Two people were injured at Citizens Bank Park — that's the baseball field in Philly — when a food service worker drove a golf cart into an elevator shaft.
[T]he driver had been intentionally riding the cart into the freight elevator door while waiting for it to open. When it did, his coworker said, the driver couldn’t brake in time, and the cart fell an estimated 30 feet onto the elevator below.
Uhhhh… that doesn't even begin to draw the picture for me. I still have no idea what happened. Why didn't the coworker just say, "It was like that scene in Die Hard 4… except it was a golf cart and not an SUV. And there was no explosion. And no Asian chicks died." (Spoiler alert! -Ed.) Either that or, "He was being a jackass." That's just as descriptive. Funnier, too.
Of course, this is only slightly less bizarre than centerfielder Aaron Rowand's injury from a game of tag with neighborhood kids. He's listed as day-to-day and is a late scratch for today's game of duck-duck-goose at Timmy's house.
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The same guy who ran into a wall full-speed last year and fought back from a gruesome injury now handcuffed by a game of tag?
How the mighty have fallen!
That article doesn't say whether Rowand was "it" or not.
"injury from a game of tag with neighborhood kids"?
Is that what we're calling that these days? I hear inmates who like to "play tag with kids" have a pretty rough time in prison.
Rowand probably ran smack into the fence in the backyard. The guy goes all out.
For the record, I enjoy "playing tag" with small women from Thailand and the rest of the Asian theater. But I don't play "tag backs" until I've seen some clean medical records.
He's listed as day-to-day and is a late scratch for today's game of duck-duck-goose at Timmy's house.
Brilliance.
I lost a friend to a severe clothesline injury during an intense game of "Red-Rover, Red Rover". We simply should NOT have sent him over.
I'm intrigued by this duck-duck-goose game; do you need the aforementioned water fowl to play or can you substitute other birds? I've got one duck (who hasn't?) a buzzard and a clockwork owl. Will that do?
Didnt the guy driving the golf cart fall onto an elevator shaft…..which was carrying his brother? I thought I read that somewhere else (cough–Deadspin–cough).
This was clearly stolen from LA Law where the giantess (aka the doctor who had the hots for Picard) steps into an open shaft.
Um…shouldn't a spoiler warning go before the spoiler? <i>Die Hardererer</i> is RUINED FOR ME!
I thought I read that somewhere else (cough–Deadspin–cough)
Yeah, it's almost like I write some of these posts in advance without checking other blogs. Way to be observant, though.
Yeah, it's almost like I write some of these posts in advance without checking other blogs. Way to be observant, though.
Not trying to bust balls, Matt; just seems that the fact that he fell on top of his brother is kind of a major part of the story.
Was Rowand playing freeze tag? Because I can understand getting hurt playing that.
Soo… his original plan was to drive the cart directly into the elevator doors?
See, what people are failing to realize here is that this is actually a legal maneuver in an exciting new sport: Supergolf. It's like Ultimate Frizbee, except instead of being gay, you defy death in golf carts, joust one another with drivers, ricochet balls off of walls and ceilings (it's played indoors, you see) and generally act like a cock.
I submit to you that if a human being drives a golf cart into an elevator shaft, Natural Selection has spoken.