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Chain-reaction rescue killed three at Yosemite
L A Times ^ | 07/20/2011

Posted on 07/20/2011 12:40:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Edited on 07/20/2011 12:53:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Several people in a hiking group at Yosemite that included three who were swept away and presumed dead had climbed over a barricade and were in the water about 25 feet from the edge of a waterfall, standing, playing and taking photographs, witnesses told Yosemite rangers.


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KEYWORDS: vernalfalls; yosemite
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To: free me; AlmaKing
AlmaKing ought to be saying about now "Oh, THAT guardrail" ~ hey, that ain't no thang. I mean out there where the water goes down."

Then we can laugh and laugh and laugh.

41 posted on 07/20/2011 1:15:19 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: AlmaKing

Good for you!


42 posted on 07/20/2011 1:15:52 PM PDT by socal_parrot (I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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To: AlmaKing

Life is fatal. It just tends to be shorter for the stupid.


43 posted on 07/20/2011 1:16:45 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Maybe the state should have put up a fence or something...

Oh, wait...

44 posted on 07/20/2011 1:17:16 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: AlmaKing
Just to the right of the guardrail in that pic, there is no guardrail.

That guardrail extends quite a ways back. One would have to clearly be on the wrong side of it to approach withing 25 ft of the falls.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams

45 posted on 07/20/2011 1:24:02 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: AlmaKing

I do not wish to do so.
I’ll take your word for it.............;^)


46 posted on 07/20/2011 1:27:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
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To: truthguy

Reminds me of the entrance to the cave at Silver Springs, FL: it’s a cavern dive that leads to a cave, and there’s a sign that says, “This is a cave in which 18 divers have died. Do not enter without proper equipment”. When I was there, the 18 was marked out in nail polish and “19” was painted next to it.

Chilling - cured me of any desire to go in.

Colonel, USAFR


47 posted on 07/20/2011 1:30:09 PM PDT by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: thackney

3..2..1 before the first lawsuit is filed....wanna bet?


48 posted on 07/20/2011 1:30:48 PM PDT by ken5050 (Save the earth..it's the ONLY planet with CHOCOLATE!!!)
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To: thackney

Holy Crap !
That first step is a doosey.
I am sorry , you would have to be a complete idiot to climb over that fence.

God rest their soul.


49 posted on 07/20/2011 1:40:21 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Responsibility2nd

Rail or no rail, they were IN the water (25 ft from the edge), laughing, playing, taking photos, etc.

There is NO warning against that.


50 posted on 07/20/2011 1:44:06 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s that mentality some people have that they can do whatever they want because the rules don’t apply to them. They must be special in a way the rest of us aren’t because they say to themselves, “it doesn’t mean ME”! I’m overly sensitive to these kind of people I suppose because I always follow the rules (well, most of the time) and get laughed at because I’m a goody goody and I need to loosen up!


51 posted on 07/20/2011 1:49:04 PM PDT by happilymarriedmom
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To: woodbutcher1963
you would have to be a complete idiot to climb over that fence

Which gives the relevance to my Douglas Adams quote in the same post.

52 posted on 07/20/2011 1:49:45 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Looks kind of rocky at the bottom.


53 posted on 07/20/2011 1:51:15 PM PDT by Mashood
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To: RC one
"Heroes"?

What?

54 posted on 07/20/2011 1:52:31 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: socal_parrot

Is that the rail they hopped over?????

...it was only a matter of time for people that stupid


55 posted on 07/20/2011 1:55:00 PM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
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To: Responsibility2nd

Wonder if they were trying to emulate the Devil’s Pool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu5nlu4IBN8&feature=related


56 posted on 07/20/2011 1:58:03 PM PDT by Carlucci (Don't care what religion my president is, as long as he worships -- THE CONSTITUTION!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Maybe a sign listing how many people have been swept over and died?


57 posted on 07/20/2011 1:59:15 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: Sir Napsalot

From the book “Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite”

“Entering any significant stream which flows over a waterfall-regardless of any sense of security inherent in what might seem like a ‘safe’ distance between one’s entry point and the fall-is a proven killer... The power of moving water, even knee deep, has carried hundreds of people to their doom in the Sierra Nevada... The shorelines of these streams are of finely polished rock which is smooth and very slippery even when dry. When wet the rock becomes extremely slick. When wet and also with algae growing on it the water’s edge becomes unbelievably tricky, worse than a melting sheet of ice. Hence the warning signs and safety railings so far from the actual stream... It is probably safer to jump into the ocean with a great white shark than to tempt fate above a high waterfall in Yosemite.”


58 posted on 07/20/2011 2:08:54 PM PDT by poindexters brother
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To: AlmaKing

Do you think the guardrail should go all the way back to the parking lot?


59 posted on 07/20/2011 2:28:39 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Are the signs in Spanish? If not, I smell a big, fat lawsuit.


60 posted on 07/20/2011 2:33:05 PM PDT by liberalh8ter
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