UpNorth_Buckeye
Assistant Coach
Yep. Until they install heat into the pond, it's too damn dangerous. I'm guessing he was in too long and was too drunk to tell his body was shutting down.
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Overreaction? Somebody died during an event that has been criticized for being unsafe for years. Died as in isn't alive anymore.
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Is that prohibitively expensive? You'd probably only need to do it one week per year, assuming it would not deteriorate without regular use.
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UpNorth_Buckeye
Assistant Coach
After I typed heating the pond half in jest, why don't they? I'm sure there's a way to get temporary heating of some kind.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Yes, done. A kid is dead, and the university is going to be paying his folks a 7-figure settlement. Letting shitfaced kids jump into frigid water was always a tragedy waiting to happen. It's just sad that it took this to clarify that.
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Oh no question
just a nod to the absurdity (I get the exposure to litigation for the university)
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If the attendance numbers were accurate for Mirror Lake jump (they obviously are not) I'd be curious if more people die from cardiac arrest in the stadium watching games than jumping into frigid waters.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
I think if you divided all the people who have ever done it into that one death, the mirror lake jump just became equal statistically to the deadliest airline on the planet.
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In any case, it's a damn shame that someone did something intended to just be fun, and has now forfeited their life.
It was called a cardiac event, so is it possible the person had a condition already, or was it classified that way but was a result of hypothermia?
It was called a cardiac event, so is it possible the person had a condition already, or was it classified that way but was a result of hypothermia?
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Perhaps we should ban spectators at football games as i can imagine somebody has had a heart attack during a game.
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Onebuckfan
classof76
I am an alumnus and the mirror lake jump seems to Aggie for me now and stupid when I was in school. Who leaves a warm bar to jump in a cesspool ?
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Fundamentally different. People can have a heart attack walking down the street or sleeping in their bed too. Nothing in common with the university allowing an on-campus event that actually encourages (often drunken) behavior that can be the catalyst for injury or death.
I could have a heart attack right now reading BP, and that would be nature. If I undressed, got drunk and took my laptop out onto the deck in a blizzard and had a heart attack while reading BP, that wouldn't be nature. It would be stupidity. The university was condoning stupidity.
Spare me the pussification bullshit. This--or at least something coming close to it--was bound to happen sooner or later, and now the university is going to pay for it. And if they were to let it continue, their legal liability would be exponential the next time something happens. Shut it down.
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SloopyHangOn
WhoO WhoO WhoO!
Haven't you heard?
Caring for the wellbeing of others is akin to being a pussy "in today's world".
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Guess it looks like Ohio State will indeed try to end the jump.
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/the-o...ate-says-it-will-work-to-end-mirror-lake-jump
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/the-o...ate-says-it-will-work-to-end-mirror-lake-jump
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