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Kinda sucks, don't it?

Posted by Spoogie | March 21, 2008 2:18 PM
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I don't get it.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | March 21, 2008 2:21 PM
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This is particularly topical for me. I'm reading Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, with the infamous story "guts". I can picture this scene a little too clearly for my own comfort.

Posted by MonkeyNose | March 21, 2008 2:24 PM
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@3~ I totally wondered what Mr. Palahnuik thought of that news item when it was first reported. I was unlucky (or foolish enough) To have read that story over lunch.

Posted by orangekrush | March 21, 2008 2:27 PM
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Megan—this post is a Lydia Davis story. In fact, Lydia Davis is crying right now because she didn't write it first.

Posted by Brendan Kiley | March 21, 2008 2:31 PM
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Robert A. Heinlein wrote a sci fi story called "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" where they survive an air leak in a tunnel on the moon by sitting on the hole. Obviously now we know that wouldn't have worked.

Posted by elenchos | March 21, 2008 2:41 PM
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Good fucking God!

Just read the article. Wish I hadn't.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | March 21, 2008 2:57 PM
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That is so sad! :(

Posted by Patrick | March 21, 2008 3:02 PM
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@6 Little different. That was a pinhole leak, and he used his cheek.

Still, I'm with the other commenters who are thinking about "Guts."

Posted by Gitai | March 21, 2008 3:56 PM
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Dude what the fuck.

Posted by catnextdoor | March 21, 2008 5:06 PM
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Christ, was that just a few months ago? Seems like I heard about it a loooong time ago.

My sympathies to the family.

This was just absolutely senseless and preventable.

Posted by Wolf | March 21, 2008 5:34 PM
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I really don;t get why pool drains should be so powerful. Really, why not set it to painful hickey as opposed to disemboweling. Is there something I'm missing?

Posted by Giffy | March 21, 2008 5:38 PM
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i'm with you, giffy. this kind of thing has happened repeatedly over the years. how hard could it be to change the technology?

Posted by ellarosa | March 22, 2008 12:22 AM
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@13, Exactly. Why can't there be five or ten intake ports instead of one?

Posted by lawrence clark | March 22, 2008 4:07 AM

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