Rope-a-dope

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Dead dope.

 

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/25/17461826-utah-man-dies-doing-sandstone-arch-swing-made-popular-on-web?lite

[gotbeer]

Can't wait till one of these arches that took thousands of years to form collapses.  But having one victim so far makes the Darwin Awards happy.

[arch stanton]

He miscalculated the rope length. This article should hang on the wall of every math classroom in every school in the country.

[Jason]

Had to have been pretty painful

[ELEVEN]

Ropes don't kill people

Stupid kills people

[2002_halos_II]

"If you don’t do it exactly right, you can die," 

[Pbonetheman]

He miscalculated the rope length. This article should hang on the wall of every math classroom in every school in the country.

 

 

Yeah, this seems like enough... Let's do this!

 

I'm waiting for this to show up in an "epic fail" youtube Compilation. There had to be some sort of video rolling. 

[Tank]

The video was outstanding. That'd be great fun to try, assuming you can do basic math.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

He miscalculated the rope length. This article should hang on the wall of every math classroom in every school in the country.

 

 

If he was going to die by the rope, he could have saved himself some time and just made a noose.

[Tank]

So how do they attach the rope to the arch?

[Lhalo]

Somebody left the gate oooooooooopen...

[Vegas Halo Fan]

When I finally depart this planet, I sincerely hope that there isn't a discussion thread on here about the idiotic manner in which it happened.

[Ray McKigney]

His last words to his friends were: "cut me some slack"

[mrwicked]

When I finally depart this planet, I sincerely hope that there isn't a discussion thread on here about the idiotic manner in which it happened.

 

life rule #118: leave a pretty corpse.

[HeavenlyHalos]

If he was going to die by the rope, he could have saved himself some time and just made a noose.

 

Get busy living, or get busy dying.