Stupid people...

[cjcj]

It should not surprise anyone when we have these so called "tragic hunting' accidents.

We had a guy die today here in town trying to "CAR SURF" he climbed on top of his Mercedes at 50 mph. and tried "surfing" on the roof... he fell off and killed himself....the car kept going until it crashed... lucky that no one else was hurt...Car Surfing..now that is a new one to me.

 

[wyomingtim]

OK, lemmie get this right....he was driving the vehicle and then climbed out? Man, some genes are better when they are out of our pool. I guess he had cruise control on and thought it was autopilot. Gotta feel bad for the family, but you know people are thinking "How could he have been so stupid as to try something like that?"

 

[Mojave]

I want to know, if he was alone in the car how do they know he was "car surfing". Was he also dumb enough to announce it to someone before he went to do it?

 

[Delw]

He was alone in the car
in a heavily populated street in scottsdale.


Delw

 

[MarvB]

They tried a gal here about two months ago (she was the driver) for a similar thing...hauling ass down the road and her boyfriend decided it would be fun to stand on the running boards of the SUV....ooooops |oo

...and another one leaves the gene pool.......

 

[cjcj]

Here is a nice "kicker" to the story...yes he was alone...yes he had set the cruise control..... Drum roll please.........This guy 50 yrs. old was the Comptroller for the City of Phx......They have signs all over... claiming that the city of phx. is the best run city in America.???? He,he

 

[Delw]

http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/1209Sun-Roof-Death-ON.html

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Phoenix official dies after jumping or falling from car going 60 mph

David Cieslak, Ginger Richardson and Kerry Fehr-Snyder
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 9, 2004 02:01 PM

A top Phoenix official died in Scottsdale on Wednesday after he fell or jumped from the roof his car as it sped down Camelback Road at 60 mph.

Witnesses told police that Kevin Keogh, 55, the city's finance director, climbed through sun roof onto the top of his moving Mercedes-Benz near 64th Street, stretched out his arms and then jumped or fell from the car.

The car continued driverless until it crashed into a Dodge Neon waiting for a stoplight at 68th Street around 3 p.m. No one else was hurt. advertisement




When police arrived at the accident scene, they did not see a driver in the Mercedes. They retraced the car's path and found Keogh's body 300 yards away.

Investigators don't yet know whether the death was intentional, but the cruise control was apparently set at 50 mph.

At a brief news conference Thursday morning, City Manager Frank Fairbanks praised Keogh's business acumen, calling him an "extraordinary professional," but also hinted that the bizarre death could have been related to a mental defect or medical condition.

Fairbanks said Keogh's wife, Karlene, had informed him that her husband had contracted a parasite in Mexico two years ago that had affected his brain and other parts of his body. The city was not aware of Keogh's illness, Fairbanks said.

The family said it believes the accident "is related to the impacts of this disease on his central nervous system."

In rare instances, people who ingest a parasite that lives in the soil and makes its way into fruits and vegetables in other parts of the world can develop frontal lobe disinhibition, which can make people do crazy things, said Dr. Christina Kwasnica, director of brain injuiry rehabiliation at Barrow Neuroligical Institute in Phoenix.

When it comes to making a decision, "our frontal lobes tell us what's socially appropriate," she said.

"The first idea that comes to mind, without the frontal lobe stopping it, we just act on it."

Some of patients with a non-parasitic form of the condition are teenagers who survive while "urban surfing" atop speeding cars with their friends inside.

Symptoms of parasitic frontal lobe disinhibition can show up within a few weeks or up to 10 years. Treatment varies but is limited because frontal lobe damage cannot be repaired.

Will Humble, bureau chief of epidemiology and disease control at the Arizona Department of Health Services, said that the disease is so rare most Americans don't need to worry about it..

"There’s some infinitesimal risk but the larger risk is for people who spend longer periods of time eating pork-type foods. The difference is the way pork is managed in Mexico," Humble said.

"It’s not entirely something that’s unheard of. But the folks who are at high risk of this, most of them come from Mexico and come across the border. It almost never happens to someone who goes to Nogales (Mexico) to buy a pinata, have a margarita and eat a taco from a street vendor.".

The best way to avoid the disease is to be cautious about what you eat in Mexico, especially taking care to wash fruits and vegetables, Kwasnica said.

The parasite can be found in the feces of pork and can make it into the food chain by pigs roaming through crops or through pork-infected food. In the United States, pigs are raised on farms and not allowed to roam fields where fruit and produce grow. Barrow's Kwasnica said medicine can be prescribed to control mood swings caused by the parasite disease.

"Sometimes we also do therapy sessions to develop compensation strategies," she said.

Fairbanks and other grieving city officials at the morning news conference did not take questions.

But in a statement, Mayor Phil Gordon said that Keogh "can't and won't be replaced."

Keogh has served as the city's finance director since 1986 and also served as the city's chief financial officer. He has been with the city since 1976.



The Associated Press contributed to this story.

 

[cjcj]

Thanks for the "full' story Delw...note to self [stay out of Mexico]