Difficult to categorize this as a prank.

It seems like every couple of years there's a case of kids throwing or dropping stuff off of bridges resulting in injuries or crashes. I remember this happening as far back as when I was a kid.

I don't understand the appeal of dropping stuff from bridges. It's not really a prank. It's a carelessly dangerous action that really can't result in anything positive. Manslaughter or murder sounds about right.

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In the fall, we had 5 teenagers that dropped a rock onto the expressway and killed a guy. The guy killed was on his way home after work and had a young child.

https://www.detroitnews.com/...ocks-town/107285482/

I just don't understand the mindset of the teenagers.

Yes, I also recall this happening occasionally for as far back as I can remember. When I was in elementary school, my friends and I used to throw snowballs from an elevated position at city buses going up a small hill, to get a reaction from passengers sitting at the windows where the snowballs would hit. We weren't teens, it was 'just' snowballs, and the buses were never going more than 10 mph or so on that stretch of road - and even on those facts I look back at it and think, 'man, we were little shits and we're lucky a driver didn't get so startled he jumped the curb or something.' But teens pitching heavy rocks onto cars doing highway speeds, that's another level of stupidity and danger.

There is a reason almost every overpass has fences to the sky on them. And it isn't because drivers were throwing their McD's cups out the window. 3.4 million google hits for 'rock thrown off overpass'.

I did a lot of ridiculously stupid shit when I was younger, this never occurred to me. I could possibly understand an egg or maybe a golf ball sounding like something funny to do. Big ass rocks don't compute.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

A year or two ago a friend was commuting home by bike one evening, and went underneath a pedestrian overpass. Two teenage girls through a 32 ounce Gatorade off of it and hit him on the back/shoulder.

I don’t understand that level of complete idiocy.

I don't think most people, particularly young people realize the sort of damage that can occur from this sort of stuff.

I had a guy throw a handful of coins into my face when I was out riding and he was going by me the other way. One caught me on the side of the nose and split it open. Glad I had sunglasses on because some dinged off of them.

I want to know where people like that have their stash of stuff ready to throw at you. Do they just drive around waiting to see someone on the road to throw their gatorade, coins, orange, gravel, big gulp(s), full can of pop from someone going 60+ the other way.(last four all things I have had thrown at me over the years). I've never been hit luckily, but some of those items are heavy and solid.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

I remember this story about a kid who was swinging a cinderblock tied to a rope off an overpass with the other end wrapped around his wrist. Tragically, the rope got snagged on a semi-truck and ripped off his entire limb at the shoulder. The cops arrested the truck driver, charged with armed robbery...



...I'll leave the thread now.

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I'll add the partially full/empty can/bottle of beer. The spinning/tumbling action causes any remaining beer to be ejected, so something hits me in the face even when the can/bottle misses me. (At least I hope it was beer?)

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