XPost: or.politics   
   From: dhomuth1@comcast.net   
      
   On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:41:52 -0800, Ockham's Razor    
   wrote:   
      
   >In article <_hnfh.3087$Et5.927@trndny07>,   
   > Lobby Dosser  wrote:   
   >   
      
   >> Are there idiots out there as we speak?   
   >   
   >There are idiots everywhere.  They not uncommonly remove themselves from   
   >the gene pool.  The only problem in cases such as this, the can take   
   >others along with them.   
      
   Two instances my old fishing buddy called to greet me with this   
   morning from Minnyusoda.   
      
   It's early in the ice fishing season there.  A couple of folks with   
   snowmobiles wanted to get across the lake, but they had heard the ice   
   was still too dangerous.  So -- what do they do? Please take just a   
   moment and let this one sink in:   
      
   They put inflated inner tubes around themselves Before they tried to   
   cross.   
      
   Think through the Utter Stupidity of that for only a moment.   
      
   All three went through.  All three came out of their inner tubes the   
   moment they hit the water, but only one was in 16 ft.  The other two   
   were in less than five.  The two survived, the one didn't.   
      
   The Darwin Awards committee should hear of this.   
      
   The second one occurred last night, near Brainerd.  Someone with an   
   ATV decided to try running the thin ice.  Water was about 40 ft deep.   
      
   The two victims will be missed by their families, no doubt.  Society   
   will, however, be better off without them. My understanding, however,   
   is that one of them managed to breed successfully before demonstrating   
   an incapacity for survival.   
      
   Unfortunate, that.   
      
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