Darwin strikes again

[Scsmith42]

Sheesh....

Colorado family members die trying to live 'off the grid'

Relatives say the group had no survival training aside from watching YouTube videos.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Chuckman]

It's really sad. Whether a dilettante or the Dunning-Kruger effect, or just stupidity, it's sad.

 

[Dale Gribble]

Nature is what it is.

It’s to be enjoyed and it can be enjoyed when out in it, but lose respect for what it is capable of and it can dole out some harsh consequences.

Hate it for them and their families.

 

[BlueGecko]

My family lives in that area and I regularly hunt there. I'm surprised they lasted that long.

 

[opaul]

Sad.

 

[GeorgeBush]

They starved I assume?

 

[Les White]

I see people overestimating their abilities all the time. More often than not they're well educated, but still not what I'd call smart. Along with their education comes a false sense of intellectual superiority. So in this case, they watched a few videos and thought "How hard can this be? If they can do it so can we.".

 

[bondjamesbond]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Nature will take her cut

 

[GymB]

Went out in the fall and decided to camp above 9500, not sure what videos they watched, but not good ones.

People often don’t notice that most folks living a subsistence lifestyle don’t live long, not even the ones doing it well. I guess they don’t have videos by the dead folks.

 

[Average Joe]

Mother Nature does not take kindly to mistakes. She is the most unforgiving thing on earth.

 

[rdinatal]

Along with their education comes a false sense of intellectual superiority.

I've observed that there is educated or smart. It's very, very rare to see both in one person.

 

[Burt Gummer]

Stupid…. It hurts, and you can’t fix it

 

[ronn47]

 

[Chuckman]

These guys had experience and ended up on the wrong side of life-death line:

Bodies of 2 Hawaii free divers, fathers of 6, recovered offshore

A medical examiner is working to determine the cause of death for two free divers who were found unresponsive off the coast of Oahu's North Shore.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Charlie]

I've observed that there is educated or smart. It's very, very rare to see both in one person.

It is not as rare as you seem to think. The smart educated people, and I have known quite a few in my life, are generally not the ones who get noticed or who want to get noticed.

 

[fishgutzy]

John Mellencamp signing in the background "I fought the law and the law won." Law of Nature wins another round.

 

[GymB]

John Mellencamp signing in the background "I fought the law and the law won." Law of Nature wins another round.

You misspelled Bobby Fuller Four.

No, they didn’t write it, they just took it to the top 10.

 

[Donnie D]

I understand that the You Tube videos they watched were of Joe Biden.

 

[georgel]

Apparently they missed the YouTube on Chris McCandless.

 

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French climber dies in suspected fall during ‘stunt’ at Hong Kong high-rise

Remi Lucidi, 30, who had a large social media following, found dead on a patio at apartment block

www.theguardian.com