Originally published at: Man dies after diving 40 feet into 4 foot-deep water | Boing Boing
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On Saturday July 1, 2023, at approximately 1620hrs
4:20pm
Coincidence?
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Well, it was likely alcohol, but luckily it’s always 5 O’Clock somewhere.
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Yeah, it’s good to remind folks that real life isn’t minecraft and diving into water whose depth you don’t know is dangerous. I remember PSAs alone these lines from my childhood, but haven’t seen them recently. Also, it’s for the best that alcohol consumption is decreasing.
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I’ll bet he put away his sidearm before diving. The only way to stop a bad lake with a shallow bottom is to shoot it several times with your permitless carry firearm. That’ll fix it.
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Because people didn’t do this before video games? What’s with the rash of people blaming human behavior that has gone on for millenia on video games?
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Texas. Home to “hold my beer”.
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I dove into a friends above ground pool as a young teen. It was not like the town pool in its depth. My head hit the bottom hard & I hurt a lot. My neck hurt a lot. I could easily have broken my neck. It really scared me.
There were no video games then. Just a dumb kid who didn’t know better.
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Remarkable lack of sympathy for a fellow human. I’m sorry for him and his family.
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That which doesn’t destroy you becomes an anecdote; that which does becomes an epitaph. What a sad event.
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My fellow Texans are not always the best of the best. 
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I hope there were no permanent complications from that dive.
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Thanks- not a bit. Just sore for a day or two.
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