Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

It looks as though he was knocked to the side, I think it would've done much more damage than it did had it gone over him

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

he hit the front bottom and the bus looked like it ran over him

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

Whose front bottom did he hit? :angel:

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

The dictionary definitions where used because i wanted to:shocked:

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

and because the lad in question probably wouldn't understand the big words either....

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

He appeared to be hit by the side of the bus but it did look like it went over his shoulder.

He is lucky that he tripped on the barrier and only got caught by the corner or tyhe bus, had he actually managed to leap over he would surely have met the bus head on and probably not survived.

It really was a stupid thing to do. There was a barrier there for a reason and clearly a busy road.

I do feel for the driver of the bus though it must have been horrible for him.

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

The boy was being a stupid show off ****, lets be honest on this. He came unstuck and won`t do it again, hey, thats how we learn.
Did you ever cycle down a hill and then discover that your brakes are **** in the rain? I did.:D He was lucky this time, he survived,.:dunce:

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

I like the way his mates didnt bother running to see if he was ok, just a casual jog

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

To be fair most of them didn't see it from the same angle we do..or had their backs to the incident. :erm:

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

Yes he's an idiot, if natural Selection had been doing it's best he wouldn't survive.
Anyone who runs at a barrier on a busy road and trys to jump it is an idiot period.

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

Or a teenager, who tend to think they are immortal and nothing bad can happen to them (just like we probably did at their age).

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

Good point foreverwar...who here can say that on looking back to their teenage years they didn't do something that now makes them cringe with fright and/or embarrassment at their behaviour?
As I said earlier, the lad was stupid to do such a thing, but risk-taking does seem to be inherent in teenage boys coupled with a sense of invisibility.

Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

Perhaps another nomination for the Darwin awards?

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Re: Natural Selection At Its Best?
 

Again this will be the fault of someone else and not the person trying to steal. Also makes you laugh when the sister said,"He had been totally clean for the last 8 mths", obviously not.

This is one of the problems when the persons involved somehow are exonerated of blame, everyone is blameless.

How NOT to cross the road
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7598674.stm

He lived