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(Message started by: Locke64 on Feb 12^th, 2007, 6:13pm)

Title: A guy on a cliff
Post by Locke64 on Feb 12^th, 2007, 6:13pm

Parts of a man (bone fragments, fingernails, hair, etc.) were found on the side of a cliff inside a mass of crumpled and melted metal. After being found, he won an award. What happened?

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Feb 12^th, 2007, 7:31pm

This one's going to give people a chance to tell some whoppers.

[hide]He crashed his plane there after enemy forces remotely took control of it.[/hide]

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by denis on Feb 12^th, 2007, 8:33pm

He took with him the master print of the entire season of "Survivor" before release to network affiliates so it could not air.

Here is a spoiler image from the very last episode to be aired in 2012

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3838/69/1600/skeletons.jpg

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by BNC on Feb 12^th, 2007, 11:58pm

Based on a true story that happend here (Israel) a long time ago:

[hide]His plane broke. He knew that if he'll abort the plane, it would crash in a populated area, killing many. So, instead, he manually flew his plane into the cliffside, thereby saving all those lives at the price of his own. [/hide]

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Icarus on Feb 13^th, 2007, 5:29am

Actually, I believe this is the urban myth about [hide]the guy who attaches a jet engine to his car only to lose control when he tries it out and impact a cliff. The award would be the Darwin Award for killing himself in an incredibly stupid manner.[/hide]

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Locke64 on Feb 13^th, 2007, 11:51am

Icarus is right.

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Grimbal on Feb 13^th, 2007, 12:53pm

Starting the "pretending we don't have the solution" phase, I thought of another possibility.

The guy was atempting the first flight over the Channel (between France and England). He managed to reach England and its magnificent white cliffs.

Critics (before someone else does):
- At that time the airplanes were mostly made of wood and tissue.
- The story isn't historical.

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by raven on Feb 13^th, 2007, 2:48pm

Ahhh, what solution? ::)

I know this story! This was one Charles D. who was a lesser known motorcycle jumper (compared to Evel Knievel) but who insisted he would jump the Grand Canyon whether or not the Government allowed him to, unlike Knievel... well, it barely made the news and it took several years and many search crews to finally dig up his remains, but that is what they found when they finally did. Nevertheless, he beat Evel Knievel's record for the farthest non-rocket-assisted motorcycle jump and most broken bones in this one landmark jump...

8) Vroom-vroom!

NO really, there is now a landmark where he landed!

P.S. Grimbal, I like your (new?) bamboo icon...

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Grimbal on Feb 14^th, 2007, 6:58am

Bamboo? What bamboo? ::)

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by hiyathere on Feb 15^th, 2007, 3:30pm

on 02/13/07 at 05:29:16, Icarus wrote:

Is it only an urban myth, or is it true? if it is just a myth, bring in the Mythbusters!

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Noke Lieu on Feb 15^th, 2007, 5:54pm

they covered that already. (http://www.tv.com/mythbusters/jet-assisted-chevy/episode/285542/summary.html)

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by raven on Feb 20^th, 2007, 10:52am

on 02/14/07 at 06:58:03, Grimbal wrote:

Bamboo? What bamboo? ::)

http://www.satarah.com/clients/raven/bamboo.gif

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Grimbal on Feb 21^st, 2007, 4:54am

Oh... THAT bamboo. Where did you find that? ::)

OK, thanks. I like it too.

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by raven on Feb 21^st, 2007, 2:29pm

on 02/21/07 at 04:54:58, Grimbal wrote:

Where did you find that? ::)

I loaded http://florian.net/pic/65x65/grimbal.php?.gif into a browser location bar and refreshed the page until your script loaded this image, I then saved it to disk from my browser, uploaded it to one of my web sites via ftp, and linked to it for my above post...

;)

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Grimbal on Feb 22^nd, 2007, 5:28am

Actually, I would have done the same.

But it is not new. You probably just haven't seen (or noticed) it before.

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by cheesepuff on Feb 25^th, 2007, 10:05am

There are Darwin Awards for all kinds of stupid acts. I'm pretty sure there is one for a person who tried to rob a store with a grenade. It bounced off a cop's riot shield and blew the attacker up. :o

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by JiNbOtAk on Feb 25^th, 2007, 5:31pm

Darwin Awards : Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it,...thereby ensuring that the next generation is one idiot smarter.

List (http://darwinawards.com/darwin/)of previous Darwin Award Winners..

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by Icarus on Feb 25^th, 2007, 6:04pm

More particularly, there is this "confirmed bogus" Darwin Award (http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html).

Title: Re: A guy on a cliff
Post by cheesepuff on Feb 25^th, 2007, 8:35pm

on 02/25/07 at 17:31:00, JiNbOtAk wrote:

Darwin Awards : Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it,...thereby ensuring that the next generation is one idiot smarter.

In a sublimely idiotic fashion ;D