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Offline RichardM

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« on: August 23, 2006, 09:34:31 PM »
This link was posted over on the Total Yellowstone Loon Page:
Cliffhanger photos of idjit photographer at Grand Canyon
Be sure and check out the second and third photos of this set as well as this one.  The picture here and here is supposedly the same guy, taken by another photographer.  Apparently the guy is a Bud man.
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Offline chisos muse

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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2006, 09:45:33 PM »
Shoot......all that attention he was lookin to get and he did it clothed?
Pollo.....
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Re: Grand Canyon touron photographer
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2006, 09:50:27 PM »
Quote from: "RichardM"
photos of idjit photographer at Grand Canyon


It's all fun and games until you miss the handhold. Then, it's just OVER!
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« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2006, 09:17:15 AM »
There is the proof of one of my previous post on Fence at Grand Canyon, we don't need it.  THE HEARD WILL THIN ITSELF NATURALLY :shock:  :shock: Undertaker.

Did not see ice chest, wonder if brew was cold? :wink:
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Offline BigBendHiker

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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2006, 10:05:27 AM »
Wow...and incredible...

There is a book entitled "Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon".  It is an accounting of hikers and others who have met their fate in the canyon, by whatever way it happened, including getting too close to the edge and falling over...seeing those pics made me think of that book...

It is interesting reading, to say the least...


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Offline randell

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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2006, 10:15:12 AM »
In FLIP FLOPS, no less.
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Offline TexasGirl

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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2006, 10:19:57 AM »
I'm with Undertaker...Darwinism should have guaranteed that he FLIPped or FLOPped.  Apparently you can save some people from themselves.
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2006, 06:09:05 PM »
Incredible!  I'm all for natural selection, but it would be a shame if the Park Service reacted to his death by restricting access to that area or building a guard rail.
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2006, 10:20:35 PM »
There is already fence at some places in Grand Canyon.  :( Undertaker

This guy may be the reason but if we protect him, he will further spoil the gene pool by creating other individuals like himself.   :D
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Offline TheWildWestGuy

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« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2006, 05:59:13 AM »
If you click on RichardM's links in the original post you will see that he made it back OK but not by much.   Notice the empty beer cans in the plastic bag.  He apparently drank those while out on the rock before the jump back.  What a world class idiot, it's fools like him that ruin it for the rest of us, next thing you know they will have an ugly security fence around the spot and signs posted.... TWWG
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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2006, 08:17:52 AM »
Sad part is some young kid is going to see this and not make the jump, and the park service, which has already fenced portions of canyon, will fence the rest. :cry:  :cry: Underdaker

My sugestion would be leave the body, recover the gear (if you die we split up your gear), let him feed the critters, it's the natural way of things, dust to dust! 8)
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Offline Vince T

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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2006, 09:11:53 AM »
Are you kidding me-
At first I thought that was a tampered photo (the one where he's hanging on with one hand).
Undertaker is right...thinning happens naturally.  
Crazy.
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Offline cactus boy

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« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2006, 05:18:31 PM »
There are condors now at the Grand Canyon.  Maybe guys like this could provide them a little food.
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« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2007, 07:23:10 PM »
It took me a few minutes to find this old post, but while I was at Snopes, I found this debunking the photo that we took for real.  We've been fooled again.  The line is becoming increasingly blurred between what is real and what is not real.  http://tinyurl.com/wt878

Reminds me when I was reading a industry article back a couple of years (Foundry Magazine I believe) and some smart researcher type of person used this photo in talking about the need for infrastructure improvements to the grid and how that factories needed to have backup systems in place.  All I recall was that the author was with FORD and was LIVID with me when I informed him and the magazine that the article was in that the picture was BOGUS!  Demanded that I retract everything that I said about the picture being BOGUS and that the magazine should NOT print my "rebuttal" - threatened to have the big dog lawyers of FORD all over my arse - actually called me on the phone to threaten me.  Magazine did end up issuing a blurb that the photo was BOGUS, but that the research article was LEGIT.  Never heard from him again.

http://tinyurl.com/y9vfuu
Now, to be totally fair, I must admit I was "Fooled" by this black out pic, and the grand canyon pic too.  I made the mistake of showing this picture to an Eco class I was teaching at SFA and I thought at that time it was legit.  I had to go back a week or two later and "retract" my photo as being bogus.
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« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2007, 08:03:22 PM »
Quote
“Surviving a Blackout,” D. Rowe and W.J. Duca, p. 26.  Modern Casting.  September 2004."
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