Treacy: As a guy who used to drink a lot of beer and roar off on my BMW
bike, I would say a lot of this behavior is just youthful
machismo. After laying down the bike and smelling my self burn a
couple of times it occurred to me that I might be courting death.
I stopped before killing myself and thus still remain in the
shallow end of the gene pool.
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, James Devine wrote:
> this kind of thing always evokes a chuckle (as with NEWS OF THE WIERD's
> recent story about a man who died because he played "catch" using a
> poisonous snake, which was titled "the thinning of the herd").
>
> But it's very crude Darwinism. (There's no guarantee that these idiots
> didn't contribute to the gene pool before their escapades; in the case of
> the man with the lawn-chair and the balloons, he could easily make
> contribution even afterwards.) Further, it ignores the entire sociological
> dimension. Specifically, these actions seem to reflect the bizarre form of
> alienation the infests US culture along with a lot of macho craziness.
>
> While it's fun to laugh at this kind of stupidity, it's important to note
> that many or even most of the people in pen-l are immersed in the same
> culture.
