Potential Darwin Award? http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2008/08/19/florida.kite.boarder.wfor
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Does anyone here watch Impact: Stories of Survival on Discovery Health channel. This story could very well be on that show in a few years. What an idiot.
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That's what I was thinking and was going to post. LET GO!!! But then I started thinking there must be a way he is strapped in that wouldn't allow him to just let go.
not to make fun of this guy, but I can't help but think of the seinfeld episode when george had a mancrush on elaine's extreme sports guy, tony. elaine: did anything happen to his face
you are harnessed in. The kite it attached to the harness - the bar is just to control the kite. When the kite takes off like that...well, i don't think i've ever seen anything like that - that was freakishly rare. even a powerful gust shouldn't be able to do that. clearly he got pulled up into a water spout or something along those lines. I don't think a tropical storm would do that alone. i have been in 35 mph winds - i couldn't do that if i tried. there is a release. but when things are moving that fast - it can be tough to have the presence of mind to pull it unless you've really practiced that. I'd say he probably was not an experienced kite-surfer - because an experienced one would have pulled the release. but again, he could have been hurt by the first crash into the sand and not able to pull it.
Somehow, I don't think they did any kite surfing after that. That was gnarly, though. He can be the cool guy at parties now...re-telling this story over and over while everyone watches the video.
