Treadmill Trouble 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
My friends were all at a friends house for a party. Taking an idea from a TV show, they decided to use a treadmill to try and launch one of my friends, Alec Painter, across the room. They got the device up to full speed and he prepared to jump on the front and be propelled off the back. Sadly, he did not take into account that there was only a few inches space between the end of the treadmill and the wall. my friend jumped on and was flung at high speeds, but when he hit the wall, he fell back onto the treadmill. Trapped between the wall and the treadmill, the rubber belt acted just like a giant belt sander and begin to sand him! Fortunatly (for him, maybey not for the gene pool)he was not killed, but he did not get off that lightly. the treadmill took out good sized peices of skin from his arm and his back. You could see a streak of skin and blood going around the treadmill as they applied neosporin to his wounds. Even today, he has a silver dollar sized scar on his elbow, and an even bigger one on his back. If he was facing another direction, well lets say that the package may have been damaged. Which would have kept the "Not watching out for whats at the end of your treadmill" gene out of societies future.
PS: why this is darwinian
the failure to check at the end of the treadmill demonstrates a critical lack of foresight. if we were still monkeys, this individual might be hopping from tree to tree carlessly, and jump where there is no tree, plumiting of, oh lets say a massive cliff, to his death. Foresight is elementle to simple common sense. that is why alec deserves an honorable mention for *almost* ridding his genes from the gene pool. Submitted on 08/21/2002
Submitted by:
Chris Wade
Reference:
January, 2002
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