Just Say "Duh!"

>[AP, Mammoth Lakes, CA] A San Anselmo man died yesterday when he hit a
lift
>tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a
foam
>pad, authorities said. Matthew David Hubal, 22, was pronounced dead at
>Centinela Mammoth Hospital.  The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the
Mono
>County Sheriff's Department said.  Hubal and his friends apparently had
>hiked up a ski run called Stump Alley and undid some yellow foam
protectors
>from the lift towers, said Lieutenant Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth
Lakes
>Police Department.  The pads are used to protect skiers who might hit
the
>towers.  The group apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope
and
>Hubal crashed into a tower. It has since been investigated that the
tower he
>hit was the one with its pad removed.
>
>
>[AP, St. Louis, MO] Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly
in a
>St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call police, Puelo
grabbed a
>hot dog, shoved it in his mouth, and walked out without paying for it.
>Police found him unconscious in front of the store: paramedics removed
the
>six-inch wiener from his throat, where ithad choked him to death.
>
>
>[UPI, Spain] To poacher Marino Malerba, who shot a stag standing above
>him on an overhanging rock -- and was killed instantly when it fell on
>him.
>
>
>Man's Loses Face at Party [Associated Press, Kincaid, W. VA] A man at a
>party popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an
>explosion that blew off his lips, teeth and tongue, state police said
>Wednesday.  Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a
>prank during a party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D. Payne. 
"Another
>man had it in an aquarium, hooked to a battery, and was trying to
explode it,"
>Payne said. "It wouldn't go off and this guy said, "I'll show you how
to set
>it off."  "He put it in his mouth and bit down. It blew all his teeth
off,
>his tongue and his lips," Payne said. Stromyer was listed in guarded
>condition Wednesday with extensive facial injuries, according to a 
>spokesman at Charleston Area Medical Division. "I just can't imagine 
>anyone doing something like that," Payne said.
>
>
>[UPI, Portland, OR] Doctors at Portland's University Hospital said
>Wednesday an Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow is 
>lucky to be alive, and will be released soon from the hospital.  Tony 
>Roberts, 25, lost his right eye last weekend during an initiation into
>a men's rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous, in Grants Pass, Ore. A 
>friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow entered 
>Roberts' right eye. Doctors said had the arrow gone 1 millimeter to the
>left, a major blood vessel would have cut and Roberts would have died 
>instantly.  Neurosurgeon Dr. Johnny Delashaw at the University Hospital

>in Portland said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of brain, with 
>the tip protruding at the rear of his skill, yet somehow managed to
miss 
>all major blood vessels. Delashaw also said had Robert tried to pull
the 
>arrow out on his own he surely would have killed himself. Roberts
admitted 
>afterwards he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Said 
>Roberts, "I feel so dumb about this." No charges have been filed but
the 
>Josephine County district attorney's office said the initiation stunt
is 
>under investigation.
Paul Whiteside	     
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