Twitter Death Premonition Comes True

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It was 3:22 p.m., reports Pete Byrne of CBS affiliate WTSB in South Bend, Ind. Practice was just starting, when Sullivan tweeted a grim premonition: "Gusts of wind up to 60 mph. Well today will be fun at work. I guess I've lived long enough."
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This wasn't really a premonition. It was stupidity. If dude knew he was in danger, he should have got out of danger. Natural selection.
 
VeryApe said:
This wasn't really a premonition. It was stupidity. If dude knew he was in danger, he should have got out of danger. Natural selection.
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Fear of losing one's job can overcome fear for one's life. Employers are liable for the working conditions of their employees.
 
tragic story and anyone saying a freaking junior at notre dame deserved to die, well they deserve to take his place.

Was a great, smart kid who didn't deserve to die.
 
What kind of insanity was it to hold football practice in wind gust up to 50 MPH? Also, what is so important about winning that someones child had to die? The colleges and universities really need to reexamine their priorities.
 
THIS is where common sense can save your life.. unfortunately this kid did not use any.. poor guy
 
This is a Darwin Award winner if there ever was one. To tweet repeatedly "OMG, I'm in danger, this sucks, I think I'm going to die!" and then stay on the tower was just moronic. I'm sorry, but he really did deserve to die. And the idiot adults who were supposed to be watching this kid also deserve to be penalized as well.
 
I will say this, His mom and dad should sue the fucking godshit out of notre dame.

sue them till they fucking die
 
Spectrum17 said:
This is a Darwin Award winner if there ever was one. To tweet repeatedly "OMG, I'm in danger, this sucks, I think I'm going to die!" and then stay on the tower was just moronic. I'm sorry, but he really did deserve to die. And the idiot adults who were supposed to be watching this kid also deserve to be penalized as well.
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Not necessarily. He said it was scary, but he was probably trusting that the people in charge of ensuring did their job. It's often difficult to distinguish "feels scary" from actually dangerous.
 
Obi_Kwiet said:
Not necessarily. He said it was scary, but he was probably trusting that the people in charge of ensuring did their job. It's often difficult to distinguish "feels scary" from actually dangerous.
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I would consider pretty much any situation involving a portable lift and 50mph winds to be dangerous. Then again some other sites referred to it as a tower. Would love to see a pic of that thing before it went down.
 
What a bad idea, he should have never gone up with winds that high. Common sense people...
 
OSHA should be stepping in as well. You don't operate elevated machines (cranes, booms, etc) if wind conditions in your area are capable of reaching a certain speed.
 
Spectrum17 said:
This is a Darwin Award winner if there ever was one. To tweet repeatedly "OMG, I'm in danger, this sucks, I think I'm going to die!" and then stay on the tower was just moronic. I'm sorry, but he really did deserve to die. And the idiot adults who were supposed to be watching this kid also deserve to be penalized as well.
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You don't sound too sorry. Darwin Award finalist? Certainly, but saying he deserved to die is being a little misanthropic. Consider this concept the next time you do anything remotely dangerous and get a boo-boo on the knee.
 
Spectrum17 said:
This is a Darwin Award winner if there ever was one. To tweet repeatedly "OMG, I'm in danger, this sucks, I think I'm going to die!" and then stay on the tower was just moronic. I'm sorry, but he really did deserve to die. And the idiot adults who were supposed to be watching this kid also deserve to be penalized as well.
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This is the biggest bag of horsesh-t I've ever heard. He was a kid! Kids do stupid things, this doesn't mean they deserve to die! How many of us at his age would had the courage to stand up to the boss and say I ain't going to do it, very few would be my guess.
 
Nice job main stream media. I'm reading this story on the internet. It's a story about the internet. But I guess your 1908 Underwood doesn't have the keys necessary to provide a link to his profile so I can see the tweets for myself.
 
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Rest in Peace
 
Cajunheat said:
This is the biggest bag of horsesh-t I've ever heard. He was a kid! Kids do stupid things, this doesn't mean they deserve to die! How many of us at his age would had the courage to stand up to the boss and say I ain't going to do it, very few would be my guess.
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How old is this so called kid ? If you got time to tweet in a dangerous situation youve got time to suffer the consquences. It's a terrible result but that doesn't excuse common sense.
 
iTYPE said:
How old is this so called kid ? If you got time to tweet in a dangerous situation youve got time to suffer the consquences. It's a terrible result but that doesn't excuse common sense.
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20 - he's a student, but he's not a kid.
 
20 years old is a kid.

jesus christ that people buy into an arbitrary number defining when a kid is a kid.

18 years old means nothing. Not a damned thing but a number on a page. Holy crap that people are still caught up with bullshit ass definitions of when a person is or isn't a kid.

20 is a fucking kid. 25ish is about the age you can stop calling most people kids.

he was a 20 year old kid.
 
stealthy123 said:
20 years old is a kid.

jesus christ that people buy into an arbitrary number defining when a kid is a kid.

18 years old means nothing. Not a damned thing but a number on a page. Holy crap that people are still caught up with bullshit ass definitions of when a person is or isn't a kid.

20 is a fucking kid. 25ish is about the age you can stop calling most people kids.

he was a 20 year old kid.
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There are men and woman dying for this country younger then he was, right now ! Yet some dumbass gets up on a 40 foot scaffolding to film football practice in 50 mile per hour winds that might I add, have been going on for the past few days, only to get his cell phone out to tell people how bad it is. You just can't make this stuff up.

People are products of there own environment, whens the last time you looked around ?
 
iTYPE said:
There are men and woman dying for this country younger then he was, right now ! Yet some dumbass gets up on a 40 foot scaffolding to film football practice in 50 mile per hour winds that might I add, have been going on for the past few days, only to get his cell phone out to tell people how bad it is. You just can't make this stuff up.

People are products of there own environment, whens the last time you looked around ?
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some kid went to work at what was likely his dream job and he died doing it. His employer should have never even considered putting him up there.

But ya, it's the 20 year old kids fault for not having the sense of an adult. You know, the sense of the person who signed his check.

Seriously, stfu blaming a kid for not having the sense of a 30 year old, he was a fucking college kid.
 
and by the way, the 18 and 19 year old dying for our country are kids too.

that was an absolutely idiotic comparison. Soldiers younger than him die, so he is stupid and deserves to be dead? Are you fucking kidding me?
 
this is sad, he looks like a good guy. kid or not, it is sad that neither he nor others who are paid to be in charge took clear enough notice of the danger and got him down.

the internet really brings out the assholes though..."he deserved to die"? really? just because you didnt know him doesnt make it any less sad...
 
Hope his parents can find peace in the millions they will win from Notre Dame. R.I.P.
 
stealthy123 said:
and by the way, the 18 and 19 year old dying for our country are kids too.

that was an absolutely idiotic comparison. Soldiers younger than him die, so he is stupid and deserves to be dead? Are you fucking kidding me?
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Please do not twist my words around into false statements, you do well enough on your own.
 
It's absolutely staggering that in the ~45 minutes he was up there, not a single person at the practice raised the issue (that the kid shouldn't be up there). Tragic.
 
He did not deserve to die, but he had a huge hand in his own death.
And NO he is not a kid, 20 is not a kid unless he had a learning disability. Even if he was only 15 he should have had enough sense to come down out of a tower swaying and shaking absurdly in the high winds, with metal squealing from the stresses it was under. It's ridiculous to assert he had no warning, or inkling that he was putting his life on the line, to photo a practice session. A practice session, in winds so high that the team was prolly doing little more than ground drills.
 
Sad story all the way around. Many are to blame for this foolishness.
 
I am sitting here wondering the age of the people who adamant about this boy not being a kid? I'm in my mid 50's and in my eye he still had a lot of maturing to do, in other words he was a just a kid, maybe foolish but he was still a kid!
 
Looks to me like he was up there to get his hairstyle looking extra good.



Too early?
 
Wow, how many asshats do we have on this forum? "He deserved to die"....Really?

A friend of my mom's has a son on the ND football team. Poor guy had to see the kid that fell lying there in a giant pool of blood. I'm sure that is an image that he (and the rest of the team) will have burned into their memory for the rest of their lives. It's a terrible situation all the way around :(
 
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