{"id":4830,"date":"2014-04-10T20:33:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T01:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2014-04-10T20:33:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T01:33:57","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-april-10-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4830","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for April 10, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Tumbling Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;posing&#8221; tragedy occurred on August 19, 1999, at Moran Point on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. \u00a0Gabriel Comerford, age 25, asked nearby tourists if they would use his camera to take his photo. \u00a0These bystanders agreed. \u00a0Comerford explained that he wanted to pose out on a precipice where the shot would be dramatic. \u00a0The bystanders nodded in understanding. \u00a0Comerford then crossed the guard rail, climbed over a retaining wall, and walked out to his chosen, highly exposed position.<\/p>\n<p>Just before arriving at his chosen spot a rock crumbled under his foot. \u00a0Comerford slipped off the level Kaibab Limestone and tumbled down a rubble-strewn, bush-clumped talus chute for more than a hundred feet. \u00a0Meanwhile the bystander with Comerford&#8217;s camera continued to photograph him during his battering tumble. \u00a0The bystander snapped the final photo as Comerford slid off the edge at the end of the chute and into vertical air. \u00a0Comerford next fell 875 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/097009731x\/theasylumeclecti\">Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a considerate camera person! \u00a0Most people might have lost concentration in such a dramatic situation, but not that person! \u00a0Now I really want to see the photos, dammit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Tumbling Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A &#8220;posing&#8221; tragedy occurred on August 19, 1999, at Moran Point on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. \u00a0Gabriel Comerford, age 25, asked nearby tourists if they would use his camera to take his photo. \u00a0These bystanders agreed. \u00a0Comerford explained that he wanted to pose out on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}