New Darwin Award candidate

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

another reason i LOVE evolution!

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."

"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.

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

Here's your sign.

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

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

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.

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.

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

75 feet is some excellent distance though...

bwahhaha

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.

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.

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

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 .
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.

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

They should ban merry-go-rounds.

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

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

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

hehehehehehe