All day, CNN has been featuring a video clip of a man who strapped himself into kite surfing apparatus on some Florida beach during tropical storm Faye. One 60 mph gust came along, picked him up, slammed him into the beach a couple of times, picked him up again, carried him across an adjacent parking lot, and slammed him into a wall. I can’t imagine WHAT this guy was thinking. What would possess someone to strap themselves into a kite during a tropical storm? Maybe it’s the ultimate adrenaline rush. Just seems pretty senseless to me. Originally CNN had made the video available for embedding into posts, but it is apparently no longer available, so I can no longer show it here. Friends say the guy is expected to make a full recovery. I hope so. But I’ll bet his kite surfing days are at an end.
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