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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, August 18/08′ Emergency officials have been warning South Floridians to seek shelter during Tropical Storm Fay but a man in Fort Lauderdale seeking some thrills on the rough surf didn’t heed that warning and ended up in the hospital after being hurt in an astonishing kite boarding accident that was caught on camera.
I have just two words of advice: LET GO!!!!!
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let go – good call but easier said than done
the kiters I have seen are locked onto the kite with a hook on their harness. they generally have time to unhook if things really get hairy, but it’s not always a ‘quick release’ mechanism. this guy didn’t appear to have time to even make that decision. he was probably still seeing stars from being slammed on the beach. at that point he was merely an attachment to the kite. ouch!
I was 2 blocks away when this happened. This guy was severely injured. He was slammed in the building across the street from the beach.
#2. I lived in the Caribbean many years. Every time a hurricane or tropical strom came through, there were a group of macho idiots who had to go surfing that day. Some drowned, nobody cried.
OW! MY BALLS!
That is an Idiocracy reference for those of you living under rocks.
I got to watch the guy who invented this make his initial tests outside of where I worked. He tried to make it so that the kites would work in gentlest of winds. I don’t think kite surfing in a hurricane was considered in the design phase.
And alas, there’s the results.
Any over/under on the time it takes for that dummy or his family to sue the Kite manufacturer?
#5 Ha, probably sue the Hotel.
Amazingly he obviously wasn’t the only dumb-fuck on the beach giving this a try.
Maybe the Wacky news from Florida banner gets used too often for this one.
We need to do this stuff to feel alive.
ETA – I just googled Kite Surfing. Turns out the guy was BSing me. Please ignore my previous post, except for the suit part.
I think the Darwin winner is the shoplifter that hid in the trash compactor at TJ Maxx!
ROTFLMAO
That was pretty funny
#8
Yup, apparently the only way to feel alive is to become street pizza.
If that’s feeling alive, I prefer to feel dead. Better to feel dead than to actually BE dead. 😀
#8 – edwinrogers – We need to do this stuff to feel alive.
Life’s boring? Sign up for a tour in Iraq.
#8 – We need to do this stuff to feel alive.
#14 – Life’s boring? Sign up for a tour in Iraq.
Or better yet try heckling Cheney. :/
banzai!!!
heckle who?
Up Up and Away I Go, Here I go to save the Day!!! No the sand, the cars!!! the Cars!!! Shit the wall, splat, the end. You never try something like this in a Hurricane. You sit home and get drunk, period
One less fool.
Large parafoils like FlexiFoils are great for “kite jumping” in a 15-20 mph wind. I’ve seen one very large single harness parafoil pull a fire hydrant right out of the ground in Galveston TX and head out to sea with it. The city was not amused, but it sure cooled off the day.
I wouldn’t hire this person to stock the salt packets at McDonalds.