OT: Former NFL and VaTech Safety Keion Carpenter dies in freak accident
The details of the incident are stunning: while on vacation, he was racing his young son to the car (who among us with kids hasn't done that?) when he tripped, fell, and hit his head. He slipped into a coma and died. After growing up in inner-city Baltimore and then playing the most physically punishing team sport at the highest levels of competition for 11 years of his life, that was how he met his maker. Heartbreaking.
Upon retiring from the NFL, he apparently founded a non-profit organization that helped under-privileged families find stable housing. Tragic loss. RIP.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:18 PM ^
My prediction: people will also die in 2017.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:24 PM ^
That has nothing to do with anything in the OP.
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December 29th, 2016 at 7:08 PM ^
Well , I mean, apart from the death bit.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:25 PM ^
My prediction: you will also get negged in 2017.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:38 PM ^
2016 too!
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December 29th, 2016 at 5:30 PM ^
Yep. I actually went through the trouble of logging into the site on the browser of my phone to neg him. That's saying a lot.
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December 29th, 2016 at 5:59 PM ^
I almost never neg anybody. I made an exception in this case.
December 29th, 2016 at 6:02 PM ^
You're an asshole in real life too.. And I predict that will also be true in 2017.
December 29th, 2016 at 6:07 PM ^
^^^^^^
December 29th, 2016 at 6:07 PM ^
Quality contribution.
December 29th, 2016 at 6:56 PM ^
douchecanoe
December 29th, 2016 at 6:59 PM ^
"People die everyday." ~ Orenthal James Simpson
December 29th, 2016 at 8:16 PM ^
Quick action does not always serve me well. Excuse me; I'll see myself out...
December 29th, 2016 at 11:12 PM ^
Big of you to acknowledge.
Peace.
December 29th, 2016 at 10:38 PM ^
logged in just to neg you and call you a dick, dick.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:23 PM ^
Is this where we say "fuck 2016"? Looking forward to 2017 because people won't die.
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December 29th, 2016 at 5:29 PM ^
Edgy comment.
So edgy. Much edge. The edgiest. You so cool.
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December 29th, 2016 at 4:25 PM ^
Wow. That is terribly unlucky. I bet things like this happen every day though. Like maybe someone has died from bumping their head while getting into a car.
December 29th, 2016 at 5:05 PM ^
unfortunately they do. sad stuff. looks like the dude did his best to make the most of his time but still sucks
December 29th, 2016 at 9:55 PM ^
but I believe Benazir Bhutto, who was shot during her assassination attempt, actually died because her security tried to force her into the motorcade vehicle so quickly that she hit her head on the way in. Died from blunt force trauma.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:28 PM ^
2016'd
December 29th, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^
Makes me sick to my stomach. So sad.
Life is fragile.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:34 PM ^
Poor kid. What a hell of a thing to see.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:34 PM ^
sadly I've known two people in the last 5 years that have died from relatively "soft" bumps to the head.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:40 PM ^
when I feel like someone should start a trend of everyone wearing a helmet (at least a bike helmet) at all times. Ugh.
Next on the list, full body armor anytime I step outside my house. But I'd need more than one color to keep it fresh. And I'd probably keep getting arrested for looking like i was up to something.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:40 PM ^
Leaves behind 4 kids. Sad.
December 29th, 2016 at 4:43 PM ^
Feel so bad for those kids.
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December 29th, 2016 at 4:48 PM ^
Prayers
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December 29th, 2016 at 4:58 PM ^
These stories never surprise me because, as a cop, I've seen first hand that life and death can be very arbitrary. The experience has taught to me the great lesson of appreciating each day.
December 29th, 2016 at 5:14 PM ^
I remember when I was a kid, my dad was a chaperone on a field trip for my little brother. after the first trip, they had time on the playground and my dad was just playing tag with the kids.
one wrong step, he fell and broke his leg. I always thought that was a freak accident, one we could tease him about for years. but, I cannot imagine the horror if he had died from that fall.
prayers for his children, that's rough.
December 29th, 2016 at 5:16 PM ^
Just brutal
December 29th, 2016 at 6:27 PM ^
That's terrible. Jeez.
December 29th, 2016 at 6:41 PM ^
Thoughts out to his friends and family.
December 29th, 2016 at 6:46 PM ^
My thoughts and prayers are with the family.
December 29th, 2016 at 7:21 PM ^
just awful. heart breaks for his family
December 29th, 2016 at 8:00 PM ^
It sounds as though he made significant contributions to the world after football. What a terrible loss! This bothers me more than the loss of drug addicted or alcoholic celebs who are celebrated in the media throughout the year.
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December 29th, 2016 at 9:19 PM ^
Another freak accident that I saw was Anton Yelchin, a 27 yr old actor (played Chekhov in the recent Star Trek movies, was killed in his driveway. He stepped out of his car and it somehow moved and pinned him against a pillar. WTF?
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December 30th, 2016 at 11:08 AM ^
In that specific case, I believe he was driving a car that was under recall because people kept getting confused if it was in Park or not because it had a really funky gear shifter. So there is a lot of speculation that he got out of the car when it wasn't in Park, thinking that it was. Which, when you are on a hill, is obviously not a good idea.
So the car probably did NOT roll while in Park. He probably accidently didn't put it in Park because of the car's funky setup.
http://jalopnik.com/anton-yelchins-jeep-was-included-in-rollaway-recall…
December 30th, 2016 at 4:38 AM ^
A guy I worked with had a friend who was walking along a wooded path in the city with his wife, when a tree fell and took him out. Think about those odds. I find it easier to believe that that's not simply a freak, random event.