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7/22/2007 3:15:37 AM EDT





news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_us_tourist_death

US teen killed in abandoned Mexican mine

Sat Jul 21, 11:45 PM ET

MEXICO CITY - A 16-year-old U.S. tourist fell 1,000 feet to his death at an abandoned mine in central Mexico, and rescue workers were trying to recover his body on Saturday.

Witnesses told police that Taylor Crane tried to jump over the 10-foot-wide shaft of the Cinco Senores mine in Guanajuato state and fell in Friday, said Jose Felix Velazquez, a spokesman for police in San Luis de la Paz, where the mine is located.

Felix Velazquez said about 40 searchers have been working on the recovery effort, which has been complicated because the mine is flooded with water that "has a lot of arsenic and lead, and that makes it hard to breath down there."

He said Crane was from Pennsylvania, but did not know his hometown.

Crane arrived from the nearby tourist haven of San Miguel de Allende with a group that was visiting abandoned mines and haciendas, Felix Velazquez said.
7/22/2007 3:17:49 AM EDT
[#1]
*sniff* *sniff*

Yep I can feel it already there is more oxygen for me.

Oxygen thief down.
7/22/2007 3:18:00 AM EDT
[#2]
Adios idiot.
7/22/2007 3:18:23 AM EDT
[#3]
Ban mines!
7/22/2007 3:23:05 AM EDT
[#4]
Now, what would give someone the bright idea to try jumping a mine shaft that leads to a very deep hole?

Darwin is chuckling tonight.  
7/22/2007 4:01:45 AM EDT
[#5]
Do they have room for some more idiots at the bottom of that mine?
7/22/2007 4:29:46 AM EDT
[#6]
can you say lib-tard??
7/22/2007 6:18:30 AM EDT
[#7]
right click save as


right click save as



poor kid  
7/22/2007 6:31:59 AM EDT
[#8]
Maybe he found the Holy Grail and was trying to escape with it...

7/22/2007 6:33:47 AM EDT
[#9]
1000 foot drop and they are looking for a body?

Sounds like he would have been liquefied on impact.
7/22/2007 6:44:48 AM EDT
[#10]

Quoted:
1000 foot drop and they are looking for a body?

Sounds like he would have been liquefied on impact.


nah just broken bones,

probably nailed his head on the way down, so he died instantly.

lucky for him, he didnt survive the fall, and die very slowly with a jagged rock sticking out of his gut.
7/22/2007 7:01:58 AM EDT
[#11]
I've always figured it's not the fall that kills, you, or the sudden stop at the end, it's the realization on the way down that yes, you are that incredibly stupid.

He chose......poorly.
7/22/2007 7:04:56 AM EDT
[#12]
Yeah, but if he had made it across just think of what that would have got him!
7/22/2007 7:07:04 AM EDT
[#13]
...just falling to a gruesome death some Mexican was unwilling to. NAFTA, baby!
7/22/2007 7:11:07 AM EDT
[#14]

I bet they send the family a bill for the recovery costs... and damage to the mine floor.

7/22/2007 7:11:29 AM EDT
[#15]
It was only 10 feet........... WTF??  You can't jump 10 feet??  Pussy.

7/22/2007 7:12:36 AM EDT
[#16]
Ah, this is the first post I've looked at this morning and my day is off to a good start.

It's safe to say he won't be on a future episode of MTV's "Scarred."

The Mexican govt. should make the family pay for the retrieval.

7/22/2007 7:13:07 AM EDT
[#17]
Bush's fault
7/22/2007 7:16:34 AM EDT
[#18]
play stupid games....win stupid prizes.
7/22/2007 7:17:13 AM EDT
[#19]

16 year old American kids should be mowing lawns, picking lettuce or flipping burgers HERE in the summer - not gallivanting around Mexican mines.



7/22/2007 7:21:49 AM EDT
[#20]
7/22/2007 7:31:33 AM EDT
[#21]
It ain't the fall that kills ya, it's that pesky sudden stop.  
7/22/2007 9:33:40 AM EDT
[#22]
We should start charging people for that!  If you charge for something, no matter what it is, people will come!  We could say, "If you can jump across this hole you win a prize!"  Then the fine print would say, "If you fail, the fee you paid will be added to the prize."  A 1000 foot hole should be able to hold millions of dumbasses!  Think of how much better the world would be!

7/22/2007 9:35:21 AM EDT
[#23]

Quoted:
Ban mines!

+1
it's for the greater good of the children
7/22/2007 9:39:11 AM EDT
[#24]
Dumbass.
7/22/2007 10:49:21 AM EDT
[#25]
We need new legislation to require all mine shaft holes be 5ft at the most.
7/22/2007 10:52:58 AM EDT
[#26]

Quoted:
play stupid games....win stupid prizes.

7/22/2007 10:57:43 AM EDT
[#27]

Quoted:
We should start charging people for that!  If you charge for something, no matter what it is, people will come!  We could say, "If you can jump across this hole you win a prize!"  Then the fine print would say, "If you fail, the fee you paid will be added to the prize."  A 1000 foot hole should be able to hold millions of dumbasses!  Think of how much better the world would be!



Yah, but then there are two things that will happen

1. When the hole fills up to around 700 feet people are not going to die any more just get really really hurt.

2. Your going to get some olympic long jumper come along and win the prize.
7/22/2007 10:59:46 AM EDT
[#28]
<shakes head>

At least it didn't happen in the City on my shift.
7/22/2007 10:17:40 PM EDT
[#29]

Quoted:
It was only 10 feet........... WTF??  You can't jump 10 feet??  Pussy.



Gravity is a bitch.
7/22/2007 10:21:05 PM EDT
[#30]
Enemy Mine

"Earthman... your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope!!"
7/22/2007 10:42:47 PM EDT
[#31]
Shafted