If you lose your keys in a lake: forget it, they're gone

[Loonman]

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/8806827.htm

The Missouri Water Patrol gave the following account: The man, 54, used a garden hose as a breathing tube and jumped into the lake with a rope and a 20-pound anchor tied to his waist.

[Wickerman]

1. Wow, a 54 year old Darwin award nominee

how unfortunate.

[zbdent]

2. Do you get the award humously?

In other words, if you lived?

Do the rules allow a living inductee?

[Momgonepostal]

4. It's happened

Remember the guy who made his own hot air balloon and sailed into the flight path of LAX? He lived.

[zbdent]

6. Gotcha.

Thanks.

[Bozita]

7. This guy is definitely a finalist

His actions speak volumes.

[TXlib]

3. I used to live in Blue Springs, right next to Lee's Summit.

[Angelus]

5. I learned that the hard way.

Ice fishing.

Need I say more?

[cheezus]

8. I hate it when stuff falls in the lake

My Uncle had just gotten married, and lost a bit of weight after the wedding. He went fishing with his new wife, bent over to net the fish and his wedding ring slipped off his finger and into the lake, never to be seen again.

[arwalden]

9. If The Garden Hose Is Too Long Then You're Only Rebreathing Stale Air

If you only exhale enough to displace the fresh air in the garden hose, then the hose is "filled" with your used air... which you RE-breathe.

This would only work if the volume of air held in the hose was LESS than the actual volume of air his lungs would hold (OR if there was a forced-air pump continually blowing fresh air into the hose.)

In any case... he's an idiot.

-- Allen

[HEyHEY]

10. That's if the air in the hose could even be breathed easily

Wouldn't the pressure make it too hard to suck air down that hose?

[arwalden]

11. I'm Just Theorizing... It Sounds Like You're Speaking From Experience...

maybe?

Don't tell me! NO! You DIDN'T! Did you? :hi:

-- Allen

[Ediacara]

12. That would happen

But you'd need to get pretty deep, at least 20 feet or so to even start feeling that. Remember people can scuba dive far deeper (but not without potential problems, and somehow I doubt this yahoo was diving more than 10 feet using a garden hose as a snorkel.