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Don't Hold Your Breath

2014 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

This may not qualify since innocent bystanders were involved in a wreck that this moron created.

MANNING, Ore. – A 19-year-old man caused a three-car crash when he fainted while holding his breath as he drove through a tunnel northwest of Portland, Oregon State Police said.

Daniel J. Calhon, of Snohomish, Washington, told investigators he fainted Sunday afternoon while holding his breath in the Highway 26 tunnel near the community of Manning, according to a news release. His car, a 1990 Toyota Camry, drifted across the centerline and crashed head-on with a Ford Explorer.

Both vehicles struck the tunnel walls before a pickup hit the Camry.

Calhon and his passenger, 19-year-old Bradley Meyring, of Edmonds, Washington, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, as did the two people in the Explorer: Thomas Hatch Jr., 67, and Candace Hatch, 61, from Astoria. All four were taken to hospitals.

The two people in the pickup were not hurt.

Calhon was cited for reckless driving, three counts of reckless endangerment and fourth-degree assault in Washington County Circuit Court. It was not clear if he had a lawyer.

(Editor -- What a shame Charles Darwin isn't alive and wasn't a member of the bar. The case would get the plea it deserves -- Natural Selection of the Perpetrator was unjustly avoided. This guy could do it again. I don't know how such a sentence would be carried out if it was determined Fate was robbed of its duty.)

State Police Lt. Gregg Hastings said Monday he's not sure why Calhon was holding his breath, but some people hold their breaths in tunnels as part of a game or superstition.

Editor (Yours Truly ) -- He can't really mention if he thought of putting this lad in for an honorable mention.

The tunnel, called the Dennis L. Edwards Tunnel, was completed in 1940 and carries the highway through the Northern Oregon Coast Range mountains. It's 772 feet long, meaning that a car traveling at the posted speed limit of 55 mph would get through it in about 10 seconds.

Submitted on 05/26/2014

Submitted by: Mike Durthaler
Reference: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/26/police-man-holding-breath-while-driving-through-oregon-tunnel-f

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Repeat
Thanks, Mike, but we've already received this story. We can't accept it because the people in the other car are considered hurt bystanders.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Repeat
What Bruce said.


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