Not that he should have been fined, but stopping in the middle of a time trial does show a bit of a lax approach to the race going on.
Yeah, that’s kinda crazy.
My wife did IronMans (men?). Once at the end of the race, the running part our niece cut out of the crowd and joined her for the last part of the race. A BIG no, no. niece blended back into the crowd after a few hundred yards.
At another race, my wifes friend was just coming to the finish line. Her dog burst out of the crowd and finished with her. Umm. Sorrry DNF for that. Big bummer after a 140 mile race. The woman did not care though, she took it in stride. SHE knows she finished.
They are serious about this shit. They have to be or it would turn into a circus.
Maybe, but stopping for a kiss is very French.
Have you seen the Tour de France? The only thing missing is a dancing bear.
Not dancing but…
Huh, not really into watching sports. I was my wife’s sherpa. There are plenty of loud spectators and displays for sure. Keep them off the course for the IronMan is what I’ve seen.
If an athlete wanted to stop, and hug a member of the public over a fence, it would be ok. Provided they where not provided food/water. That’s what aid stations are for.
One wonders what specifically “the device” was and how much the explosion was a malfunction versus its intended function. Of which intended function the guy was blissfully unaware until he was blissfully unaware of anything ever again.
Without “after” pix, IOW a head shot, we’ll never know how much of a head shot he took. Decent bet he never knew what hit him, but we can’t be sure.
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- The lead pic in @Johnny_L.A cite to Yahoo News is, yep, a stock photo unrelated to the actual event. So nothing we can use in our amateur forensics.
I really hate the media industry’s habit of illustrating any story with pictures of something else sorta kinda semi-related maybe but not really. All with no caveat that the pic is deliberately and explicitly misleading about the events described in the accompanying article.
I do have to say though that if one pronounces “yahoo” with a long “a”, the idea of a site called “Yahoo News” that publishes the escapades of rocket surgeons like this fellow makes a certain poetic justice.
I’d just like to ensure my own epitaph is not published in that kind of Yayhoo News. 
In seriousness, let’s all give a thought for his poor wife who had to watch her husband commit inadvertent suicide among friends. That’s gonna leave a scar in her forever. I’m sorry, Lady. You didn’t deserve that.
Yeah, every stupid MFER hurts others. But not thinking about that is part of their stupidity.
As I mentioned in another thread, death by firework hat seems to be a less rare form of natural selection than one might think.
I just assumed they were artillery shells, and these guys were getting an abbreviated but effective lesson on Newton’s 3rd law of motion.
When are people going to start following the proper steps to launch fireworks from their heads? Sad…
Moral of the story: if you’re going to launch fireworks from your head, have plenty of Unguentine on hand.
I’ve just downloaded and expanded the image. None of the words are really words in any language. One of the chemical structures looks like phenol with the hydrogen missing. The diagram is gibberish in every sense. I’ll have to have a look at the article itself.
The article itself is coherent and reasonable. The cited works are all genuine. The researchers have multiple articles to their names. The only thing that’s whacko is that off-the-wall illustration, with its nonsense anatomy, chemistry, and gobbledegook captions.
The journal Medicine out of Baltimore exisdts, and the cited article appears in Google Scholar
It’s even been cited once already.
Can you cite something sarcastically?
(see Tai’s rule (the trapezoidal rule, “discovered” by a medical student in 1994)
You can, but they don’t appear to have done so. It looks as if they wanted to cite all recent papers on the topic.
How the heck did that illustration make it into the paper? The writers would obviously know it was BS and not knowingly include it, at least I hope not knowingly include it. It’s so odd.
And thus does the 4th-tier research assistant get his (almost certainly “his”) revenge. Knowing his degree path is hopeless and he’s been treated like a dog by these principals he wants to go out in a blaze of glory.
Sort like the flight attendant who after the jet parked grabbed a beer from the galley, took a big swig amongst the passengers, then opened an exit, activating the slide, and slid down to Glorious Freedom while waving the beer and shouting obscenities.
TLDR: Hey y’all! Watch this!
Did you at least consider retiring like that?
Just a reminder that’s a real incident, there’s even a Wikipedia page for it.
Sure it was stupid and reckless but that dude had style.
He then activated the emergency inflatable slide, exited the plane, and threw his tie on the tarmac before calmly walking to his Jeep.
If the plane exploded as he walked away it would have been a real life 80s action film.
Thanks @Atamasama.
@Darren_Garrison:
We often trash-talk about such ideas at the bar. I’ve heard some pretty outlandish ideas for one last FU aimed at the company. None dangerous, all highly embarrassing to a staid and brutally humorless corporation.
In my case I did not know which was my last flight until 4 days after it had happened. That’s unusual, but far from rare. As I was flying it I was certainly aware it might be, in fact probably would be. Turns out I was right.
There are a lot of post-retirement goodies the company can withhold if they feel like being jerks about it and choose to fire you over something you just did the day before you’d otherwise retire.
That FA was quitting mid-career that fateful day and there was really nothing their employer could withhold from them as last ditch leverage revenge. They did however end up with a “do not rehire” note in their Permanent File. So there is that 