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Me and a few of my friends were visiting a local park. One of my friends who had always been a fan of climbing trees decided this would be a good chance to demonstrate who good he was at doing so. So he picked a rather tall tree and started to climb it. When he was about forty feet high he stopped climbed and began to collect chestnuts so that he could play conkers. He did this for a few minutes with nothing eventful having happened thus far. It only took him a few minutes to collect all the chestnuts near him so in a moment of genius he decided to climb out onto a branch and collect some more. Unfortanitly this branch was not as thick or as strong as he thought and it only took a few moments for it to break sending him plummeting forty feet. He landed on his face unconsious. We quickly phoned him an ambulance. When we got to the hospital with him we were told by the doctors that had he landed on his back he would probably have been killed! When he awake the next day he asked us if the chestnuts he had been trying to get had fell as he really wanted to play conkers. This cause much amusement amount is and the hospital staff.

Submitted on 05/10/2014

Submitted by: Callum
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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Lacks Excellence
Thanks, Callum, but we get lots of stories about people climbing trees, power pylons, buildings, etc. There's nothing here that really stands out to me. The other moderators might feel otherwise though.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Lacks Excellence
What Bruce said. Breaking branches is just too common as far as tree-climbing goes.


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