This Is When You Know

[Cinjin]

Back in the 80's we had a lunch room routine called "The Stupidest Way to Die Contest." In essence, since we all sat around reading the various NY papers anyway, if we came upon a candidate it would be proposed for a vote to see if it could replace the current champion.

For a long time the leader was a parachute instructor who jumped out of a plane without a parachute.

This next fellow probably wouldn't have beaten "parachute halfwit," but I think this is a contender:

In 1992, 38-year-old Greg Austin Gingrich leaped atop the guard wall and wind-milled his arms, playing-acting losing his balance to scare his teenaged daughter, then he comically "fell" off the wall on the canyon side onto a short slope where he assumed he could land safely. As his daughter walked on, trying not to fuel her father's dangerous antics by paying attention to them, Gingrich missed his footing and fell silently about 400 feet into the void. It took rangers quite a while to locate his body -- and to determine that his daughter was an orphan only due to his foolishness.