Rope-a-Dope 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
A young man named Ryan, age 18 and just out of high school, decided to spend a day out on the water with a handful of friends. They took to the water with a boat, waterskis and a Sea-Doo, ready for a day of fun.
While his friends piloted the boat another was skiing far behind the boat. Ryan was travelling alongside the powerboat in the Sea-Doo, and dropped back to try a stunt he had proposed to his friends.
Between looking at the wake kicked up by the speedboat and the height of the rope being held by the waterskier, Ryan had formulated an idea for a stunt. He said he could jump his watercraft off the wake of the boat, clear the chest-high rope held by his skiing friend, and land safely on the other side.
He took his Sea-Doo out wide of the boat and gunned the engine coming into the wake. Unfortunately for Ryan, he didn't clear the rope - his jump was so poor that his neck caught the rope and severed several arteries in his neck. His friends were forced to circle back for him and haul him - nearly decapitated - into the boat.
He died moments later after profuse blood loss. Submitted on 07/31/2003
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Anonymous
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date: July, 29, 2003
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