacier, 3,100m up.
fficials said he was dressed as though he was going for a stroll, wearing mountain boots but without crampons, ropes or an ice pick. He was said to be wearing a tracksuit that was unsuited to the conditions.
Hussein told rescuers he had slept in a tent on Friday night but he only had a tarpaulin and walking poles with him and spent Saturday night out in freezing temperatures.
“He was in an evident state of hypothermia, exhausted,” said Paolo Comune, head of Alpine Rescue for the Aosta Valley. “The mystery is how he got there, because there are holes and crevasses before you reach that zone. No one aware of the risks you face in that kind of territory would go up there at this time.”
Hussein told rescuers he had intended to climb Mont Blanc to celebrate his birthday and was planning to descend afterwards into France.
Italian media said that rescuers had assumed he was an illegal immigrant trying to make his way into France by evading border controls. They said he had no identity documents with him, only a credit card in his girlfriend’s name.
Hussein said that he intended to climb the mountain following the Italian route, including a stop at the Gonella Hut.