The men each drank a couple of beers before the accident, they said. . .

[taterguy]

A couple morons, a "couple" beers, a river when it's been raining all week.

What could go wrong?

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/jun/07/men-clung-to-tree-after-boat-sank/news/

[petronius]

1. Wow, what a totally unforeseeable, unlucky, low-probability outcome!

It just goes to show how unfair life can be sometimes...

:)

[struggle4progress]

10. Yep. What defense is there against the flying fickle finger of fate?

[siligut]

2. "I got me a boat and kept it about three hours and it was gone," Eldridge said.

Have to wonder where that boat will end up.

[taterguy]

5. Boat probably smashed against the dam at Idols Road

Or got stuck on a bridge abutment

Or washed up in someone's cow pasture

[siligut]

6. I am hoping something good came of the idiocy.

Maybe someone just got a new, free boat.

[taterguy]

7. Did you read the article?

The boat is obviously defective.

[siligut]

8. I read it as human error.

Guy paid $100 for a defective boat? Don’t think so. Well, maybe.

[KG]

3. famous redneck last words: 'here. hold mah beer....'

'i'm going out on a flooded river in the dark in a boat with no motor! woohoo!'

[taterguy]

9. It was light outside when they left

How were they supposed to know the sun would be setting soon?

[davsand]

11. You may have started a new saying in my house.

I was LMAO and kevsand had to ask why. I read him your post title and immediately we were off and running with "famous last words of rednecks" where every one ended up with 'here. hold mah beer.'


"What the hell is dat ting? Here. hold mah beer."

"I ain't never seen nuttin like dat before. Here. hold mah beer."

"Hey, check DIS out! Here. hold mah beer."

"I swear I seen it run down dat hole. Here. hold mah beer."



Darwin in action. You have to love it.

:shrug:

Laura

[bluedigger]

4. Oh, Eldridge!

"Both men had been out tubing on the river recently when Eldridge's tube blew out and he had to be rescued while clinging to a tree in the river. That was during the day and the water hadn't been as high, the men said." :shrug:


"I got me a boat and kept it about three hours and it was gone," Eldridge said.:rofl:


Oh, Eldridge!
:think:

[Cannikin]

12. Famous Arkansas last words: Hey ya'll, watch THIS!

[madmom]

13. "Breathing in water has got to be the worst way to go," ...

Hodges said. "I will close my eyes and feel myself drowning."

I wonder what this guy thinks about the use of waterboarding?

[taterguy]

14. I don't think this guy thinks very much

[sarge43]

15. I'm gonna try dat dair thinkin' thang ever'bodys talkin' about. Here hold my beer." n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

17. You and I had the exact same thought

Let's hope a Repuke got converted!

[taterguy]

18. There are plenty of dumbass Dems in this part of the country

Junior Johnson endorsed Obama

Junior's not a dumbass, but lots of his fans are.

[DS1]

16. Jesus, the author is just as illiterate as those two scumbags

"I got me a boat"



Oh well, know your market.