Meh. Much as I can sympathize, even theoretically mundane activities like wilderness hiking carry certain amounts of risk, and sometimes unfortunate things happen. If they wanted helicopter access, they'd have to clear out forest and basically remove the "wilderness" part of it all. Same with if they wanted more road access. A couple ATV trails may not hurt much, but... I just can't get upset with the services. It was a freak accident.

Maybe they should have stayed out of areas where things were over their heads, like the forest, cities, rooms with shelves...

I'd hit it like a boulder.

/window

Clearly, they need a new disclaimer.

FTA: Shu Qin was struck by a falling boulder that had split from a ledge. The 28-year-old was taken to Littleton Regional Hospital, about 20 miles away, where she was pronounced dead.

I know foreign names are hard to pronounce, but that's not even close.

/My name is spelt 'Luxury Yacht' but it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'.

Yeah, what a loser. Farking moran has his wife die in his arms and now's all like "yeah but what if there was a faster medical response" or "if only my cellphone had worked." Idiot. He should have just left her there and hit the bar in town to find a new one on his way back home. What's with these retards trying to come to terms with the needless death of people close to them? Mouthbreathing sheeple. Loser pussies. Me, I shrug off death like a stubbed toe. When that drunk driver ran over my sister, I was all like, "well, guess you shouldn't have been crossing the road, dumbass!" "Questioning" things and "coming to terms" with things and "trying to deal with tragedy"....that's all just a bunch of liberal pantywaist commie hippie bullshiat. Goddamn but I hate liberal pantywaist commie hippie bullshiat.

They should ban all boulders from falling - that thing just left her there to die!

So, a hot Asian chick who wouldn't make eye contact with me on the street is killed? Maybe there IS a God!!! ^_____^

ThatGuyGreg: They should ban all boulders from falling - that thing just left her there to die!

That horrible unfeeling inanimate object. I'm starting an internet petition...

What? Didn't they hear the boulder's mating call?

Perhaps it thought she was a female boulder.

I think Live Free or Die pretty much covers it.

/what would China do?

shirtsbyeric: I think Live Free or Die pretty much covers it.

/what would China do?

Blame the foul dirty white devil Americans, evidently. It seems to be en vogue.

Tree ways to die in the woods.

Only sensible suggestion in the whole article is a land-line at the trail head. That sounds pretty darned reasonable to me.

FTA:but Franconia police Patrol Officer Chris Fowler said such accidents are the inherent dangers of a wilderness

That pretty much sums it.

/"A wilderness" sounds weird, though.

Pocket Ninja, it's a lazy Sunday, so I'll grade that troll as a easy 8. But hit a bar in New Hampshire to find a new one? It would be filled with Masshole women, I'm not sure that would be a tradeup...

Everyone knows you can't use your tri-corder
in these areas

what would ever make you think there would be falling boulders here ...

Oops, time to import a new wife. He should go Japanese next time, they last much longer than the Chinese models do.

Something tells me that, after this thread, the flight to Hell will be way overbooked.

Occam's Chainsaw: That horrible unfeeling inanimate object. I'm starting an internet petition...

Carbon rod would never do anything like this.

Headline:

Man loses wife and sociopath Americans make fun of him.
Sad!

Shu Qin, a 28-year-old on vacation from Shanghai, was hiking on the Falling Waters Trail in Franconia when a boulder split from a ledge and came crashing 40 feet onto her.


Blatant false advertising! If it had been called the "Falling Rocks Trail" she might still be with us today. Or we would have had a great Fark irony argument...

orgo7: Headline:

Man loses wife and sociopath Americans make fun of him.
Sad!

Even though you don't list your country in your profile, I'm pretty sure I know which one it is, eh.

Well 9 ouf ot 10 doctors do agree that dying is the main cause of death.

/Rolling boulders too
//But that's 7 out of 10 doctors that agree on that one

Boulders don't kill people. People kill....Oh wait? Maybe sometimes they do.

Which Idiot Democrat in Congress will want to ban them now?

K/H D

See the thing is, this is the kind of thing that has to happen in order to make our legislators see how important it is to push through that bill in NH to fit the White Mountains with airbags.

If they can do it for cars... (new window)

CygnusDarius: Well 9 ouf ot 10 doctors do agree that dying is the main cause of death.

/Rolling boulders too
//But that's 7 out of 10 doctors that agree on that one

when 3 doctors were crushed by boulders, the other 7 agreed

I don't know, wondering whether they could have used a helicopter to airlift her out much quicker isn't really going too far. Hell, it took them three hours to get her there. I don't see that they are suing or anything, so asking a few questions doesn't hurt anything.

I like the photo. He can show it to people and say "and over to the left is where a giant rock squished the life out of my beloved".

King Something: I'd hit it like a boulder.

/window


Ditto

orgo7: Headline:

Man loses wife and sociopath Americans make fun of him.
Sad!

Welcome to Fark

You know, while we're on the subject of poor warnings, I'd like to point out that there are not enough warnings on the rivers I kayak about the boulders, rapids, submerged logs, disused weir dams, other boats, undercut rocks, etc.

Shouldn't there be a sign or something? And how about and underwater phone line so I can call for help when I capsize?

And what's up with all these "strainers" I read about in the rivers? Every whitewater site I go on says "careful, there's a strainer at about mile 'x' of the run," but I never see anything that looks like you could use it to drain pasta. How would a colander be dangerous to a kayaker anyway?

I say we sue nature!

Five years, nine days.

How many more mountains must die?

"Berare of farring locks" would have worked fine, don' you t'ink?

i've hiked the presidentials for years. even in the summer you can have treacherous conditions. i've seen 80 degree F weather in pinkham notch (elev. 2032 ft.) at the start of a hike and freezing ice fog on boot spur (5520ft elev) on the same day in summer.
it is truely a challenging wilderness environment and not for the inexperienced.
during the spring there is large amount of run off and erosion from ice melt, and rock falls are frequent.
i'm sorry to say, but i've met so many ill prepared hikers on the trails my first assumption would be, she shouldn't have been there this time of year.

squadron499: Boulders don't kill people. People kill....Oh wait? Maybe sometimes they do.

Which Idiot Democrat in Congress will want to ban them now?

K/H D

Can't you try harder? Please?

If you are traveling in an area with sketchy cell phone coverage, you should rent a satellite phone.

I am sorry that this person had to die, but sometimes that is how the boulders crumble.

What a load. I used to live 10 miles south of Little Haystack. We're talking a very rural area of a very rural state. I'm all for the sanctity of human life, but at some point we need to admit that it's not economically feasible to keep more rescue teams at the ready to provide medical services in case of freak accidents. New Hampshire has 48 mountains with elevations higher than 4000 feet, all of which are popular hiking areas. Several popular rock climbing and bouldering areas are in the state, as well as popular glacial caves (caves created when a glacier dropped a bunch of boulders on top of each other, as opposed to a hole in the side of a mountain.)

How many deaths occur in these areas each year? How many accidents that require the need of the rescue team? Certainly not enough to justify the expense of having a bunch more guys on the clock waiting for a boulder to fall and land on someone.

Why do the terms asshat and lawyer keep flashing through my mind?

How many more mountains must shoop da woop?

Was she there to deliver a royalty check?

I don't know, having a land line at the start of the trail doesn't seem unreasonable.

Also, Snarfangel: you are a very silly person and I'm not going to interview you any more.

sad story

Isn't there a Japanese game show called "Dodging Boulders"?

I thunk thar wuz.

Shu Qin, a 28-year-old on vacation from Shanghai, was hiking on the Falling Waters Trail in Franconia when a boulder split from a ledge and came crashing 40 feet onto her.



Sounds like they need to rename the trail

a rock the size of a tennis ball is gonna crack your skull nicely falling from 40 feet and you just can't protect everyone all the time. how about saying our god[s] protected everyone else in her group and needed her for the happy faraway place?

Jesus, Internet Tough Guys. A husband cradles his wife in his arms for two hours while she dies, and when he asks if maybe the medical response could have been faster, he's just being whiny? shiat happens, move on?

Have any of YOU tried to comfort someone you loved as they died slowly, begging you to save them? No? Then STFU and show a tiny bit of compassion. I know the general attitude here is cynicism and schadenfreude, but this thread takes it a bit farther than that. I kept waiting for someone to point out that this is a TRAGEDY, but the only one who did was Pocket Ninja and he was instantly labeled a troll.

This reminds me of the scene from "Beavis and Butthead do America", where Beavis and Butthead are walking across the desert, making comments like "The sun sucks" and "They should put a drinking fountain out here".

The "they" who should put a drinking fountain in the desert to save morons who wander out into it is the same "they" who should do something to prevent falling boulders in the mountains or who should blanket the wilderness with telephones and helicopter landing areas.