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Snow Rafting

2006 Reader Submission
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Why is snow rafting different than regular rafting? Dropping over waterfalls aside, only thing you can hit when you leave your boat is water...

As a group of enterprising tourists in Croatia learned, mixing snow or ice and rafting boats can be deadly. Using only a regular rubber boat, and not much protective gear, seven of them decided to go down the slope in what turned out to be quite spectacular and short ride that ended on a parking lot. Excessive speed forced the boat over the embankment at the end of the slope, ejecting all the passengers and showing once again that pavement and speed make a deadly combination. End result: one dead, one seriously injured.

Pictures and croatian commentary on :

http://www.jutarnji.hr/dogadjaji_dana/clanak/art-2006,2,6,rafting_preminuo,10107.jl

Submitted on 02/06/2006

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Jutarnji List, Cro, 5.2.2006

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
A picture's worth a thousand words, whatever the language! Anyway, all aboard were willing participants in what amounts to an ill thought out "X-Treme sport", and this is a VERY original (and stupid) way to do oneself in. Unfortunately, we don't know the name of the victim, so perhaps we CAN'T give out a DA, but I sure did like this one! Thanks!


Jorge said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
A great try for a DA


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