"Off-roading" Down A Cliff 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
There is a popular past-time in the Midwest called "Mudding" or "Off-roading," where you take a truck or SUV on to a field or hill and proceed to tear the ground apart...
It's seems there was a group seven guys from southeastern Missouri who decided to go "offroading" as part of a bachlor party for the groom.
So after the rehearsal dinner, the group got into a jeep and proceeded go "off-roading" at 2 AM in a thickly wooded area on a farm near Farmington, MO.
As fate would have it, the driver took the vehicle into what he thought was a clearing, which turned out to be a 30 foot cliff!
Two of the men (the groom's brother and a friend) were thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. While another man suffered a broken pelvis, another one lost a foot, the bridegroom sustained minor injuries, and one of his other brothers suffered serious injures (which caused him to be flown by heliocopter to a hospital in St. Louis, MO).
What definitely qualifies this as "Darwin Award" material was the statement by local coroner saying that the jeep the men were using didn't have any headlights!
Though also according to the paper, one of the men killed in the wedding party was supposed to be married in December, while his brother who had been injured was married several weeks ago...
After reading about this mess in my home state, I think Oliver Wendell Holmes was right when he said, "Three generations of idiots is enough!" Submitted on 07/14/2002
Submitted by:
Blake
Reference:
St. Louis Post, 7/14/02
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