After-hours visit to Calgary bobsled track leads to 2 deaths - teen twins

[Liberal_in_LA]

After-hours visit to Calgary bobsled track leads to 2 deaths
Police say two young men died and six others were injured after using their personal sled/toboggan to go down a luge-bobsled track after hours at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.

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Calgary police said Saturday that emergency crews received a call from an employee at the WinSport Canada facility in northwest Calgary at 1:30 a.m. after a report of several injured people on a closed track.

Insp. Kelly Campbell says that part way down the track the male teenagers hit a large gate that's used to separate the luge and bobsled tracks.

Police are investigating how they entered the property.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/02/06/after-hours-visit-to-calgary-bobsled-track-leads-to-2-deaths.html

[Hortensis]

1. Poor kids, poor families.

[Skittles]

2. very tragic

“I think we’ve all been young and made decisions that we probably would take back if we were doing them today."

he is so correct

[CentralMass]

3. :-(

[underahedgerow]

4. Darwin.

Happens too often.

[JI7]

5. how is this Darwin ?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. The dead teens' genes will not propagate, ...

... so they are not "the fittest".

They eliminated themselves from the gene pool.

[Snobblevitch]

8. How compassionite of you.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Just an explanation of "Darwin Award"

But you're right, it's not a good thing.

[Snobblevitch]

19. I was referring to post number four.

It was crass for you to post that.

Why did you feel the need to do such a thing?

[2naSalit]

7. That track

has some bad juju to it. There was at least one horrible fatality during the games... it was barely safe enough for the games and many complaints were lodged about it being too fast.

Sad this.

[laundry_queen]

11. That was Vancouver

This is the Calgary Olympic park from the '88 winter Olympics.

Sadly, this was a really bad decision made by a bunch of teenagers that turned tragic because they didn't know there was a concrete gate halfway down where the track merges. According to some news stories, this is not the first time some teens have done this and ended up in hospital, but it's the first time there have been fatalities. I think the company running the site might need to be concerned about their security (although apparently some teens worked there so may have known how to get around security).

[2naSalit]

18. Oops, pardon the error...

Yeah, come to think of it, duh, Calgary is pretty far from Vancouver!

I read that they encountered an obstruction partway down. It's just tragic and sad.

I guess that if some of them work there they very likely have a way to get in and past any security barriers.

[Marrah_G]

10. I feel badly for their families and friends

Sometimes I think luck has a lot to do with surviving the teen years!

[laundry_queen]

12. I know right?

I did some really dumb things as a teen and so many times could've ended up dead. Now as the parent of teenagers...well this story just breaks my heart. That poor family. *sigh* I try to explain to my teens how these decisions are important but even still, they make dumb decisions too...ones I usually only hear about later on. ugh. So far nothing as terrible as what I did, but it only takes one time.

[Electric Monk]

13. It wasn't a "visit", it was a break and enter. They were committing a crime when they died. nt

[laundry_queen]

14. So they deserved it?

Or it's not as tragic? It seems that's what you are implying.

According to the news here, breaking into the facility and doing stupid shit was something of a 'rite of passage' for employees, and that some of the teens were employees. No, it's not 'right' but they don't deserve to die, nor does it make their death less tragic. That's a right wing POV.

[Electric Monk]

15. They voluntarily put their own lives at risk, and paid the ultimate price. I find it hard

to feel too sorry for them, any more than if someone was street racing and crashed, or skiing out of bounds and fell off a cliff. They chose to put themselves in danger.

[laundry_queen]

17. Compassion just oozes out of your every pore.

I hope you don't have kids.

[LisaL]

16. They are dead because of their own actions.

So the question of whether they deserved it or not seems pointless. No one else did it to them.

[bullwinkle428]

20. I've gone down that track - in an "authorized" fashion, in a bobsled

as a tourist. You move rather slowly out of the gate, but it's frightening how quickly you pick up speed through the first few turns. One of the most thrilling experiences I've ever had! I can't imagine what the impact was like in this situation. Condolences to family and friends.