Consider this report from MSNBC:
A Michigan man who bowled his first perfect game immediately collapsed in the bowling alley and died.
Life is so damned fickle
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:October 31, 2008
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Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
I don't get it. What's to consider?
It is a regular occurrence for a man prone to heart failure to expire at moments of great emotional elation and moderate physical exertion. Consider this old chestnut:
Also fickle: that this is "news". Why, by local news standards, this is a crucial, exclusive breakthrough!
I favor giving the "Fickle Finger of Fate" award to the Aussie a few years age who won a new car in the Austrailian lottery, then re-enacting the event for a local tv crew, won won a large sum of money with the cratch-off tick he bought so the news team could show hime scratching off the ticket.