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Swan dive

2005 Reader Submission
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We were at a youth work camp in southeastern, PA. I was starting to blow up my air mattress to make sleeping on the hard cement basement floor of the church tolerable. The air mattress looked inflated but had no air in it.

At that point, one of the youth leaders came in and saw the mattress on the floor. He got a smile on his face, spread his arms, and seeing what he was about to do I shouted for him to stop.

Too, late. He executed a perfect swan dive on to the empty mattress and promptly bounced off the hard floor in pain. All watching heard the "clunk" as he hit.

He survived, amazingly with nothing broken except his pride.

Submitted on 01/25/2005

Submitted by: Mike Hokkanen
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Daniel said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Amusing, but lacking something.

Charles said:
Maybe Toss: Other
He was not injured, and didn't lose either life or reproductive ability... and in fact was in no real danger of doing either. Sorry, I don't think this qualifies, stupid as it was.

Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I think that this is good enough for a Personal Account. After all, he could have broken his neck or gotten a concussion.

Kelly said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Could be written better but the stupidity of someone that would do a swan dive into an air mattress, even if it was fully inflated, is mind boggling. The fact that it didn't have any air in it at all just makes it the perfect punishment for that stupidity.

Tracy said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Amusing - wish I'd been there :)

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