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(Daily Mail) Sad High school student crushed after learning he had to do a pull up   (dailymail.co.uk) divider line 102
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Dr J Zoidberg [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 08:23:16 AM
You magnificent bastard
 
ignatiusst [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 08:30:59 AM
This is a tragedy. +1 for making it a funny tragedy, subby.
 
calbert [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 09:44:05 AM
Shaka, when the walls fell.
 
Ponzholio [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 09:45:15 AM
We're treating it as a freak accident,' Cook said.

I know he was a freshman, but jeez.
 
rebelyell2006
2011-10-28 09:47:13 AM
calbert: Shaka, when the walls fell.

Darmok and Corbett at Williamston.
 
BurnShrike
2011-10-28 09:47:43 AM
'We're doing an investigation. ... Obviously the wall did come down. We're treating it as a freak accident,' Cook said.

A wall collapsing like this is not an "accident". It's a case of someone not doing their job properly. I'm tired of hearing about "accidents" that are actually cases of someone acting negligently

Rear-ending the car in front of you because you're texting on your phone is NOT an accident. A wall collapsing from the weight of a student is NOT an accident.
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2011-10-28 09:48:53 AM
Darwin never sleeps. He was a smiley boy. RIP smiley boy.

/Had a 14-year-old cousin who died in an accident -- taken too soon.
//Eight foot walls aren't suitable for doing pull-ups.
///Hope he had a good life.
 
Headso
2011-10-28 09:49:22 AM
So apparently whoever built the thing just stacked cinderblocks on top of eachother?
 
dothemath
2011-10-28 09:50:12 AM
rebelyell2006: calbert: Shaka, when the walls fell.

Darmok and Corbett at Williamston.

You two reproducing would be the real tragedy.
 
ChrisDe
2011-10-28 09:50:45 AM
I've seen reports that said this wasn't a full cinder block wall, but made of the thinner blocks and it was used as a dividing wall. The kind you might see between lockers and showers. Sounds like it wasn't made to handle the stress of a pull-up bar installed.
 
rebelyell2006
2011-10-28 09:52:13 AM
dothemath: rebelyell2006: calbert: Shaka, when the walls fell.

Darmok and Corbett at Williamston.

You two reproducing would be the real tragedy.

Since there are no women on the internet, that would probably be difficult. Plus, I don't think calbert is interested in me.
 
mynameisdouglas
2011-10-28 09:53:09 AM
Journalism today:
Hey look, somebody died. Now lets look at all of their online profiles and accounts to write a story about them! Maybe there will be some not-that interesting parallels we could draw in order to fill a word count (crosses fingers).
 
mynameisdouglas
2011-10-28 09:53:58 AM
I really expected this to be a fatty.
 
BurnShrike
2011-10-28 09:54:41 AM
Headso: So apparently whoever built the thing just stacked cinderblocks on top of eachother?

I guess that's what you get when you pick the lowest bidder to do the work.
 
ignatiusst [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 09:54:58 AM
mynameisdouglas: I really expected this to be a fatty.

Have you ever seen a fatty try to do a pull-up? No, you haven't. It doesn't happen.
 
SevenizGud
2011-10-28 09:55:08 AM
ChrisDe: I've seen reports that said this wasn't a full cinder block wall, but made of the thinner blocks and it was used as a dividing wall. The kind you might see between lockers and showers. Sounds like it wasn't made to handle the stress of a pull-up bar installed.

I didn't see mention of pull-up bar (I didn't read TWFA). Sounds like he grabbed the top of the wall. It doesn't surprise me much that it came down.
 
blondski
2011-10-28 09:55:41 AM
I thought this would be a silly tale of a kid that is sad that he can't do a pull up. I would have commiserated with him and swapped scrawny chicken arm stories.

This is so much sadder.
 
amindtat
2011-10-28 09:55:50 AM
ChrisDe: I've seen reports that said this wasn't a full cinder block wall, but made of the thinner blocks and it was used as a dividing wall. The kind you might see between lockers and showers. Sounds like it wasn't made to handle the stress of a pull-up bar installed.

There is no mention of a pull up bar. The article says: He grabbed the top of the wall and that's when it came down. Just a wild guess, but maybe that wall wasn't designed to be climbed on?
 
dothemath
2011-10-28 09:56:10 AM
rebelyell2006: dothemath: rebelyell2006: calbert: Shaka, when the walls fell.

Darmok and Corbett at Williamston.

You two reproducing would be the real tragedy.

Since there are no women on the internet, that would probably be difficult. Plus, I don't think calbert is interested in me.

Dont be so negative.
Im sure he is dreaming of your ropy jizz, salty like the rollicking sea, hanging from the pointy parts of his face as if hung by God.
 
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body
2011-10-28 09:57:00 AM
'I hate the locker room before a game....'.

I wonder what the story is behind that quote.
 
hasty ambush
2011-10-28 09:57:48 AM
Headso: So apparently whoever built the thing just stacked cinderblocks on top of eachother?

Or maybe the kid did not know his own strength

media.comicvine.com
 
AceThunder
2011-10-28 09:58:32 AM
More importantly, how was his teeth?
 
AqueousBoy
2011-10-28 09:58:37 AM
ignatiusst: mynameisdouglas: I really expected this to be a fatty.

Have you ever seen a fatty try to do a pull-up? No, you haven't. It doesn't happen.

Hey! At least I try!
 
ChrisDe
2011-10-28 09:59:00 AM
amindtat: ChrisDe: I've seen reports that said this wasn't a full cinder block wall, but made of the thinner blocks and it was used as a dividing wall. The kind you might see between lockers and showers. Sounds like it wasn't made to handle the stress of a pull-up bar installed.

There is no mention of a pull up bar. The article says: He grabbed the top of the wall and that's when it came down. Just a wild guess, but maybe that wall wasn't designed to be climbed on?

Yeah, I guess no bar, looks like he was using the top of the wall to grab.
 
CheekyMonkey
2011-10-28 09:59:07 AM
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: 'I hate the locker room before a game....'.

I wonder what the story is behind that quote.

UFIA.

\The end.
 
dragonchild
2011-10-28 09:59:10 AM
BurnShrike: A wall collapsing like this is not an "accident". It's a case of someone not doing their job properly. I'm tired of hearing about "accidents" that are actually cases of someone acting negligently

This.

CSB, not as targic: At my last apartment I made a very convincing case that the central air intake vent needed to be properly repaired, because it had been torn off. Fark: It was torn off by a four-month-old kitten. The vent was reinforced in short order.
 
CheekyMonkey
2011-10-28 09:59:47 AM
rebelyell2006: calbert: Shaka, when the walls fell.

Darmok and Corbett at Williamston.

Between the two of you, I think we're done here.
 
gambitsgirl [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 09:59:58 AM
had jumped and grabbed for the top of an eight foot wall to do a pull-up, police said Thursday.... 'He grabbed the top of the wall and that's when it came down'...



anyone else think "woah - wtf - awesome jump" first off?
 
Headso
2011-10-28 10:00:59 AM
SevenizGud: It doesn't surprise me much that it came down.

really? I have built sheds, barns, additions, decks, pergolas, You could do a pull up on anything I have put up. And this is in a school that should be built for commercial use. Ya'll saying this is not surprising must have never built anything in your lives.
 
StrangeQ
2011-10-28 10:01:58 AM
amindtat: ChrisDe: I've seen reports that said this wasn't a full cinder block wall, but made of the thinner blocks and it was used as a dividing wall. The kind you might see between lockers and showers. Sounds like it wasn't made to handle the stress of a pull-up bar installed.

There is no mention of a pull up bar. The article says: He grabbed the top of the wall and that's when it came down. Just a wild guess, but maybe that wall wasn't designed to be climbed on?

Or maybe it was just a bunch of stacked cinder blocks that were just waiting to fall down on top of somebody because some administrator couldn't spend the extra $100 to buy some farking mortar?
 
Headso
2011-10-28 10:02:24 AM
hasty ambush: Or maybe the kid did not know his own strength

maybe he had the strength of superman without the durability.
 
CheekyMonkey
2011-10-28 10:02:55 AM
Headso: SevenizGud: It doesn't surprise me much that it came down.

really? I have built sheds, barns, additions, decks, pergolas, You could do a pull up on anything I have put up. And this is in a school that should be built for commercial use. Ya'll saying this is not surprising must have never built anything in your lives.

Yeah, but you probably use things like mortar, and nails. This wall sounds like it was cinder blocks and li-berry paste.
 
humanshrapnel
2011-10-28 10:03:54 AM
ignatiusst: mynameisdouglas: I really expected this to be a fatty.

Have you ever seen a fatty try to do a pull-up? No, you haven't. It doesn't happen.

www.ejumpcut.org
 
SweetSaws
2011-10-28 10:05:11 AM
School's gonna get sss-who-WHO-ued (say this outloud)!
 
headstone [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 10:05:31 AM
gambitsgirl: had jumped and grabbed for the top of an eight foot wall to do a pull-up, police said Thursday.... 'He grabbed the top of the wall and that's when it came down'...



anyone else think "woah - wtf - awesome jump" first off?


Didn't really think about it till you brought it up. Actually, yeah, it was a pretty good jump.
 
Jake Havechek
2011-10-28 10:06:44 AM
Not a lot of detail in that article.
 
Lifeless
2011-10-28 10:07:47 AM
headstone: gambitsgirl: had jumped and grabbed for the top of an eight foot wall to do a pull-up, police said Thursday.... 'He grabbed the top of the wall and that's when it came down'...



anyone else think "woah - wtf - awesome jump" first off?


Didn't really think about it till you brought it up. Actually, yeah, it was a pretty good jump.

Grabbing the top of an eight-foot wall is an impressive jump if you're 4'8", maybe.
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2011-10-28 10:08:00 AM
Headso: SevenizGud: It doesn't surprise me much that it came down.

really? I have built sheds, barns, additions, decks, pergolas, You could do a pull up on anything I have put up. And this is in a school that should be built for commercial use. Ya'll saying this is not surprising must have never built anything in your lives.

It seems pretty plausible that a dividing wall made of those thinner cinder blocks wold come down if a big 14-year-old jumped up and grabbed the top and hung there, then applied more leverage. Sounds like a poorly done wall, though. No internal reinforcement, maybe.

/Firm believer in over-engineering and over-building stuff, just to be safe.
//Money will be paid out for this death.
 
headstone [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 10:08:36 AM
dothemath: rebelyell2006: dothemath: rebelyell2006: calbert: Shaka, when the walls fell.

Darmok and Corbett at Williamston.

You two reproducing would be the real tragedy.

Since there are no women on the internet, that would probably be difficult. Plus, I don't think calbert is interested in me.

Dont be so negative.
Im sure he is dreaming of your ropy jizz, salty like the rollicking sea, hanging from the pointy parts of his face as if hung by God.


That is such a weird juxtaposition of '70's porn and Hemmingway...


/too early in the morning
 
Aphoticamy [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 10:09:02 AM
Headso: SevenizGud: It doesn't surprise me much that it came down.

really? I have built sheds, barns, additions, decks, pergolas, You could do a pull up on anything I have put up. And this is in a school that should be built for commercial use. Ya'll saying this is not surprising must have never built anything in your lives.

Agreed, this is crap, this wall. I'm pretty sure someone had to know that it was in bad shape. A fourteen year old kid isn't going to look at it and say "Hmmm, not sure if structurally sound enough to jump on" and think before he leaps.
 
Count Dyscalculia
2011-10-28 10:09:04 AM
rebelyell2006: calbert: Shaka, when the walls fell.

Darmok and Corbett at Williamston.

Corbett, his eyes closed.
 
cgraves67
2011-10-28 10:09:45 AM
Another life cut short, but that's what it is to be a mere mortar.
 
Abe Vigoda's Ghost
2011-10-28 10:10:49 AM
Gabriel Corbett, 14, died when a wall in his high school locker room as he was doing pull ups, and police are investigating the reason why

Caption for the picture makes my head hurt.
 
KimNorth
2011-10-28 10:11:52 AM
BurnShrike: Headso: So apparently whoever built the thing just stacked cinderblocks on top of eachother?

I guess that's what you get when you pick the lowest bidder to do the work.

Or your buddy that takes your family on a free all paid vacation as a thank you.
 
hbk72777
2011-10-28 10:11:55 AM
Mellencamp said it best
Link (new window)
 
Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich
2011-10-28 10:14:56 AM
SweetSaws: School's gonna get sss-who-WHO-ued (say this outloud)!

This is exactly the reason we should have lawsuits. The cost of shoddy workmanship should be so great that it makes much more financial sense to do a halfway decent job in the first place. That way, we don't have kids dying because some low-bid jackoff decided he wanted a long lunch.
 
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body
2011-10-28 10:19:42 AM
Police are on the lookout for this suspect:

www.chicagonow.com
 
dothemath
2011-10-28 10:20:10 AM
headstone: Dont be so negative.
Im sure he is dreaming of your ropy jizz, salty like the rollicking sea, hanging from the pointy parts of his face as if hung by God.


That is such a weird juxtaposition of '70's porn and Hemmingway...

In the sea of grass,
On an African plain,
He punished that ass,
Until tears fell like rain.
 
Headso
2011-10-28 10:20:18 AM
HotIgneous Intruder: Headso: SevenizGud: It doesn't surprise me much that it came down.

really? I have built sheds, barns, additions, decks, pergolas, You could do a pull up on anything I have put up. And this is in a school that should be built for commercial use. Ya'll saying this is not surprising must have never built anything in your lives.

It seems pretty plausible that a dividing wall made of those thinner cinder blocks wold come down if a big 14-year-old jumped up and grabbed the top and hung there, then applied more leverage. Sounds like a poorly done wall, though. No internal reinforcement, maybe.

it's only plausible if it was made extremely poorly, I am not super familiar with cinderblock work but I believe you would normally put rebar throughout the wall and pour cement down through the holes in portions of the cinderblocks to adhere it to the rebar.
 
Ponzholio [TotalFark]
2011-10-28 10:21:10 AM
Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: SweetSaws: School's gonna get sss-who-WHO-ued (say this outloud)!

This is exactly the reason we should have lawsuits. The cost of shoddy workmanship should be so great that it makes much more financial sense to do a halfway decent job in the first place. That way, we don't have kids dying because some low-bid jackoff decided he wanted a long lunch.

If this was a new school, I'd tend to agree it was probably shoddy workmanship, but the school was over 20-years old. Probably just had mortar crack along the bricks and the horizontal load of someone jumping on the side of it separated the bricks causing them to come down. I'm sure the school has insurance that will cover this, but I don't think it was due to negligence or incompetent construction.
 
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