Mystery Man
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Darwin wins again.
Rel, where are you when we need you?Inquest told of student catapult death
Press Association
Monday October 31, 2005
A student was killed in a bizarre stunt after he was hurled more than 30m through the air by a human catapult, an inquest today heard.
Oxford University student Kostydin Yankov, 19, suffered multiple injuries when he missed a safety net after being flung from a medieval-style trebuchet catapult.
Mr Yankov, a biochemistry undergraduate known as Dino, was part of the university extreme sports club - the Oxford Stunt Factory - who had visited the trebuchet site in Middlemoor Water Park near Bridgwater, Somerset, in November 2002.
reveal said:Bear with me here. It's just a guess, and it might be rampant speculation, but I bet alcohol was involved.
Mr Nelkin from the Article said:"As he hit the ground I heard a thud and then a second thud."
yep been going around for years now mostly it was into water but for some reason people have been flung into nets these day.Crothian said:this type of thing, people being hurled by catepults, is nothing new. I've heard of injuries some severe but this is the first death I've heard of.
That is why we make helmets and put warning labels on everything, bet someone forgot to read the label on that catapult: Not for human use!Brother Shatterstone said:
Some people are just too stupid to live… (Lots of warning signs were missed, like the big one of “you want to shoot me out of a catapult?”)
Unless you're a plague-ridden corpse.Hand of Evil said:...someone forgot to read the label on that catapult: Not for human use!