Chunk of NZ glacier crushes 2 Australian tourists (apparently ignored rope barriers)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/8/09 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A falling chunk of glacier crushed two brothers to death at a popular tourist spot, and one remained buried under ice blocks the size of large vehicles, police said Friday.

The two Australians apparently ignored rope barriers set up to prevent hikers from wandering into dangerous areas.

[NormsRevenge]

Those barriers are there for a reason. Dummies.

[Badeye]

No vegimite sandwiches for them....

[Tijeras_Slim]

[Red Badger]

Double Darwin Awards!............

[KSCITYBOY]

NYT - Headlines - Global Warming kills hiker.

[SkyDancer]

I like listening to streaming audio from various radio stations and one of my favorites is: 4BH.com.au

Anyway I've been listening all day and heard their latest news on this and the last names of the brothers sounded like Asian so maybe they didn't read English all that well .... sad though ....

[Experiment 6-2-6]

It’s global warming!

If it were colder, the blocks of ice wouldn’t have fallen!

[Travis T. OJustice]

Stupidity knows no rope barriers.

[txroadkill]

I blame Globull Warming

[Travis T. OJustice]

What language do you need to read to understand a rope barrier?

[caver]

Wow! They got glaciers in New Zealand? Who’d ah thunk it?

[caver]

That is some serious ice! Where is that?

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for the info.. it sounds like a lot of folks do the same thing at that spot per the article.. I guess we need Universal warning signs.

[RightOnline]

Crushed ice?

[SkyDancer]

Maybe they thought it said:

"OK to step beyond this tape to take pictures of glaciers that might crush you" ....

[SkyDancer]

I think they were going for the international Darwin award

[Old Professer]

Killer Global Warming Down Under

[Just another Joe]

Crushed ice?

No, Ice Crushed.

[txroadkill]

http://www.whackynation.com/2007/02/02/evidence-of-global-warming-in-versoix-switzerland/

 

[Doctor Raoul]

Didn’t the glacier realize that they were special and exempt from having to stay behind the barriers?

[Doctor Raoul]

We need Galcier Control and a one glacier a month limit!

[tips up]

G’day mates...

[Trajan88]

I hiked NZ’s South Island Fox Glacier... I followed all the rules put down by the guide... Trajan88 is a strong dude, but not rain-forest-based-giant-glacier strong ;-)

[rusty millet]

Hey - hold muh snowcone and watch this!

[dblshot]

Well they won’t have to put them on ice.

[jimtorr]

I believe that picture was taken some years ago in Switzerland. If memory serves, that’s Lake Geneva in the background. It was freezing rain, or freezing spray off the lake, or both.

[mwilli20]

If it were colder, the blocks of ice wouldn’t have fallen!

All the funnier when you think it's summer down there right now!

[Peter Horry]

“Those barriers are there for a reason. Dummies”

Barriers and rules only exist to spoil everyone’s fun, you should know that.