A damn shame (Chuckling)

**Kungfoolss** · Posted On: 3/13/2003 8:42pm

Western Daily Press - 14 August 1999

Karate fan and self-employed motor electrician Ian Norton, 25, was killed by the punchbag he had set up in his new basement flat in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. When he rewired his gym room with new light fittings, electric cables made contact with the metal chains from which the bag hung.

On 7 August 1999, he returned from a night out and gave his cousin a tour of the flat. He put on the lights in the gym, completing a deadly cicuit. When he casually hit the bag, he was floored by 240 volts and died instantly.

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**Kungfoolss** · Posted On: 3/13/2003 9:12pm

Daily Mail - 17 November 1994

Karate brown belt and Thai boxing enthusiast Scott Kell, 23, lost his balance doing high-kicks and plunged to his death through an open window on the 10th floor of a tower block in salford, Manchester, on 6 July last year.

**pst** · Posted On: 3/13/2003 9:26pm

Darwinism.

pst

**Fatality Dragon** · Posted On: 3/13/2003 10:52pm

PST, now you mention it, here is the link: www.darwinawards.com

Just throw rock at it and it will go away.

"I would rather admit I am a lousy student than say I am the best, because once you think you are the best, there is no reason to continue learning."

**PizDoff** · Posted On: 3/14/2003 9:24am

lmao darwinism!!!

"Karate brown belt and Thai boxing enthusiast Scott Kell, 23, lost his balance doing high-kicks and plunged to his death through an open window on the 10th floor of a tower block in salford, Manchester, on 6 July last year."
drinking and high kicks don't mix!!

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The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed later.

**SamHarber** · Posted On: 3/14/2003 10:01am

I live about 8 miles away from where that happened. I laughed so much when I read that...

**JKDChick** · Posted On: 3/14/2003 11:14am

Really Sam? It sounds a little bit fishy to me -- how could a punching bag conduct? I mean, yeah, the chains would but what was he punching, a metal bag?

Any more details?

(board breaks with a kick)
"Is that it? I feel like I should bow, or have honor or something."
-- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More, With Feeling"

Edited by - JKDChick on March 14 2003 12:20:18

**sanchin** · Posted On: 3/14/2003 11:33am

Maybe it was his only escape from the rain up there ; )

**Dibble** · Posted On: 3/14/2003 12:54pm

I know a guy who fell two stories because he walked out the window *whilst chasing his girlfriend's cockatoo* that he inadvertently set loose. He survived, but was in a body cast for a while.

Truth is always stranger than fiction.