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Title: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: 41magsnub on November 20, 2015, 04:22:35 PM

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Teenager-survives-100ft-fall-bitten-adder-whilst/story-27462668-detail/story.html (http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Teenager-survives-100ft-fall-bitten-adder-whilst/story-27462668-detail/story.html)

Teenager falls off a 100' cliff, bangs off a bunch of outcroppings, lands breaking his pelvis, has to crawl to get above the incoming tide, then manages to get bit by an adder while crawling.

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: brimic on November 20, 2015, 06:04:17 PM

14-18 year olds tend to think of themselves as invincible, because they almost are.

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: dm1333 on November 20, 2015, 06:32:26 PM

He got off easy.  I ran a SAR case once where a guy was trying to get a picture of his family with the village of Mendocino in the background.  He backed up and fell off of a 100 foot high cliff.  Not only did he not survive the fall, the damage done to his body was pretty gruesome.

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on November 20, 2015, 06:37:28 PM

It is a sad state of current affairs that I felt the need to read that article all the way through just because I wanted to know why he fell and if there was a cell phone involved in the falling.

The nice thing is it seems that it was a legitimate accident, and not a selfie induced fall.

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: 230RN on November 21, 2015, 09:05:42 AM

"Never step backwards on a roof."

Or a cliff.

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: HeroHog on November 21, 2015, 09:11:01 AM

Quote from: 230RN on November 21, 2015, 09:05:42 AM

"Never step backwards on OFF a roof."

Or a cliff.

FIFY

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: 230RN on November 21, 2015, 04:04:03 PM

^
No.

"Never step backwards ON a roof."  That is, when you're on a roof.

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: 230RN on November 21, 2015, 04:05:41 PM

Double post

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: HeroHog on November 21, 2015, 06:12:23 PM

Quote from: 230RN on November 21, 2015, 04:04:03 PM

^
No.

"Never step backwards ON a roof."  That is, when you're on a roof.

I think ya misread my revision. It was: "Never step off a roof. Or Cliff."
I get your good advise to not walk backwards on a roof. My sarcastic advise was to simply not step off of one no matter which direction one is facing, see?

Title: Re: Think you had a bad day?
Post by: 230RN on November 21, 2015, 06:33:12 PM

Yeah, OK, it was just a bit of pointed succint advice I heard from a guy in Boulder who was a big roofing contractor.

I didn't miss your point. 

(ETA:I just checked his company name, and he's operating all over the front range nowadays.)

(AETA:  For you flatlanders, "front range" means pretty much everything in Colorado East of the Rockies.  More or less.  AKA the eastern half of the State.)