Illiterate idiot.

It's past tense! ;)

There was no sarcasm or intended joke, it was a 100% genuine question. Only 2 people have answered it directly as I intended (1 in the positive, 1 in the negative). It seems not only does the internet need sarcasm tags, it needs nonsarcasm tags too.
I guess what happened is I gave a probably fabricated, socially…

I think a great soundtrack is critical to Road Rash. It's really important they nail that!

Well, the story says that they maybe drowned, but if it really did happen then yeah you might be right.

I think "the smallest bit of thought" is too much for some people unfortunately. They would rather be angry with strangers.

See, you just accidentally said "would" instead of "wouldn't" there (not a criticism), but using my amazing powers of observation and analysis I worked out what it was you were ACTUALLY saying and didn't go off on an irate verbal rampage against you, defending myself against peoples lack of reported psychic abilities.…

LoL!

While I wasn't attempting black humor at all, (I was actually asking a straight question based on this seeming very much like a hoax) I agree very much with everything you say. <3

A straight answer to a straight question! How refreshing. Thank you so much! I was expecting all the replies to be along these lines but I am clearly expecting too much of the community.
And yeah, the story makes very little sense. I don't think it even stands up to the sort of scrutiny that would be given by drunk…

Calling someone a retard is pretty politically incorrect dude. I am fine with that but if you are trying to take the moral high ground you are doing a bad job of it.

It's pretty depressing yeah. I feel like you have to super watertight any OP you make on here because people are either willfully stupid or WANT to take offence. The amount of times I have been snowed under with negative comments on a topic because I didn't add some kind of disclaimer and people have jumped to…

I was questioning whether anyone had actually died, in light of the absurd "facts" of the story.

Hah thank you for this! I have a feeling classyavenger isn't going to respond to me or anyone else anymore though, I have a feeling he is taking the stance of walking away when proven wrong rather than admitting you screwed up as he was dismissive of me pointing out his ridiculous assumptions. Morally superior types…

Good point. Where the hell would these quotes come from? In that light it sounds more like a bullshit campfire ghost story than news.

I can't man, it's an indelible mark on humanity forever now!

The internet threw them in the river. :(

I obviously never thought he was smiling or laughing, but I thought it was possible he had been asked to look sad for the sake of a government hoax, and was trying to suppress laughter because the situation was so ridiculous. Did you read the article? It's totally absurd.

Who said tragedy was funny? You need to chill out.

If the "facts" are to be believed, that may well be the case.