Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit

BigSes writes "A 23-year old man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version of the video game Frogger. Authorities said the 23-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Anderson after he was struck Monday evening. Before he was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his friends. Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man yelled 'go' and darted into oncoming traffic in the four-lane highway. Has it come time to ban some of the classics before someone else goes out and breaks a few bricks with their heads after eating a large mushroom?"

Comments

Stupid is as stupid does.

[mmcxii]

The hospital was sad to announce that the patient is expected to live, letting yet another idiotic gimp to roam the streets.

Re:Stupid is as stupid does.

[dwarfsoft]

First thing I thought of was the oblig. xkcd.

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[abednegoyulo]

Of course he will live. He still has two lives left!

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[Penguinshit]

Sorry, douchebag. The new rules would ensure he has insurance so we don't pay for him in unpaid emergency room expenses which raise costs for the rest of us.

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[Anonymous Coward]

And if he'd not been insured or covered in any way, do you think the hospital would just go "crap" and not pay the doctors, suppliers of medicines, etc, involved in treating this incident?

No. No they would not. They would just do what they've always done, and jacked up the prices for everyone else, until the hospital was no longer taking a loss.

Emergency room medical costs of those who can't afford it will always be payed by the rest of society, either explicitly and easily predictably and fairly by government mandate, or implicitly and moderately predictably and less fairly by the costs of everyone else who uses that hospital/ER.

In one of those scenarios, the overhead of the system is like 2% of the costs of the overall healthcare system (e.g.: Canada). In the other, it's like 25% (e.g.: U.S.).

Re:Stupid is as stupid does.

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Work hard and pay insurance for dozens of years
2) Get sick
3) Stop being able to work because of sickness
4) Stop paying insurance due to being fired
5) Get insurance canceled
6) Stop getting treatment
7) ???
8) Die.

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[SydShamino]

You're attracting flames because you are acting so smug, thinking you're totally in control of your own life. You aren't. Some people figure this out on their own, and then at least respect those that have fallen. Others, perhaps like you, need to be T-boned by a guy with no insurance, then screwed over by your own insurance company, while trying to manage the onset of cystic fibrosis, before they realize that sometimes bad things happen to good people.

Re:Stupid is as stupid does.

[joocemann]

You are under what is called the "illusion of meritocracy".

It's a delusion that many people encounter where they feel they achieved everything of their own merit and pay no recognition to the vast community and social efforts that actually made it all possible.

Now please explain to me how you would get to work without the roads that WE paid for. You said you pay your own way but I"m pretty sure you didn't pay for all the roads you use. Go ahead and humor me, the truth of the world will give me thousands of examples to embarrass you with.

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[Miseph]

Protip: if your parents can't afford you, don't get born.

I can see that one working out pretty well.

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[dangitman]

No they shouldn't. It isn't his fault that they chose a different job that pays or is worth less than what he gets paid to do.

They chose? People at the bottom of the socio-economic scale don't have a lot of choice in jobs. And in fact, it might be partly his fault for people's lack of job opportunities depending on how he votes, etc.

Not everything is even or the same. People are not the same. I don't know where this idea came from that somehow everyone has to be made the same.

I never suggested everybody needs to be made the same. Just that we shouldn't be so cruel as to let people die in the street if they can't afford insurance. I'm not sure where you are getting this idea that I think people should be "made the same" from.

You are not entitled to pull the rich down and steal from them because you think they make too much. They took huge risks that you wouldn't take.

Bullshit. Many rich people have never taken a risk in their lives. Did Paris Hilton work really hard and take risks to get all of her money? Also, it's generally the poorer workers who help make the rich people's fortune.

We should hold the parents of the kid responsible who decided to have a kid and couldn't afford all the costs of actually having a kid.

So what do we do when the parent is dead or otherwise can't take responsibility? Pointing fingers and blaming people isn't going to save the problem.

Orphans have insurance or get medical care from private charities and doctors who donate their services to charity run orphanages.

So, that's going to solve all the problem, private charities? It doesn't appear to be working very well.

It is not compassion when you steal from me by threat of violence, forcing me to pay for you or your kids when I may or may not want to do that.

Oh, threat of violence. That's funny. You live quite comfortably isolated from the actual threat of violence, while the poor deal with it as a daily threat. By "threat of violence" you actually mean "a few dollars of my taxes."

The government has never been able to do anything better than what the private sector does.

Except for the roads, the fire departments, health services, etc? Do you know what happened when fire departments were privately-run? They went around starting fires to get business. Public health services seem to do quite well outside the US, lowering costs for everybody.

We can take care of ourselves and each other, if the government would just get out of the way.

So, how is government stopping people from doing that now? It's pretty clear that people don't always take care of themselves or others. How is eliminating government services going to magically change that?

Instead the government wants to inject itself in to every aspect of our lives. We have allowed a giant nanny state to develop.

I never said anything about supporting a giant nanny state, or government in all aspects of our lives. I just suggested that we shouldn't let people die in the street, or deny them care when in desperate need. Hardly a radical Statist proposition.

We absolutely can take care of ourselves and do it far better than the government ever possibly could. We don't need the government to do charity or tell us to do charity

There's your problem - the government is supposed to be of the people and for the people. It is supposed to be a part of the "we" you are referring to. But people have become so distanced from the ideas of governance that they have allowed it to become an alien entity.

Ultimately, you're just being selfish and whining about money. But even that is counter-productive, because it would cost a lot more if we did let society fall apart and people die in the streets. Wouldn't you rather pay a lower amount in preventative action to avoid the collapse of society? It's going to be hard to run that business when there's death, disease and looting in the streets.

Anything can be the inspiration for stupidity

[autocracy]

Violent video games claim another victim. Maybe now they'll put that NC-17 rating on that I've been saying for years Frogger needs. Jack Thompson will be vindicated, and Rockstar games will pay for their GTA series.

Maybe when this is all over, we can achieve our ultimate goal of putting a warning label on Tetris.

Sorry...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

You may be more than 18 years of age, and in possession of a y chromosome; but there is No. Fucking. Way. that you have yet graduated to the status of "man" if you are actually playing in traffic because of the influence of Frogger.

Honestly, I can't think of a stupidity-related term that is strong enough and doesn't end up insulting the garden-variety mentally handicapped by putting them in the same basket as this pathetic man-child-thing...

We can only hope that he is sold for parts before he comes up with any other brilliant plans.

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[magarity]

Actually, I'd say that it IS proof of his manhood; after all, do you ever hear of women doing these stupid stunts?

I bet this first time is the last time he ever does it. Yet there are shelters all over the country full of battered women who voluntarily and repeatedly go back for more to abusive boyfriends/husbands.

Darwin Award nominee

[Iphtashu Fitz]

This nutjob is apparently already in the running for a Darwin Award...

http://www.darwinawards.com/slush/new/pending20101229-052307.html

Real-Life Doom Ends In Cemetery Visit

[theodp]

Good thing he stuck with Frogger!

Pac-Man

[Tablizer]

I pulled a Pac-Man and went around the party eating everyone's pizza while trying to avoid the bouncer. I had a tummy-ache for 3 days. Ban the Pac!

Re:What a ridiculous summary.

[digitig]

Can we pass a law that will make it MANDATORY to either execute or sterilize anyone who reacts to this by suggesting that we ban something?

You've just been caught under your own law. Well done.

Evolution in action!

[kawabago]

This is how the gene pool cleans itself.