Potential Darwin Award Winners: The situation (last weekend): Asilomar (Pacific Grove, between Monterey and Carmel California) Biggest waves in two years All parking areas closed by...

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

The situation (last weekend):

Asilomar (Pacific Grove, between Monterey and Carmel California)
Biggest waves in two years
All parking areas closed by California State Park Rangers
Warning signs posted everywhere
Backs turned on an angry ocean
Got to get the selfie

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BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Well, you know it, I know it and God knows the first responders know it, “Ya can’t fix stupid”.
I live in Michigan and every year it seems someone is swept off a break wall in obviously bad weather to their death.

Edit: Some of these souls are from places without big water and don’t really know what danger is there. Sadly unaware of the consequences.

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

Every year there are many of these jerks lost to those sneaky GIANT waves that just wait for these fools to show-up. Those waves crashing along that stretch of beach road are spectacular and dangerous on normal days much less at times like this - I'll sit inside the restaurant at Lovers Point on day like this.

DJphoto wrote:

The situation (last weekend):

Asilomar (Pacific Grove, between Monterey and Carmel California)
Biggest waves in two years
All parking areas closed by California State Park Rangers
Warning signs posted everywhere
Backs turned on an angry ocean
Got to get the selfie

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

BassmanBruce wrote:

Well, you know it, I know it and God knows the first responders know it, “Ya can’t fix stupid”.
I live in Michigan and every year it seems someone is swept off a break wall in obviously bad weather to their death.

Edit: Some of these souls are from places without big water and don’t really know what danger is there. Sadly unaware of the consequences.

There were many warning signs and the parking areas were chained off so you could only park on the side of the road. The high waves were being reported widely on the news and the danger would have been apparent to the minimally observant.

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

Harvey wrote:

Every year there are many of these jerks lost to those sneaky GIANT waves that just wait for these fools to show-up. Those waves crashing along that stretch of beach road are spectacular and dangerous on normal days much less at times like this - I'll sit inside the restaurant at Lovers Point on day like this.

It was so rough that it would only take a large regular wave to have swept them away. It is common to see people climbing out on the rocks. However, with the waves last weekend, it was just stupid. We get to Pacific Grove many time a year and have been doing so for many years but have never been in the restaurant (now the Beach House). We're fortunate to live a little over two hours away.

Ollieboy

ALL of life's survivability comes down to one concept. Situational Awareness. Without it your fair game.

DAN Phillips Loc: Graysville, GA

Forest Gump summed it up, stupid is as stupid does!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Funny

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

Gasman57 wrote:

ALL of life's survivability comes down to one concept. Situational Awareness. Without it your fair game.

Situational awareness.....................and common sense (which seems to be less common now).

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

DAN Phillips wrote:

Forest Gump summed it up, stupid is as stupid does!

He had it right.

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

jerryc41 wrote:

Funny

I thought so too. Thanks for commenting.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

DJphoto wrote:

The situation (last weekend):

Asilomar (Pacific Grove, between Monterey and Carmel California)
Biggest waves in two years
All parking areas closed by California State Park Rangers
Warning signs posted everywhere
Backs turned on an angry ocean
Got to get the selfie

So, what happened??? Anything? Who took that picture??

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

traderjohn wrote:

So, what happened??? Anything? Who took that picture??

I took the photo of them taking the selfie. They were lucky and made it back safely, which is why I used the word "potential" in the subject.

CaptainBobBrown

Here in Hawaii we usually think it's the tourists who ignore the danger signs about sharks, waves, long shore currents, and treacherous cliff trails but locals do to because they figure they know the dangers so they tend to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. A couple of years ago I was rebreather diving off a nearby beach/reef ledge and was followed by a largish requiem shark into the shallow water at the beach exit. I saw a local woman taking her small child into the same shallows (as they often do here to teach them at an early age how to deal with the ocean) so I warned her that there was a shark nearby looking for turtles. She smiled, shrugged, and continued to play with her child in the shallows. A few days later I saw an item in the local paper about a child and mother attacked at an undisclosed location by a shark. Don't know if it was the same place or not but it could well have been. Complacency from familiarity is as dangerous as ignorance of unfamiliar threats.

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

You are correct, you cannot legislate against stupidity either. I guess that it is too much to ask people to think a little bit.