Darwin Award Contender:Woman climbs over railing, falls in Niagra Falls

[Imp]

Hey, everyone chill out. She needed her photos to post on Facebook. It was worth it to her!

 

[Kadarin]

I love going to the Falls, but they should make those fences higher.

Why, when you have to deliberately climb over the existing ones to even be in any danger in the first place?

If you are really that fucking stupid, you probably deserve to be weeded out of the gene pool anyway.

 

[0roo0roo]

body found etc

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393203/Female-tourist-swept-death-Niagara-Falls.html

thx, i hate video report links

 

[tyler811]

thx, i hate video report links

Wrong person wrong story as was pointed out up there ^

 

[Ns1]

Wrong person wrong story as was pointed out up there ^

yeah my bad on that one

 

[Zeze]

I wonder if an Olympic swimmer can survive the fall.

IIRC, when you fall the water plunges your body to the deepest end right

I rode Maid of the Myst just last year. The current and waves are bat shit crazy. I don't think the fall is what's killing you, but it's turbulent current afterwards and its waves that won't allow you to breathe.

What do you think?

 

[BoomerD]

I wonder if an Olympic swimmer can survive the fall.

IIRC, when you fall the water plunges your body to the deepest end right

I rode Maid of the Myst just last year. The current and waves are bat shit crazy. I don't think the fall is what's killing you, but it's turbulent current afterwards and its waves that won't allow you to breathe.

What do you think?

The rocks along the way...and in the water could have something to do with it as well...

 

[darkxshade]

The rocks along the way...and in the water could have something to do with it as well...

I'm not sure if I'm recalling this correctly but can't you die just standing under the water fall(not falling off it) just by the sheer weight of the water hitting you?

 

[BoomerD]

I'm not sure if I'm recalling this correctly but can't you die just standing under the water fall(not falling off it) just by the sheer weight of the water hitting you?

Probably. That's a LOT of falling water.

 

[Zeze]

The rocks along the way...and in the water could have something to do with it as well...

I did some googling. The Horseshoe fall at Niagara is about 180' drop. At that height, anything short of a perfect form (feet first, chin down, hands crossed at shoulders) will indeed kill you from the impact or severely injure you, preventing you from swimming.

This 40 yo woman probably fell badly even if she missed all the rocks.

 

[darkxshade]

Technically if you fell... hitting a rock would be a good thing.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

That guy at 1:10 with the bicycle helmet looks like that guy from Trailer Park Boys

Bubbles! or Tourette's Guy

 

[mmntech]

I wonder if an Olympic swimmer can survive the fall.

IIRC, when you fall the water plunges your body to the deepest end right

I rode Maid of the Myst just last year. The current and waves are bat shit crazy. I don't think the fall is what's killing you, but it's turbulent current afterwards and its waves that won't allow you to breathe.

What do you think?

At that hight, falling into the water would be akin to hitting concrete. Assuming you survive, the wild rapids will finish you off.

This is a classic case of human stupidity that nobody can fix. You can sign and fence the hell out of it, and it wouldn't matter. Smebodywould find a way to sneak in. I wouldn't be surprised if alcohol played a role in this case. Death by misadventure.

 

[Braznor]

I think someone survived falling into the Niagara

 

[shiner]

I think someone survived falling into the Niagara

We were there last fall and the guide on the Maid of the Mist told us that a child had fallen over some years ago and survived and that one of the Maid of the Mist boats picked them up.

I don't remember all the details, but that had to be one of those "Fate protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise" kinda things.

 

[ProfJohn]

We need myth busters to throw some high tech crash dummy over the edge to see how much damage the fall would do vs drowning due to the heavy current.

 

[Ricemarine]

I did some googling. The Horseshoe fall at Niagara is about 180' drop. At that height, anything short of a perfect form (feet first, chin down, hands crossed at shoulders) will indeed kill you from the impact or severely injure you, preventing you from swimming.

This 40 yo woman probably fell badly even if she missed all the rocks.

For the record for those that didn't bother watching the video, a Japanese foreign exchange student was the one that fell.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/japanese-student-swept-over-niagara-falls-60444.html

 

[rh71]

Why? Is not the concept of wet, slippery railings combined with a roaring river and a waterfall hundreds of feet high warning enough not to do something stupid?

Guess not.....

well people sometimes carry kids in their arms while visiting the falls, so yeah, it would not be a bad idea overall.

 

[mmntech]

They've IDed the girl. Cute but she definitely did look like a bit of a bimbo, I'm sorry to say.
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/16/choose-safety-over-a-pretty-picture

 

[Wyndru]

Idiot, fences are there for a reason, you don't need signs to tell you why a fence is there, especially when it is right next to waterfall with raging water currents.

And the chick in the interview is a drama queen, I feel bad for her husband having to listen to that, I'd be embarrassed if my wife was carrying on over stupid shit like this.

 

[jtvang125]

Maybe it's all the radiation that got to her head.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

There is a huge difference between jumping into a calm lake and turbulent waterfall. The surface tension under the waterfall would be significantly less, so it's probably not the fall that killed her, but the rocks, undercurrent, weight of the water, etc. Either way, not a good way to go.

 

[BoomerD]

There is a huge difference between jumping into a calm lake and turbulent waterfall. The surface tension under the waterfall would be significantly less, so it's probably not the fall that killed her, but the rocks, undercurrent, weight of the water, etc. Either way, not a good way to go.

It's hard to say what part of it kills people, but that 180 or more foot fall definitely isn't good for the body...Water gets to be just like concrete at those heights.

 

[Powermoloch]

RIP

 

[Papagayo]

Were they able to take the pictures? She was trying to pose for pictures, when she fell.
I bet they are priceless..