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Blithering Idiot Man Survives Historic Plunge Over Niagara
2003-10-21
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario - A man survived a plunge over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back, witnesses said, the first person known to have done it and lived. Witnesses described seeing the man float by Monday in the swift Niagara River, go headfirst over the churning 180-foot waterfall and then pull himself out of the water onto rocks below. ``He just looked calm. He just was gliding by so fast. I was in shock really that I saw a person go by,’’ Brenda McMullen told WIVB-TV in Buffalo. ``I saw him disappear over the edge of the falls,’’ McMullen’s husband, Terry McMullen, said. The Columbus, Ohio, tourists snapped photographs afterward, showing the man dressed in street clothes, apparently lying on the shoreline at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.
Of course he was in street clothes, it was too cold for a swim suit.
Only one other person known to have survived a plunge over the Canadian falls without a barrel or other contraption: a 7-year-old boy wearing a life preserver who had been thrown into the water in a 1960 boating accident. No one has ever survived a trip over the narrower and rockier American falls.
Yar! Our falls are tougher! Bwahahaha!
Video shown by the Buffalo television station showed officers walking from the scene with a shirtless man in handcuffs and a blanket covering his face. ``At this point, there does not appear to be any evidence of foul play,’’ the Niagara Parks Police said in written statement. Officers would not release the man’s name nor would they comment on why the man went over the Falls.
Pick one: a) suicidal b) daredevil c) stupid d) all of the above
About a dozen daredevils have taken the plunge in barrels or other protective chambers since 1901. About half have survived.
Darwinism at its finest.
Parks Police said emergency crews responded to a report of a man going over the Canadian falls around 12:45 p.m. Rescuers descended the gorge in a tourist elevator to an observation deck and reached him from there. He was taken to Greater Niagara General Hospital for medical treatment, said police. Hospital spokeswoman Marilyn Bellows said the man was in stable condition, according to the Canadian Press.
Stable? He went over the blinkin’ falls! How stable can he be?
Posted by:Steve White

#9  What makes you people think there is something wrong with the man's head?
Posted by: Imam Hotep Bejesus   2003-10-21 3:53:55 PM  

#8  Uh, Charles, how does that differ from choices a, b, and c????

E has money to pay for lawyers.
Posted by: Charles   2003-10-21 12:17:08 PM  

#7  A guy can want to be on Letterman too much. Let him know that is safer to team your gila monster to eat spaghetti through its nose.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-10-21 10:54:43 AM  

#6  You forgot the last one. E) Democratic Presidential Candidate.
Uh, Charles, how does that differ from choices a, b, and c????
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-10-21 10:54:21 AM  

#5  LOL!!! Good 'un Charles!
Posted by: .com   2003-10-21 10:37:10 AM  

#4  Pick one: a) suicidal b) daredevil c) stupid d) all of the above

You forgot the last one. E) Democratic Presidential Candidate.
Posted by: Charles   2003-10-21 10:07:54 AM  

#3  in handcuffs and a blanket covering his face.
That's a little harsh! Maybe he was an escaping criminal. "I seem to have shaken those fools."
Posted by: B   2003-10-21 8:26:16 AM  

#2  Perhaps he was a Canadian desperate for living in a free, non-socialist, country who is not ruled by Jean Loup Chretien. :-)

JFM, that may come sooner rather than later:

"Canada's two Right-of-centre parties are set to unite, ending a decade in which the ruling Liberals under Jean Chrétien faced a divided opposition and won three consecutive elections. The new party, known as the Conservative Party, will field one candidate instead of two in each constituency in an election expected next year. ... Avoiding a split vote is expected to give the Conservatives at least 30 extra seats in next year's election. ..."
Posted by: Bulldog   2003-10-21 6:40:32 AM  

#1  Perhaps he was a Canadian desperate for living in a free, non-socialist, country who is not ruled by Jean Loup Chretien. :-)
Posted by: JFM   2003-10-21 6:29:28 AM  

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