Luger dies in Olympics practice crash

[M.A.D.X.W]

You peopleos are idiots if you don't think it's OK to laugh at dead people.

 

[DarkED]

I guess we'll be laughing at your funeral.

Way to over-react and be super over-dramatic, but whatever. Fine with me.

You peopleos are idiots if you don't think it's OK to laugh at dead people.

Yeeeeeaaah... no.

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

People laugh at Hitler all the time. And Jesus too.
And Bill Hicks.

 

[DarkED]

People laugh at Hitler all the time. And Jesus too.
And Bill Hicks.

Yep. Now you're catching on.

 

[Darkdrium]

Way to over-react and be super over-dramatic, but whatever. Fine with me.

Sarcasm detection fail.

[SARCASM][SARCASM][SARCASM][SARCASM][/SARCASM][/SARCASM][/SARCASM][/SARCASM]

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

No Darkdrium you seriously have issues with death.

 

[Iron Archer]

Luger dies in Olympics practice crash

I didn't know they practiced crashing.

 

[Zur]

Lets pad the streets around tall buildings so the base jumpers don't hurt themselves.

Let's make buildings plane proof ;( .

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

Let's kill everyone before they have a chance to die.

 

[Kantham]

I didn't know they practiced crashing.

I just copy/pasted what they had on there over CNN.

 

[Plumb_Drumb]

Way to over-react and be super over-dramatic, but whatever. Fine with me.



Yeeeeeaaah... no.

just stfu

 

[Iron Archer]

I just copy/pasted what they had on there over CNN.

that makes it even more delicious

 

[Festering Anus]

do another barrelroll

 

[_Lynx]

Lets pad the streets around tall buildings so the base jumpers don't hurt themselves.

Follwing that suggestion:
- Let's remove tires around racing tracks.
- Let's remove safety belts and airbags from cars
- Let's get rid of parachutes for plane pilots.

It's a dangerous sport but that doesn't mean it a minor mistake should lead to a fatal accident. There are tens of sled tracks around the world, yet only this track got quite a few incidents resulting in a injury and a death in just a few days of trainings. Why the pillars were covered with a wall only after Kumaritashvili died? Last turn with an avg. speed of 140km/h and you have steel pillars right near the board after it and on the outside? I say it's a design flaw and I heard it's not the only one.

All that is true, but the track was just too fast. During practice runs, over half the field crashed at least once. This wasn't limited to just the newbie lugers either. Even the guy (think from Germany) who is considered the most technical luger had a crash.

That was an italian luger, the one who got the bronze medal in the end.

 

[B]

Putting up plastic windows, hell why not have them race in a fully enclosed tube so that way they will never fall off the track. It will only make it easier should someone crash along the way down and you have to climb an icy 152m drop to get to them because you can't drill through the 6in concrete walls. Makes no sense.

On this side of the pond we have a thing called doors. Maybe they could have used those in said concrete wall
But yeah, open sections are normal in bobbing/luging. In retrospect they could have put some absorbing foam around the beams just in case. (Although with the speed he hit the beam it probably wouldn't matter much.)

 

[Ignotium]

Actual Video of the guy crashing and dying

 

[Darkdrium]

That's some pretty good bootleg video right there

Why not go for the real thing with the actual sound on ctv.ca, like I said before? If death is a spectacle to you... :s