Saturday, March 12, 2011

"The Gaping Maw of Charles Darwin"

Gad, I love to read Tam when she's on...
Despite the .gov wrapping as much of the west coast in Nerf padding as possible in preparation for Gaia's predicted aquatic love tap, the forces of Natural Selection managed a small victory.
Apparently, hearing that the tsunami was approaching and people should get away from low-lying coastal areas, some dude grabbed his camera, went to the the mouth of the Klamath river, and waded right out into the gaping maw of Charles Darwin.

Good work!
Though I did wonder if yesterday's tsunami warning in California would produce anything more dramatic than a tsunami warning, this time it wasn't a false alarm. But according to the linked news site there would have been no fatalities at all up and down the coast if not for the efforts of Mr. Extinction here...
The fatality was reported in northern California's Del Norte County, where a 25-year-old man was declared dead Friday afternoon after being swept out to sea off a beach while trying to photograph the tsunami's arrival, said Joey Young, a spokesman for the county's emergency operations center.
What can you even say?

Now class, I see it's time to recap the very first lesson from Self-Preservation 101, Please Repeat After Me:

Tsunamis don't like to have their picture taken, except from a very respectful altitude. The punishment for disrespect is SEVERE.

There will be a quiz.

5 comments:

suek said...

"There will be a quiz."

...if you're still here to take it...!!

Actually...if you're still here to take it, you passed!

Tam said...

What a way to make the history books...

Mayberry said...

Ah, like the Junior Darwin Achievement Award winning doofuses down here, who thought it would be a good idea to go stand on the JETTIES to observe a hurricane storm surge! Only AFTER having their sodden, barnacle shredded carcasses hauled in from the drink did they decide that maybe it wasn't such a good idea...

To quote Bill Engvall, "Heeere's your sign"...

Anonymous said...

Mayberry said ...
To quote Bill Engvall, "Heeere's your sign"...

Or Samuel Clemmons in his Mark Twain persona ...
"Common Sense is altogether too uncommon."

It seems that mother nature is Still weeding out the failures.

Stay Safe,

gooch

Anonymous said...

Old mines don't like people fooling around with them either. They also require pictures taken from a respectable distance. There was a guy here, 26 years old, crawling around a mine shaft and fell in- 192 feet. They couldn't recover his body.