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Early applicant for the 2011 Darwin award?

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article...on-North-Coast

Quote:

Surging waves swept three men out to sea Friday morning near the mouth of the Klamath River in Del Norte County [California], where Coast Guard personnel were still searching for one of the men after his two friends got safely to shore, authorities said.

The missing man would be the first fatality on the North Coast as a tsunami generated by a huge earthquake in Japan continued its assault on the California coast.

The U.S. Coast Guard said he and his friends came to the coast to photograph the tsunami despite warnings from authorities across the state to avoid the area.

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Moral of the story: Tsunamis created 7,000 miles away can still kill you :yep:

Glad two of them escaped.

the camera lowers people's IQ, trust me, almost won a Darwin award myself to get that perfect shot on a couple of occasions

As an amateur photographer, I can understand. But that shot to die for is not worth dying for.

The person who tries and fails to surf the wafe will beat him to the award!:88)

How did I miss this thread! To quote the local news...
The only tsunami that hit ore-gone was the tsunami of people driving out to the coast to see the tsunami.:dead:

God people here are stupid.:dead:

Northwesterners crack me up.:haha: