student was killed in a bizarre stunt
 

"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." ... "The inquest in Taunton, Somerset, heard how the trebuchet was a medieval siege weapon favoured by the Romans, but had been used to fire plague-ridden corpses and other missiles over castle ramparts."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/st...605521,00.html

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What an idiot.

Oddly enough this is not the first trebuchet human tossing death in last few years.

Natural selection hard at work.

What a moron :2 cents:

Just proves you don't have to be smart to get into a expensive college

Oh, invincible teenagers! The laws of physics don't apply to you!

Hehe well I think he was hoping they did. Just apparently the math got mixed up and would explain why he missed the safety net.

Darwin Award nominee.

Ouch, I hope the guy that died was the guy that did the equations..

:heard how the trebuchet was a medieval siege weapon favoured by the Romans, but had been used to fire plague-ridden corpses and other missiles over castle ramparts." "

Saw that on "The Plague" on the history channel the other nite. They said it was history's first use of a weapon of mass destruction lol

Sucks that his thesis will hafta' be submitted posthumously.

Lord love the darwins...


SilentKnight

He Moron - me Jane

Damn..what a way to die..stupid kids

biochem undergrad. You'd think he'd be smartish.

Quite true

stupid gene.

I think I just made a right move not to enroll at oxford.