WEST RUTLAND, Vt. --A 19-year-old Shrewsbury man died after he jumped from a moving vehicle while imitating a stunt from the television show "Jackass," the Vermont State Police said.
Police are treating the death of Adam Page as an "apparent accidental death."
A friend of Page videotaped the stunt from the front passenger seat and then grabbed the wheel. Two unidentified juveniles were sitting in the back seat of the car, one of whom was also videotaping the stunt, police said.
After Page jumped from the car, the friend, Adam Cota, 18, turned the car around and drove back to where Page was laying in the roadway.
They called for an ambulance after realizing Page was unresponsive. Page was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.
Police: Man dies while mimicking TV show
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Re: Police: Man dies while mimicking TV show
The television show was called, "Jackass." Enough said.brianc wrote:. . . while imitating a stunt from the television show "Jackass," . . .
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I'm always skeptical when a tv show is claimed to be a source of a kids behavior. A few years ago parents sued MTV when their children burned down their home claiming they were imitating a stunt on Beavis and Butthead. But then it came out before the trilal that they didn't have cable and had never seen the show.
Plus, I've always felt that if teenagers are dumb enough to jump from a moving car, they get what they deserved. And this is from a guy who pulled some pretty stupid crap in his teen years.
Plus, I've always felt that if teenagers are dumb enough to jump from a moving car, they get what they deserved. And this is from a guy who pulled some pretty stupid crap in his teen years.
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Yup, and this kid gets one in my book! At least he wont be spreading his genes throughout the genepool anymore...GaryKelly wrote:I thought the Darwin Awards were invented to reward this kind of thing?Joseph E. Smith wrote:Stupidity is it's own reward... tragic as this incident was.
By the way, the TV show should be called sh*t instead of Jackass...
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I think there are plenty of stupid, self-destructive people. The frequency at which they eliminate themselves, each other, and the rest of us based upon television is just a mark of how prevalent television is in our society.
If you remove the television from the scenario, unfortunately, the stupid people remain. They would simply take their inspiriation for their idiocy from other sources.
That said, I have seen the "Jackass" show, and really didn't find anything in it which lead me to ever want to watch it again.
Television itself has very little appeal for me anymore, and it's pretty rare that you'd find me watching it.
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If you remove the television from the scenario, unfortunately, the stupid people remain. They would simply take their inspiriation for their idiocy from other sources.
That said, I have seen the "Jackass" show, and really didn't find anything in it which lead me to ever want to watch it again.
Television itself has very little appeal for me anymore, and it's pretty rare that you'd find me watching it.
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I grew up in the deep south and television never seemed necessary for people to do stupid things. Just boredom and intoxicants seemed enough.peeplj wrote:<snip>If you remove the television from the scenario, unfortunately, the stupid people remain. They would simply take their inspiriation for their idiocy from other sources.</snip>
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I hate to admit it, but I did catch it a few times and enjoy some of the candid camera style bits. The stunts didn't do much for me.peeplj wrote: That said, I have seen the "Jackass" show, and really didn't find anything in it which lead me to ever want to watch it again.
We used to pull stupid stunts when we were young because, well, we were young and stupid. [grump old man]why in my day we didn't need tv to tell us to perform stupid stunts, we came up with our own and we liked it that way...[/grump old man]
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