14 year old crashes car

[Guest Smues]

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14-year-old electrocuted after crashing car

May 2, 2005 (Lake Villa, Ill.) — Authorities in Lake County say a 14-year-old Lake Villa boy died from electrocution over the weekend after crashing a car, being ejected from it and hitting power lines nearly 50 feet above the ground.

Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said Carl Schultz Junior had borrowed a relatives car for a late-night ride. He apparently lost control of the vehicle near an intersection early Saturday morning.

 

Authorities say Schultz was ejected through the cars sun roof, flew into the air and hit the set of power lines.

 

Schultz, who was the only one in the car during the crash, was not wearing a seat belt. No other vehicles were involved.

 

(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

 

Umm, OW? If you needed a reason to wear your seatbelt, there you go.

[The Czech Republic]

Going out in style.

[Guest Vitamin X]

LOL

[Ced]

Launched through the sun roof and hitting power lines 50 feet above the ground? Did the cars have a rocket-propelled ejection seat?

[The Czech Republic]

Lot of weird ass shit goin' down in my neck of the woods. Kid up in Lake Villa flies through a sunroof and electrocutes himself on a power line 50 feet above ground, the feds are in Chicago raiding City Hall, mom in Hoffman Estates stabs her children to death 200 times to prevent them from being molested. No slow news days here no sir.

[Team Angle Pusher]

Didn't he already break his frigging neck from going THROUGH the f'n roof?

[Guest Smues]

Didn't he already break his frigging neck from going THROUGH the f'n roof?

I'm sure he probably did, but when I think of this I think of the sunroof being open and him flying through it perfectly without touching the roof. I'm sure it didn't actually happen that cleanly, but it makes for a fun visual, especially with some circus music in the background.

[ragingfear79]

when you gotta go you gotta go

[Ripper]

Who lets a 14 year old borrow a car for a late night ride?

[2GOLD]

Who lets a 14 year old borrow a car for a late night ride?

 

Who lets a 14 yr old borrow their car period?

I think in this case, they are are saying borrowed since he's dead. Had he lived, he stole it.

 

God, I know it's wrong to laugh at this...but I can't stop laughing at this. I mean, what did he hit to fling him through the sun roof like a dart into power lines?

[The Amazing Rando]

Wile E Coyote put one of those spring traps under the concrete. He saw a blue Ford Festiva going down the road, thought it was his catch, and SPROOOOOIIIINGGGGG, no more Junior.

[CanadianChris]

Something doesn't add up. How could he get electrocuted if he was flying through the air? Don't you need to be grounded to get electrocuted by a power line?

[Guest Smues]

I don't know exactly how it works, but wouldn't touching multiple power lines at once do it?

[Ripper]

Not at all.

[Vern Gagne]

It sounds like the ending of a bad action movie.

[Jingus]

It does have a kinda Con Air vibe, don't it?

[King Cucaracha]

I guess he landed on/got tangled up in the wires? I dunno, seems a pretty implausible thing to happen.

[Crimson Platypus]

Probably hit a transformer drum, that would do it for sure.

[Ted the Poster]

It does have a kinda Con Air vibe, don't it?

Quiet you. Con Air is awesome.

[MDH257]

I thought it sounded like one of those stories from the beginging of Magnolia.

[The Amazing Rando]

Just nothing but loud static and shattered dreams all over the pavement as a rim wobbles by and falls over in the median.

[Ted the Poster]

Then it falls and makes that "wum-wum-wu-wu-wu-wu-wu-wu-wu" sound before stopping in a mix of blood and glass.