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Forgetting Something?

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

When a group of youths at the River Leven, Dunbartonshire, UK decided it would be great to jump off Balloch Bridge and into the river, one of their number wasn't going to be deterred by anything to join them in leaping in.

And I mean *anything*.

Jump to a few minutes later; Sean McSkimmings, 17, is in 'difficulty' - he went under and never resurfaced - and by 8:15 the emergency services have been summoned. Amongst others, a RAF helicopter and a rescue boat stationed nearby joined the hunt.

But nothing could be done to save him. Police divers recovered his body around midnight that night.

Police reported 'no suspicious circumsances' in his death, rendering it officially an accident. By all accounts, he would probably have survived if, prior to the jump, he had paid just the tiniest bit of consideration to the fact that he couldn't swim.

Submitted on 08/11/2007

Submitted by: Iain Macdonald
Reference: Sky News - August 11, 2007

Copyright © 2007 DarwinAwards.com

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Bruce said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I'm a little ambivalent about this since there's no indication as to why the death occurred. Drownings occur fairly regularly and there's nothing in this story to indicate any unique/humorous cause. Let's see what the other moderators have to say.


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
"Can you swim?" "I don't know, I've never tried. Let me jump off this bridge and see!". Love it. Thanks for sending it to us, Lain.


James said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
Iain! You're back! Anyway, I will go neutral on this only because drownings are so common and perhaps because extreme peer pressure may have played a part, but jumping off a bridge is certainly not the ideal place to find out if one sinks or swims. I will thus go DA here.


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