NASCAR hicks vie for Darwin Award
 

If you allow your 15 year old daughter to smoke at the dinner table,
in front of her kids,
you might be a NASCAR fan ROFL

Billy Bob, Billy Ray, y'all watch them power wires now hear! ROFL

2 fans electrocuted outside Talladega track
Two attempting to anchor flagpole when wind blows it into power line

The Associated Press
Updated: 10:21 a.m. ET April 25, 2006


TALLADEGA, Ala. - Two NASCAR fans were electrocuted in a campground outside Talladega Superspeedway when a flagpole they were erecting touched power lines.

Donny Lynn Wright, 42, of Remlap and Keith Alan Stell, 39, of Birmingham died Monday, said track spokeswoman Kristi King. Talladega County Coroner Jerry Castleberry pronounced them dead at the scene.

The Aaron’s 499 race will be run at the track on Sunday. Fans commonly use poles to fly flags touting their favorite driver.

Witnesses said Wright and Stell were attempting to anchor a flagpole when it was caught by wind and pushed into power lines running along a road outside the track.

“They were trying to pull the flagpole back off the lines,” said James Snider, who was sitting about 30 yards away from the victims’ camp site. “I heard a loud pop that sounded like a firecracker, and I went running because the power lines fell. They were both lying on the ground, and two women were trying to get to them to get them away from the wires.”

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Dave

Ummm, yeah. I also find people being electrocuted hilarious.

Well, damn, Harley, would you look at that!

That's too bad. Hope nothing like that happens at arrowhead.

Wait, has anyone seen chiefs4me around?

A similar thing happened at Fort AP Hill...3 or 4 boyscout leaders were putting up a large tent and the main pole contacted a power line killing several last summer in VA.

after burn flesh smell clears.....

I smell a law suit...against the campground.

No, it's more likely to happen at Invesco Field.

As much as I hate Nascar,I didn't find it amusing either,I did alert my mrs to it though as her and her sisters have a couple of those flag poles they take to the races.

2 weeks till the Ricmond race...I cant wait! Going to both the Busch and Nextel race this year. Also purchased tix for the IRL race in June.

Aint happenin'. :shake: Power lines are not owned by the camp ground.
Now unless you can sue mother nature for making the wind blow, this has no real lawsuit potential. If anything, these guys were too close to the power lines, which by the way, are not invisible. They can clearly be seen and are a known hazard.

Set up a flag pole too close to power lines on a windy day and what do you get?

ZZZZZZZZAP!!!!!

What did we learn from this, Beaver?

Do they not make flagpoles out of non-conductive material these days?

I wouldn't know,I don't go to that much trouble to show my team support.

I think it's pretty safe to say that I dont take any chances with ANY materials near power lines.

Pretty much a 1st-grade taught lesson.