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Posted by: jonwatts May 8 2003, 08:51 PM

Have you had to make any decisions like this lately? I haven't.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20030508/ts_nm/people_amputation_dc

Posted by: Bruce Allert May 8 2003, 08:59 PM

My God I think I would have died. You do what you gotta do... but I think I would've died........

Posted by: jimtab May 8 2003, 11:02 PM

First of all....don't climb alone. Second, a dull knife is no good to anyone. Third, should dummies be allowed to reproduce? He certainly made a lot of mistakes before he did what he did to his arm. It seem he was even lucky there, after all he didn't bleed to death.

Posted by: elmonte May 9 2003, 12:32 AM

I would of killed myself i could never drive a SPORTOMATIC!!!!!

Posted by: Curvie Roadlover May 9 2003, 07:05 AM

Plane trip gone bad:http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/05/09/plane.reut/index.html

Posted by: Rob Ways May 9 2003, 07:13 AM

Aweful.

Imagine having to find the bodies.

Remind me not to fly on super old Russian planes in Africa.

Posted by: Matt914MI May 9 2003, 07:15 AM

That plane story really doesn't sound like an accident. It sounds like someone's way to take care of a few military officials.

I think if I were that hiker, I would have figured something else out before cutting off my arm with a dull knife. Plus I would have been with someone else, and I'd have a sharp knife.

Posted by: Curvie Roadlover May 9 2003, 07:53 AM

With no roads they'll never find the bodies.

Posted by: Lawrence914-6 May 9 2003, 08:30 AM

Darwin works in mysterious ways... but sometimes even he is thwarted.

-Rusty

Posted by: jonwatts May 9 2003, 09:46 AM

Eewww, who thwarted?

Posted by: Pnambic May 9 2003, 11:34 AM

From what I gathered from an interview with the hiker on the news this morning, I believe he dulled the knife trying to dig away at the boulder to free his arm during the previous 5 days or so.

If I remember correctly, he dulled a number of knives that way before finally making THE decision.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place literally.

Posted by: Jeff Bonanno May 9 2003, 11:34 AM

Rusty,

technically speaking, Darwin did win. an evolutionary analysis of the second incident suggests that a populous prone to poor aircraft maint. is the beneficiary of negative selective pressure.

not sure what can be said of that other poor sod.

jbb

Posted by: URY914 May 9 2003, 11:56 AM

I just called my wife and had her cancel our family's vacation to the Congo. I hope we can get our deposit back.

And I told her to remind me to sharpen all our knifes this weekend.

I don't need you guys posting about me next time.

Paul

Posted by: Curvie Roadlover May 9 2003, 12:11 PM

I sure hope this doesn't have too negative an impact on Congo tourism, but, I'm afraid I'm cancelling my vacation there, too.

Posted by: URY914 May 9 2003, 12:51 PM

I don't know about you, but my wife was PISSED that we had to cancel.

Paul

Posted by: Curvie Roadlover May 9 2003, 06:00 PM

My wife took it pretty good 'cuz I told her we'll go to Somalia instead.

Posted by: URY914 May 9 2003, 06:22 PM

We're going to China now.
SARS don't scare me.

Posted by: need4speed May 9 2003, 06:28 PM

yeh. It'd be nice if this privatization kick went so far as to set all the aircraft maintenence for Air Force One to Alaska Air. hey, it'd be cheaper than what we taxpayers are currently paying for. (until the plane went down - oh well. . .)

Posted by: jdogg May 9 2003, 10:31 PM

URY and Curvie- LMAO, POTF(pissing on the floor)!!!!!!!!!!!