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  • Darwin Award: Blind counselors taking Blind students swimming at the Beach.

    07/21/2003 1:25:36 PM PDT · by sonserae · 65 replies · 250+ views
    Startribune.com ^ | July 21, 2003 | Tim Harlow and Lucy Y. Her
    The president of a Minnesota organization for the blind said Sunday that he believes a sighted person should have been present when three blind counselors took eight blind children on a swim outing at Lake Calhoun. Brianna Joy Nelson, 7, of Grant, Mich., drowned Friday evening. She and the other students were attending a camp sponsored by Blind Inc., a Minneapolis company that helps children learn life skills from adult role models who, like them, are blind. On Friday, the counselors -- two in their 20s and one in his 30s -- took the students swimming at the lake's north...