Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit 314
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?"
Stupid is as stupid does. (Score:5, Funny)
Survival of the fittest... (Score:2)
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He'll get his Darwin award soon enough, and the world will be stronger for it.
Yup. Evolution at work right there. Almost took him out of the running so to speak. Maybe next time. I am sure there will be a next time :)
*sips coffee*
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You don't know what evolution is, do you?
Neither do you apparently. Given the size of the human population, an early death has little effect on the overall gene pool and who is to say that they have not already contributed to the gene pool?
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You don't know what evolution is, do you?
I do. I believe he meant 'natural selection', where natural selection is a driving force for evolution, but in itself is not evolution at all.
On another note, apparently the game Natural Selection 2 is due out very soon. The first was an AMAZINGLY fun mod for half life... i'm not sure the details of NS2 because I just heard about it yesterday but... well... its likely gonna be sick.
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I'd be careful with skin colour. It takes about 100 generations to go from white to pitch black (or reverse). That's hardly enough to develop what would be a new race, from a genetic standpoint.
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Re:Stupid is as stupid does. (Score:4, Funny)
First thing I thought of was the oblig. xkcd [xkcd.com].
Re:Stupid is as stupid does. (Score:5, Funny)
Of course he will live. He still has two lives left!
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The money for insurance for those that haven't paid for their own has to come from SOMEWHERE... Guess who gets THAT bill? I'll give you a hint, its not the recipient of the substandard insurance that the government mandates.
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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 governm
Re:Stupid is as stupid does. (Score:5, Informative)
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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It's all variations on the same theme:
1. Be born
2. Live for a finite period
3. Die
In the big picture it really doesn't matter what you do. Unless you're part of figuring out how to make the species independent of the Sun sometime in the next 5 billion years, nothing you do is important.
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I have a sporadic debilitating disease. I had a small house, car, etc. I had no debt outside of mortgage. I had a healthy savings account. I continued to work until physically incapable.
And two years later all of that is gone and I am reduced to begging on the internet while my family drains their resources too.
It is easy to talk tough when you have no experience or understanding.
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Call me heartless, but if you want cover, work hard for it like I do.
What evidence do we have that you actually "work hard"? You might have just been lucky and/or privileged. I'd wager that there are people who work much harder than you do, but don't get paid enough to afford decent insurance. By your logic, shouldn't they be more entitled to insurance, because they work harder than you?
Or what about children who belong to parents who can't afford insurance (or are orphans). Should we just let them die and suffer because a 12-year-old didn't save enough money from their pape
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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. 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. That has never been what America has stood for since the beginning. You are promised life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nowhere in there does it say you were promised a job, a house,health insurance, a family or any of these oth
Re:Stupid is as stupid does. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Why? Because you say so?
Me and billions of other people do not believe that the rich are entitled to what they believe to be their "property". Nothing they, or you can do to convince us, and there are more of us.
And guess what? I get paid more than you, and produce more useful things than you can ever hope for. I just realize that things do not work like your Social Conservative fantasy world.
Fuck you, fuck your masters, and most of all fuck their ideologues who stuff pre-made thoughts into the brains of th
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So, the children of people who make this mistake, should be just thrown in the trash, because of the mistakes of their parents?
Notice also that I mentioned orphans. Rich people can die and leave behind children too. Aside from death, people who currently can afford kids may run into financial misfortune.
Re:Stupid is as stupid does. (Score:4, Funny)
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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I'd like to be more accurate than that. You're a psychopath. Please get out of the gene pool just in case that's genetic!
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You should really just stop posting or talking or interacting with people unless they're psychiatric medical professionals.
You are a sociopath. You should be locked up. For life.
Re:Stupid is as stupid does. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Unfair? Your blind greed and selfishness is being used aginst you. You're paying insurance companies 10X what an Aussie pays their government for a better service.
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Yea got to love government rationed health care. It is rationed because there is only so much to spend on it each year, it has a budget. It isn't infinite money to spend on health care every year. I would hope at some point they say that you can't get any more health care so others can get some, rather than do without because a few people are hogging it. That gets you long waiting lists for the really expensive treatments and surgeries. Does the government handle all medical research in socialized medicine?
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Yes, long waiting lists like in the UK. When I went to my doctor with some persistent sinus problems, I had to wait nearly 24 hours to get an appointment for a CT scan. As it turns out, I ended up waiting two weeks. Why? Because he wanted to use one of the nice new CT scanners but they had only just been installed and not calibrated yet, and I'm a sucker for new toys too. Apparently they take time to settle, during which time they need to be recalibrated constantly.
Re:Stupid is as stupid does. (Score:4, Interesting)
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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He does pay his way because the people who make the roads have set an amount that he should contribute each year in the form of taxes and he pays that in order to use the roads. So he is paying exactly what the road makers tell him he should pay. It is even more directly true when you talk about toll roads. If he paid for the entire road he could tell people piss off and make your own road like I did. That isn't practical so one company, the state/city, owns all the roads and charges everyone a percentage/p
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He does pay his way because the people who make the roads have set an amount that he should contribute each year in the form of taxes and he pays that in order to use the roads. So he is paying exactly what the road makers tell him he should pay.
So, why is that OK for roads, but not for hospitals and health care?
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Um, I don't think you know how health insurance works. If this guy has paid, say, $2000 for health insurance, and his little foray racks up $20,000 in hospital expenditures, then we have paid the other $18,000 as the other insurance pool members. Where do you think the money comes from, the big money tree in the back of each hospital? I am working on the assumption that someone this idiotic probably would not have been covered if he wasn't forced to pay.
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Having a condition that would be fatal without expensive surgery - and having the govt pick up the bill - is one of those things that makes one really, really glad about living in a socialist (mixed-economy) country.
And really makes the situation in the US look utterly, thoroughly disgusting.
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I am working on the assumption that someone this idiotic probably would not have been covered if he wasn't forced to pay.
That's a pretty big assumption. We have no idea if he had done anything like this before. And even if he did, if there wasn't police involvement how would the insurance company know?
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... and yet you neglect the likelihood that, because of Obamacare, the guy retains his health insurance for the next 30 years, paying in $60,000 over that time.
Most people have to visit the ER a few times during their lives, and yet most people don't use as much as they've paid for insurance until the last six months of their lives. The odds are good that, assuming he recovers and has gained some common sense, he will now contribute back his own costs and more over his life, until near the end.
Of course th
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Yep and those end-of-life costs which are the highest is exactly where the government is now asking doctors to help them drop the costs. They want doctors to talk with patients every year about end-of-life management in health care. The government is pushing doctors to help them lower costs by watching the level and amount of services offered at this most expensive health care moment. This is a very bad thing. They are putting doctors in a bad spot where they have to do what is best for their patient and at
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Yes, that's how all types of insurance work. The point the parent was making was that if this guy does not have insurance, then the hospital has to treat him and, since he's uninsured, the taxpapers foot the bill for 100% of his hospital costs. Under Obamacare he'd be required to purchase his own insurance thereby spari
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If all the healthy people have insurance, they the insurance pool gets larger. This spreads the risk, and can make insurance cheaper. Well until the insurance execs jack up their own bonuses to even things back out. This is why a lot of people wanted government insurance. The idea was that there were no shareholders or CEOs that have to be paid if the gov was running the show. Therefore more money would go towards care, and less to lining pockets.
If it would have worked that way or not I dont know. B
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The reason aspirin pills are $10 in hospitals is because of massive inflation of prices to cover the high ratio of emergency room visits that cannot be paid for by the person in the emergency.
Single payer healthcare of course costs money. It's your choice to decide if some person in an accident needs to 1) have health insurance and 2) prove that before they are allowed to be treated. It's your choice to deny someone health care for some treatable illness that is not life threatening until it is life threate
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Actually that is not true at all. It is clear you haven't dealt much with medical billing and medical insurance on the other side of the window. The reason costs for paying by cash/no insurance are so high is not because of dead beats coming in through the ER. It is because the "original" costs are used to justify to insurance companies why hospitals and doctors should be paid more, because they are "discounting" the service to the insurance company, so they can get that insurance companies business and be
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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.
So does that mean hospital expenses will suddenly plummet as all the people who previously didn't have insurance no longer go to the emergency room for their kids' sniffles on the taxpayers' tab?
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The whole point is that people won't go to the ER for non-emergencies, they will go to a normal doctor for a normal non-emergency visit. THAT COSTS LESS.
Now please tell me, why did you jump into discussion about things, you know abolutely nothing about? What did you do significant in your life other than opening your mouth and vomiting a piece of Social Conservative bullshit? How many years of your work would compensate the damage to society that you have caused by participating in their propaganda campaig
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Negotiated rates with insurance companies is why cash patients get screwed and the hospitals know this and don't care. This is why when people quote the costs of uninsured ER visits the numbers are hugely inflated compared to what hospitals are paid by insurance companies. So this idea that hospital are losing massive amount of money to the uninsured is complete crap. It's a myth and if you look at public hospital balance sheet you will see this. If you know someone on the board of a private hospital who ca
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Here's a clue: when people have insurance, they're more likely to go to the hospital for trivial problems, so more people with insurance means more expenses for insurance to pay
More like people who have insurance are more likely to go to their family practitioner. People who don't have insurance are more likely to go to the hospital emergency room because the hospitals are prohibited from turning anyone away for anything.
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Actually that isn't true. You need to reread the law on this. Hospitals can't turn you away if it *LIFE THREATENING*. If you come in with a cold they can turn you away if they want if you don't have insurance. Most private hospitals won't do that because of the possible negative PR, but legally they can. Private hospitals can also stabilize you and transfer you to public hospitals as well if you don't have insurance.
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More like people who have insurance are more likely to go to their family practitioner. People who don't have insurance are more likely to go to the hospital emergency room because the hospitals are prohibited from turning anyone away for anything.
That's not actually quite true. The EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act) mandates that any patient presenting to an ER that receives Medicare reimbursement must be evaluated, and receive any treatment necessary to stabilize them sufficiently that they are no longer in danger of losing life or limb (roughly, the actual language is denser, but that give you an idea.)
There are a few other laws which chime in about making ERs see patients, but EMTALA is the big one. What this means, then is tha
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And thanks to the new Obamacare we all get forced to pay for the healthcare of idiots like this.
You should probably learn how health care works in the US before further embarrassing yourself on this subject.
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"how health care works in the US"
The first thing to remember is that it doesn't. From there, it's pretty much a study of how badly we're getting fucked from all angles.
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You were already paying for "them." That's how insurance works: balancing the people who won't need payouts against those who will.
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Actually the public doesn't pay for people with no insurance when they go to the ER typically. The reason is most hospitals are private hospitals, so the tax payer never gets involved when the private hospital can't collect a debt. You might want to read up on how private medicine works in this country, since most of it is private medicine, rather than public government hospitals and doctors.
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Fortunately, other countries with universal healthcare have lower insurance costs. It also means that when you get run over by an uninsured driver you're not totally fuckied.
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And thanks to the new Obamacare we all get forced to pay for the healthcare of idiots like this.
Out of curiosity, have you never done something stupid in your life that should have earned you a maiming, but got lucky?
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Really? You think this assclown deserves sympathy? He's lucky only he got hit, I can see several drivers freaking out and swerving, slamming in to other cars and causing a much larger accident. He better be jailed for this crap, and pay his own damned hospital bills. Insurance premiums for all of us shouldn't have actuarial tables that account for intentional acts of stupid.
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They can put him on the fifth floor, orthopaedic and psychiatric, or nuts and screws.
If he gets better and starts walking around, then they can ask him which he is.
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arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh really? You have no sympathy for another human being whatsoever? I'd rather be missing intelligence than missing empathy and basic human kindness
i have compassion for a human being who is an innocent victim of someone else's wrong-doing and suffers through no fault of his or her own.
when it comes to people like this guy, i have compassion for the poor SUV driver and the trauma that person had to endure. i have compassion for the human race when i see there are too many people like him who drive, vote, believe propaganda, call tech support lines and otherwise inflict their idiocy on others.
mother nature only ever came up with one cure for stup
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arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh
Won't somebody please think of the idiots!!!???
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Anything can be the inspiration for stupidity (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Maybe when this is all over, we can achieve our ultimate goal of putting a warning label on Tetris.
Would it be Warning: May cause craving for controlled drugs [youtube.com]?
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I know I know.
But, the guy was twenty three, so unless you put a requirement on the game that the person buying it requires common sense, I think it wouldn't help.
Of course if we put those warnings on the games most of the lawyers wouldn't be allowed to buy them either.
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Sort of like this [penny-arcade.com]?
My girlfriend agrees (Score:2)
I strung a hammock between two chimneys and one of the chimneys collapsed on top of her.
George Costanza? (Score:2)
Was it him? He was the best player and tried to move the arcade cabinet across the street a while ago. Here is the video clip on YouTube [youtube.com]. :)
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You have the wrong clip, there, mate. What you're actually looking for is this [youtube.com].
Sorry... (Score:4, Insightful)
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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I expect the most relevant age category for him is "old enough to buy alcohol".
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We can only hope that he is sold for parts before he comes up with any other brilliant plans.
I would say that there is much more chance that his next brilliant plan will be the reason he is sold for his parts.
See what I did there?
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Actually, I'd say that it IS proof of his manhood; after all, do you ever hear of women doing these stupid stunts?
Re:Sorry... (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Classic (Score:2)
Darwin Award nominee (Score:4, Informative)
This nutjob is apparently already in the running for a Darwin Award...
http://www.darwinawards.com/slush/new/pending20101229-052307.html [darwinawards.com]
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This nutjob is apparently already in the running for a Darwin Award...
But as he is still alive, it did not kill him, thus, he won't be eligible for a darwin award unless he was injured so badly he cannot reproduce, or he winds up dying.
At best he might get an honorable mention.
Yipe (Score:2)
Don't leave him alone in a pharmacy!
He deserves an award (Score:2)
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You might want to check their slush pile:
http://www.darwinawards.com/slush/new/pending20101229-052307.html [darwinawards.com]
David Crane came up with freeway during the SCES (Score:2)
David Crane came up with the game (freeway) during the SCES in Chicago, when he observed someone attempting to cross Lake Shore Drive on foot
It was funny when George did this on seinfeld (Score:3)
It was funny when George did this on seinfeld
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You know the saying (Score:3)
If you die in real life, you die in the game.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olm7xC-gBMY&t=2m5s [youtube.com]
Real-Life Doom Ends In Cemetery Visit (Score:5, Funny)
Good thing he stuck with Frogger!
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You mean like this? The natural progression of games [youtube.com]
Afraid of the religious right (Score:2)
Pac-Man (Score:4, Funny)
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!
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Reminds me of this Live action Pac-Man stunt. [youtube.com]
Survivor: Frogger (NY Manhattan Edition) (Score:2)
The only reason Frogger works (Score:2)
Evolution in action! (Score:4, Insightful)
Frogger? (Score:2)
It seems to me that the journalist said he was playing "frogger", not the man/youth himself; i.e. he wasn't playing "real life frogger" he was just being an idiot.
What if he'd been playing Tempest? (Score:2)
ban classics? (Score:2)
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Mario breaks bricks with his fist.
Exactly. Mario has put his fist up when jumping [halftimegames.com] ever since Super Mario Bros, and he continues to do so [creativeuncut.com].
Re:What a ridiculous summary. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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