 Jumping Jack Cash 
2000 Darwin Award Nominee
Unconfirmed by Darwin
 (March 2000) The Grand Canyon in Arizona is cordoned off by a fence around the more treacherous overlooks, to prevent unsteady sightseers from tottering into the depths. Some of these overlooks have small towering plateaus a short distance from the fence. Tourists toss coins onto the plateaus, like dry wishing wells. Quite a few coins pile up on the surfaces, while others fall to the valley floor far below. One entrepreneur climbed over the fence with a bag, and leapt to one of the precarious, coin-covered perches. He filled the bag with booty, then tried to leap back to the fence with the coins. But the heavy bag arrested his jump, and several tourist were treated to a view of his plunge to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. He did not survive to harvest the piles of coins that had suffered his same fate.
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Submitted by: Bill Claxton
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Rogil
says, "I don't doubt this story is true. I clean this very place to reduce the enticement value of the coins. My rock climbing club, along with Arizona rescue groups, removes litter from the south
rim of the Grand canyon. We rappel down and pussik back up. We give the
(international) coins to the canyon's search
and rescue crew. The work attracts adrenaline junkies that prefer a good
view while they work."
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