Stupid and Deadly

[icyfroth]

"Spain's Pamplona bull-running fiesta  wrapped up on Sunday with another five  seriously injured, including an  Australian woman who was gored, after nine days  that landed a total of  50 daredevils in hospital."

"A man has died after downing six litres of beer in a drinking competition at a beer festival in Spain."

"A MAN has died after collapsing during a pie-eating contest at a pub in  Queensland's northeast."  

Why do people do it?

[kilroy_is_here]

Which of these has the highest injury rate?

Race car driver
Race bike rider
Hang glidér
Parachuting
Scuba diving
Caving
4wding
Abseiling
Rock climbing
Horse riding
Football
Bungee jumping
Shark net fishing
Skiing
Boating

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
 I say go do it, 

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 I agree. In  one fell swoop they've not only removed themselves from the gene pool, but increased the average IQ of the population in the process. That's got to count fcor something.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

Football?

[kilroy_is_here]

Correct football has the highest injury rate of all those on the list .
The list btw is of all the activities I have done at some stage in my life.
I can honestly say I am not afraid of dieing coz at least I have lived not just survived

[cherry*135]

I think all those activities listed are well worth doing compared to pie stuffing and drinking huge quantities of beer in a short space of time.

[cherry*135]

I abseiled down a cliff ONCE (nearly died of fright). I have watched bungee jumpers jumping off the bridge near Queenstown NZ... too scared to try that.

I always wanted to do a tandem parachute jump when I was younger and go in a hot air balloon (too expensive). Now I don't want to, but I am still alive at least.

[*pepe]

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@am*3 wrote:

I think all those activities listed are well worth doing compared to pie stuffing and drinking huge quantities of beer in a short space of time.

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not to mention way better than further tormenting petrified animals just to be able to say you ran down a road with a bull

[kilroy_is_here]

Each to their own, some get what they need from knitting others from winning a pie eating comp,others from plummeting from a perfectly good plane or jumping off a perfectly good cliff or god for bid that waste of a perfectly good walk called golf

[icyfroth]

I can understand the thrill of running with the bulls. Like that grey-headed old professor said on 60 mins last night "if you can't  die from it, what 's the point?" (or words to that effect)

But there's no way I'll ever understand where the glory is making yourself sick and dying in pie-eating or hot-dog or chili-eating or alcohol skulling contests.

[kilroy_is_here]

Why do you need to understand it icy , why not just embrace it as a bit of totally irrelevant cultural diversity.

Personally I have never got the need to hit a little white ball and chase after it to just hit it again , but hay people do and people make millions out of it , what's more many a person has dropped dead on the golf course including my neighbour so there you go