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googused

googused

Portland, OR
OLD SKOOL

JAN 20, 2004 06:18 AM

16? I guess she hadn't had a physics class yet.


A stunt seen on a popular television show is being blamed for the death of a Marysville teen.

Police said a group of teens gathered at a park at Greeley Street and Rideout Way over the weekend to re-enact a stunt they had seen on the MTV program "Jackass."

The teens attached a rope to a merry-go-round and tied the other end to a pickup truck. When the truck went forward, the ride would spin.

Bobbi MacKinnon, 16, was killed when she was thrown 75 feet from the ride and landed in the street.

The show does warn viewers not to attempt any of the stunts, but MacKinnon's friends and family say it's not enough.

"The audience it was aimed at doesn't pay attention," MacKinnon's grandmother, Pat Fleck, said.

"I see the little thing on the TV show ...'Don't try this at home.' Yeah right ... I mean if they can do it, we can do it," friend Andrew Royster said.

Nationally, several teens have been killed or seriously injured in recent years after performing stunts they said they had seen on "Jackass."

obee_one

obee_one

Fowlerville, MI
December 2003

JAN 20, 2004 06:28 AM

another reason i LOVE evolution! ooo aaa smile surreal

bruiser_boy

bruiser_boy

Lewiston, ME
September 2003

JAN 20, 2004 06:41 AM

Why can't anyone just admit their kid is a fucking idot? Just once, I'd like to see some parent on tv say "I'm sad that it happened, but let's face it, Billy made Baby Huey look like Stephen Hawking."

UnnecessaryZ

UnnecessaryZ

Astoria, NY
July 2003

JAN 20, 2004 06:43 AM

googuse said:
Nationally, several teens have been killed or seriously injured in recent years after performing stunts they said they had seen on "Jackass."



"Several teens" is not nearly enough for Jackass to qualify as a national crisis for the safety of people who don't normally leap from warp speed merry-go-rounds. For now, it's still natural selection at it's finest.

Rocktopuss

Rocktopuss

Charlotte, NC
November 2003

JAN 20, 2004 06:47 AM

maybe Grandma should have turned the TV off. Ya think????

MisterJesus

MisterJesus

United Kingdom
November 2002

JAN 20, 2004 07:15 AM

Here's your sign.

kittencore

kittencore

United Kingdom
January 2004

JAN 20, 2004 07:59 AM

bruiser_boy said:
Why can't anyone just admit their kid is a fucking idot? Just once, I'd like to see some parent on tv say "I'm sad that it happened, but let's face it, Billy made Baby Huey look like Stephen Hawking."



Well said. People shouldnt expect TV shows to raise their kids.

zerogirl

zerogirl

I'm lost
December 2003

JAN 20, 2004 08:05 AM

really. those kids need someone to buy them a book.

boundforburn

boundforburn

Richmond, VA
September 2003

JAN 20, 2004 08:21 AM

Seventy- five feet from a playground carousel? Something sounds a little off there...but funny as hell if it really happened that way.

sqook

sqook

I'm lost
September 2002

JAN 20, 2004 08:28 AM

boundforburn said:
Seventy- five feet from a playground carousel? Something sounds a little off there...but funny as hell if it really happened that way.



I also thought this. How much rope did they have, anyways? You'd need to be going pretty damn fast for a good amount of accelerating time to get 75' out of a stunt like this.

Nic

Nic

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

JAN 20, 2004 08:30 AM

75 feet? That MUST be some sort of record!

waxangel

waxangel

Baltimore, MD
May 2003

JAN 20, 2004 09:05 AM

I can only hope things like this continue to happen. Can we make some more TV shows that will encourage morons to injure/maim/kill themselves? How about "Hey, Moron, Pull the Trigger!"? It could just be televised Russian Roulette.

FreakPirate

FreakPirate

Calgary, AB
November 2002

JAN 20, 2004 09:22 AM

Wow...some people raise really retarded children...

75 feet is some excellent distance though...

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

JAN 20, 2004 09:34 AM

MisterJesus said:
Here's your sign.



bwahhaha

null

null

I'm lost
November 2002

JAN 20, 2004 09:49 AM

Is it wrong that I started working out what the optimal radius of the carousel would need to be versus the radius of the axle to get the 75 feet? I also wonder if they counted bounces in that 75 feet.

ThisAintNoPicnic

ThisAintNoPicnic

Victoria, BC
November 2003

JAN 20, 2004 09:55 AM

i don't applaud it; it's fucking tragic. if that was one of your friends you wouldn't be talking about natural selection...

yeah, these guys were dumbasses... one of the kids there said they'd done it a couple of times before with no trouble and figured it was safe. oy! even so, we've all done stupid things (especially as teenagers) and only a few of us actually deserved to die because of it. (please don't ask about my high school band trip...)

shit, what's worse is how these things usually play out. the guys might have done it at first while the girls watched. then maybe they urged the girls to try, which they reluctantly did. then in an act of goofy guyness, the guys drove faster than they had previously, to "scare" the girls... and bang: a sixteen year old snuffed out. i'm not saying i know what happened, but a tragic scenario like this isn't hard to imagine.

the guy whose gun misfired during a hold-up, so he looked down the barrel and tried it again: that is a darwin candidate. this is just sad.

SupremePizzaMan

SupremePizzaMan

Seattle, WA
September 2003

JAN 20, 2004 11:46 AM

i bet that guy was pretty tustworthy too...seeing as he could be thrown 75 feet!

har har har

get it..trust you as far as i could throw you...see cause he..and...you dont get it frown

Azrael_Abyss

Azrael_Abyss

HOPEFUL

Jacksonville, FL

JAN 20, 2004 11:56 AM

SupremePizzaMan said:
i bet that guy was pretty tustworthy too...seeing as he could be thrown 75 feet!

har har har

get it..trust you as far as i could throw you...see cause he..and...you dont get it frown



MUAHAHAHAHA! I don't think I've laughed so hard about something so horrible. If it was my friend that had done this, yes I would be sad, but after a couple weeks I would have eventually said "what a dumb mother fucker". I mean come on, that was pretty damn dumb.
I think the warning on the Jackass show should be "please, run out and do these right now!" then maybe those kids wouldn't do them anymore. I mean how many of you touched hot stuff after you were told not to... I still do it tongue .
Parents need to pay more attention to their children and not let their TV's babysit them. If parents had more contact with their children and knew where they were, who they were with, and what they were doing these children wouldn't be trying to sling themselves or trying to hurdle cars.

Elisabeth

Elisabeth

Seattle, WA
December 2002

JAN 20, 2004 12:10 PM

This incident somehow reminds me of this article in The Onion.

Guildenstern

Guildenstern

Corolla, NC
January 2004

JAN 20, 2004 02:10 PM

They should ban merry-go-rounds.

legionnaire

legionnaire

United Kingdom
November 2003

JAN 20, 2004 02:14 PM

waxangel said:
I can only hope things like this continue to happen. Can we make some more TV shows that will encourage morons to injure/maim/kill themselves? How about "Hey, Moron, Pull the Trigger!"? It could just be televised Russian Roulette.



Consider your first drink at SGNY weekly world domination bought by me. biggrin

SupremePizzaMan

SupremePizzaMan

Seattle, WA
September 2003

JAN 20, 2004 02:48 PM

Elisabeth said:
This incident somehow reminds me of this article in The Onion.



thank you for that...i forgot how much the onion rules. until now

turin

turin

Denver, CO
October 2003

JAN 20, 2004 09:17 PM

If my stupid ever makes me die, I sure hope my family has the decency to keep their damn pie-holes shut.

dagfl1

dagfl1

Windermere, FL
August 2003

JAN 20, 2004 09:29 PM

Just a bit of chlorine in the Gene Pool and some people get all emotional... smile

Mylf

Mylf

Framingham, MA
April 2003

JAN 20, 2004 09:33 PM

MisterJesus said:
Here's your sign.



biggrin hehehehehehe biggrin