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02-26-2003, 04:18 PM
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Unicorn
 Join Date: October 4, 2001
Location: Kingdom of the West,..P.o. Cynagus
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Human Catapult
2002 Darwin Award Nominee Confirmed True by Darwin (27 November 2002, England) We have all seen films where a sieging army flattens the enemy's defenses by catapulting boulders through the air. Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be the boulder? Some people do, notably members of two Oxford student groups: the Human Catapult Club and the Oxford Stunt Factory. A 19-year-old club member climbed into a replica of a 50-foot medieval trebuchet and catapulted himself towards a net some distance away. But -- you guessed it -- the human boulder missed that all-important safety device, and fell to his death just short of the net. The organizer of the catapult event said, "We calculated his weight and the power the catapult. I don't know what went wrong." Unfortunate accident? Maybe, if not for the fact that inaccurate calculations had already sent one catapultee bouncing off the net to land headfirst on the ground. And the organizer's own girlfriend had suffered broken bones following her turn in the bucket. A person who entrusts his life to a contraption powered by inaccurate projectile mathematics -- a contraption that had already injured two people rather severely -- is clearly a candidate for a Darwin Award.
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02-26-2003, 06:33 PM
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40th Level Warrior
 Join Date: March 24, 2002
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uh...curiosity kills the people. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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02-26-2003, 06:38 PM
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Drizzt Do'Urden
 Join Date: May 8, 2002
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What's next ? I mean, are they also going to try what it feels like to be a patriot (missile that is)
 .[ 02-26-2003, 06:39 PM: Message edited by: the new JR Jansen ]
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