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Ironic Obit
2006-03-12
OLD FORT, N.C. (AP) - Daniel DeLaVergne, a whitewater kayaker who paddled one of North America's most dangerous rivers in less than 10 hours, died Wednesday after being hit by a train. He was 29...
There was just something terribly 'Zen' about this obit.
Posted by:Anonymoose

#5  really kind of a patheitc way to die. I keep having visions of Wile E. plastered to the front of a locomotive with the Road Runner as the engineer....
Posted by: USN Ret.   2006-03-12 23:17  

#4  Time tables AP, time tables.
Posted by: 6   2006-03-12 14:58  

#3  When you take shelter in a railway tunnel, Don't set up camp on the tracks.

Darwin award nominee. "I ain't scared of no trains."
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-03-12 11:57  

#2  From the article, he was sleeping in a rainroad tunnel, 200 ft in. When my buddy and I were 16 years old, we took a shortcut through the 2 mile long Tunnel 41 under Donner Summit. Nothing happened, but if a train came through, we may have been hit or asphixiated. I still shutter when I think about our foolishness back then.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Hooper Bay, AK   2006-03-12 04:06  

#1  used up his nine lives on the river.
Posted by: 2b   2006-03-12 00:33  

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