Apparently attempting to achieved new highs in stupidity, a young man jumped out of the upper deck of Yankee stadium during the game. He had enough sense to do it behind home plate where there is a net. He landed in the net and looked very dazed.
He faces a year in jail :wally
Here’s the stranger thing, this is the second time someone has made this stupid jump. Apparently people think the Darwin Awards carry a prize.
Well, if I were - through some terrible misfortune of fate - a Yankees fan, I’d probably try to kill myself, too.
What? Someone had to say it!
I thought about it, around game 7 last year. 
At US Cellular Field (White Sox), they’ve converted from the traditional slanted screen to a vertical screen, so that you can catch pop-ups behind the plate while being protected from line drives.
I’m kind of torn as to whether this is a good idea. On the one hand, idiots will be less likely to jump if there’s no net. On the other hand, if some complete fucking idiot jumps anyway, he’s going to kill innocent bystanders in the lower deck.
Unfortunately, Darwin survivors still retain the ability to breed.
Perhaps forced sterilization could be the prize?
E.
Sharpshooting harpoon gunners stationed at each foul pole will fire projectiles sporting retractable barbs, tethered to high-tension bungie cords. Any jumpers will be impaled, snagged, and pulled back onto the field before landing on any spectators. The players on the field, being paragons of athleticism, will surely be able to dodge the body. I do say body; for while it is regrettable the jumper will not survive this method of capture, their outlook, upon leaping from the upper deck, is poor in any event, and the overall number of likely fatalities can be greatly reduced by making certain sacrifices from the outset.
I was at the previous game at Yankee Stadium when this happened, which unsurprisingly was against the Red Sox.* I’m pretty sure that guy just fell, rather than jumped. He lay stunned in the net for a couple minutes as the whole Stadium slowly became quiet as people realized what had happened. He finially managed to scramble back into the stands.
*(In my experience, something weird has always happened when I’ve seen the Red Sox play at the Stadium. I once saw Roger Clemens, when he was playing for the Sox, go into the stands after a fan who had stolen Jim Rice’s cap. One of his team mates at the time said, “Y’know, they call him Rocket Man, not Rocket Scientist.”)
I say vaporize the barstards in mid air with 1920’s style death rays. 
No, no He jumped specifically because the net was there. Supposedly he was wondering aloud if the net would hold him if he jumped. Combine that curiosity with a few beers and his friends egging him on, and scientific experiments will ensue.
I’ve wondered that myself. I just haven’t, y’know, tested it.
This board and several threads herein are perfect examples this. Need I mention mangeorge?
Yeah, and serious injury to innocent members of the crowd below ensues if the “experiment” turns into a Darwin-Award-class fuckup on the part of a drunken shitwit with a moldy walnut for a brain. If douchebags like this guy would courteously guarantee they’d break only their own necks during such assays, I’d be all for the clarifying effects on the gene pool, but alas such zooplanktonesque members of the chest-painter set will all-too-likely wind up breaking their fall on a worthwhile human being.
Harpoon the fuckers.
Added Tripi, “I mean, I don’t think I would throw my best friend off a balcony, but you really never know what you’re going to do in situation like that until it happens, you know? Go Yankees!”
Sorry to hijack a thread on stupid yankee fans, but jrfranchi , did you happen to attend MRHS…class of '84? I remember a James in my class. My maiden name was Paybins.
Yes, I take it your first name started with a C, were you in sophmore English with Ms. Littmann?
Yes on the C, no on Mrs. Littman. Geez, English…ugh. I was “blessed” with Duerbig for Freshman English. Sophmore English was with Mr. Leibenberg, who went on to marry my best friend Jan. Their affair started during the summer of Junior year. (They’re divorced and both remarried…he was an ass!)
I just read your senior blurb. Did you go to Vetter, too? Why weren’t you thrown in with the rest of our gifted and talented rejects class? I distinctly remember McLaughlin’s naked antics in DC! How in the world is Chris Taylor? I always thought he’d make a great benevolent dictator somewhere! Your email is disabled, but every time I see Franchi on the dope, I thought, hmmm.
I live in Allentown, but work in RB. I own a florist there. Sean Flynn bartends right across the street! Did you go to the last suck ass reunion? Wasn’t really interested in hanging out at Bar A! If the 25th is at a nicer venue, I’ll probably go!
Now let me go see if my email is disabled too!
Carry on Yankees Fans…GO METS!
I don’t know about the E-mail being disabled but franchi@comcast.net is a working email for me.
I haven’t seen John McLoughlin since HS, I wonder what he’s up to.
Chris has his Doctorate in Astrophysics and is teaching at Sacremento. I was at his wedding last year and he is just had a baby boy last month. He is doing great.
I live in Holmdel and work in Toms River. My wife works right in Middle-Town.
I passed on reunion also.
I didn’t realize my Email had to activated on the boards, I just did so.
I didn’t realize my Email had to be activated on the boards, I just did so.
Wow, I’ve developed a really strange stutter.
How does that happen? :smack: