no helmet = head asplode.

meh, I have so much I don't want to say about this....

/it is too bad, he was only 23. that's too young for anyone to die....

Cry me a farking river.

Meh.

Let this be a lesson to all Kurt Kobain look-a-likes...

lemme see .... we got Kurt Cobian look-a-like. bubbaprog- done.
We got a helmet clause. Dr.Knockboots- done

Anyone wanna jump on the darwin award thingy?

what's the hardest part of being a rollerblader?

telling your dad that you're gay.

/boilerplate froot-booter joke.

/probably wouldn't have happened had he gone to the XGames
//how about giving a photo without red eye?

got nuth...

I guess we can expect a video of this on the internet soon.

Bummer. he was teh good sk8er

Yeah - he could be sitting behind a computer all day on message boards making fun of people who live their dreams and take life to the limit.

Still should have worn a helmet - too bad

That's pretty ignoble. If I was a top skier, I'd want to die flying off the side of a mountain or something.

"His father John Taylor said that at the time of the crash, Taylor had not been wearing a helmet and that safety equipment had been a constant discussion between them."

What a tragedy, first the man is in Duran Duran, then his son dies in a skateboarding accident. Terrible.

Darwin at work.

-lj

Uh, I meant inline skating accident.

I guess he didn't listen to Norm Abrams about safety equipment.

helmets are for pussies.


oh wait, not wearing helmets makes you dead, so i guess that can't be right...

shouldn't this have the 'funny' tag?


yes, yes it should

C U L8r, boi.

Nothing funny about this.
You shiats celebrate tragedy like this?
God forbid you ever lose someone in an accident.
I'm sure at their funeral you'll say
"Well, Darwin wanted my niece dead, so sorry bro, but at least she left us with some laughs on her way out."

Can you really be called a top skater if you hit a lamppost and die?

Tony Hawk's next I hope.

so is the trick he crashed on now called a backside ollie lamppost dome smash?

Thread is over. Programmer wins.

I feel bad for his family, but the headline cracked me up.

You'd think that BBC would fix red eye on their own site.

Those are his real eyes. He had them surgically colored to be more XXXtr3m3

So... skate and die?


/got nuttin'

Taylor had not been wearing a helmet and that safety equipment had been a constant discussion between them.

In other words, he paid the ultimate price for being a dumbass.

Hey....Watch this...... DEAD

attention whore

I think the pic is actually Kurt Cobain.

2004-08-08 04:51:39 PM SockMonkeyHolocaust
At least he went out doing what he loved.

He loved fracturing his skull? Man, that dude was hard-farking-core.

Man, I was gonna mention the redeye bit but everyone and their sister got to it before I did.

I can't remember who said this: "I wouldn't want to die something doing I loved. I would want to die while doing something I hated."

/butchered that quote.

I submitted this with a deadlier headline.

Damn. For a second, I thought it was talking about Tony Hawk.

I can guarentee that it wasn't nearly painful enough.

/die 'x-treme' retards, die

It only takes like 3 seconds. WTF BBC?

He looks much better without the redeye.

It was his own fault, he wasn't wearing a helmet.

Parents need to have a series of educational videos available for use in convincing their kids why they should do certain things. Remember the videos in drivers' ed that showed all kinds of accidents and the resulting damage to the people in the vehicles from not wearing seatbelts and such? The same could be applied to sports like skating and general safety. Here's an example:

Dad: Alright son, now this video will show a few examples of what can happen if you don't take proper safety precautions before skating.

Son: Whatever dad, it's all a bunch of made-up shiat, anyway. Those are just actors.

Dad: I think not, son. Those were real people, and this is a real size 11 1/2 boot that will be secured in your ass if you don't pay attention. Now watch this segment, "Thinking Outside the Helmet: Open-cranial trauma and you"

Tape: In this segment, a young skater has decided to avoid a coolness faux-paux and chosen to not wear a helmet. It's a decision he'll regret for the rest of his life. Skater on tape: Dude, check this out, I bet I can hole a backflip off the upper railing! *sounds of skateboard coming down concrete ramp* Tape: Now watch closely, as the young skater misses his mark and plummets 20 feet to the ground below, landing on his head. *sounds of skateboard clanging against railing, gasps from spectators, and a sickening crunch followed by a sudden cracking open of the skater's skull on the ground* Tape: While a helmet would not have prevented him from attempting a foolish maneuver and falling two stories to the ground, his head would have suffered far less damage. Don't let peer pressure and impatience ruin your life!

Dad: See, that is why it's important to wear a helmet when you skate. I know you'll try some stupid stunts, but at least your head will be in one piece. Now go have some good, safe fun!

Son: Okay dad, sure, whatever you say.

Helping parents help their kids, that's the ticket.

2004-08-08 08:21:39 PM Mr. Programmer

-Can you really be called a top skater if you hit a lamppost and die?-

Oh man that's funny. Funny, funny, funny...

/It's funny because it's true.

So, let me get this absolutely straight, as I am NOT part of the EXTREME sports crowd, but was born in a redneck town:

1. If your friends offer to pay you money if you do some insanely stupid stunt which they believe is dangerous, you're an idiot redneck. We got that.

2. If a corporate sponsor offers to pay you money to do some insanely stupid stunt which is dangerous, you're a professional athelete.


3. If person in scenario 1 dies, he's won a Darwin award. No pics of you in the paper unless they got a good one of you with no shirt and an Old Milwaukee in your hand standing in front of your trailer house. And if you do have a shirt, it better say one of two things: Wal-Mart or Who Farted?.

4. If person in scenario 2 dies, it's a tragic loss to the _insane_stunt_here__ world. And they post your picture in the news and say how tragic it is. With your picture, because you're famous. And you get some sort of posthumous award from the __insane_stunt___ hall of fame.

you'd think skaters would see this and think, "wow, i'd better go buy a helmet so i dont die like this guy."

but I'd bet money that nearly all of them are just as stupid as smokers, and instead will come up with some bizarre logic like, "you gotta die sometime."


humans are interesting creatures.

Is his skateboard OK?

DUDE! Those things aren't indestructable ya know....

"So, this man walks into a bar..."

Bad_CRC you're absolutely correct.

Most skaters I know say things like "Dude, I have broken every bone BUT my skull!", "Only an idiot lands on his head!" and "Helmets obstruct my movements"

Helmets are good enough for Tony Hawk. And he's better than you. But when you have a million dollars, you don't want to spend your time laying in bed watching them try to put your skull fragments back in the right places so your head isn't all lumpy like Mr. Potato head.

Taylor, 23, from Barry in south Wales, fractured his skull and broke his legs in the accident on Tuesday.

You know, not counting the FRACTURED SKULL, it's really bad his legs are broken. That'll take him some time to recover from.