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Ellie Flynn / Feb 27, 2016 / News

Backpacker tragedy: Three dead

THREE British tourists have died in Vietnam while climbing waterfalls with an unauthorised tour guide.

THREE British tourists have died in Vietnam while climbing waterfalls with an unauthorised tour guide.

flabdablet

swim you miserable fuckers, swim for your lives

swayde

I'm not allowed to like

Arantor

It's ok, I liked it for you.

but it registered under my name, guess you're out of power?

Kuro

Did you catch a severe case of the blakeys?

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PWolff

Just some other Darwin Award candidates, so what.

I wonder if tragedy is the right word. Maybe, because they challenged the powers above them and duly failed.

dse

@PWolff said:

Darwin Award candidates

Nope. How is it different from climbing Mount Everest with bad equipment in the 60s? Or Wingsuit base jumps? Some people are just more alive than the rest of us.
IT folks and us keyboard champions live a half-life, we should get the Darwin Award.

@PWolff said:

tragedy is the right word

Yes. Young an beautiful and full of life, and of course dumb.

Bort

@dse said:

Some people are just more alive than the rest of us.

If by "alive" you mean "dead", then yes.

dse

Alive when they lived of course. We all will be dead sooner or later, 5060 years (my over-optimistic estimate) is nothing compared to anything in nature.

Yamikuronue

3 posts were merged into an existing topic: I see Mormon missionaries eating in the same restaurant in Korea! Should I go talk to them?!

jmp

@dse said:

IT folks and us keyboard champions live a half-life, we should get the Darwin Award.

Live slow; die never.

PWolff

@dse said:

Nope. How is it different from climbing Mount Everest with bad equipment in the 60s? Or Wingsuit base jumps?

Good point.

Or, like the people that tried to sail around the Earth.

After all, playing, even with our lives, is inherent in our genes. And of tremendous advantage to the adaptation of our species.

Anyway, the people climbing the Mount Everest in those times got the best equipment that was available and they could afford.

The linked-to article doesn't state whether those tourists knew that the guide was unauthorised, or at least were in a position where a sane person had enough evidences to have deliberately shut their eyes to not estimate that very probable.

If an average sane person wouln't suspect the guide unauthorised, it would be a sad accident, if the guide was e. g. much cheaper than the official ones, those tourist would IMNSHO very well qualify for a Darwin Award.

@dse said:

@PWolff said:
tragedy is the right word

Yes. Young an beautiful and full of life, and of course dumb.

I keep forgetting that the word "tragic" is demoted to the meaning of "sad".

In the original sense, it related to the Ram (Greek tragos) Festivals, then to the classical theatre where a human challenges the deities or Fate and gets put down in turn.

If this was a classic tragedy, the guide would become an atoner for the rest of his lifetime.