A 6-year-old boy in Florida was left severely injured at a theme park after apparently falling from a ride that was nearly two dozen feet above where he was found, authorities said.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    nearly two dozen feet

    Aye, the lad be very damn lucky he fell mark twain 'thout dyin!

    That’s almost 8 yards, he didn’t get a first down.

    Not trying to lessen the tragedy, but we gotta get better with measurements, this is ridiculous.

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      Yards are too similar to meters, us commie Europeans would actually know how much that is. Can’t have that.

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        If only they had made yards and meters equal then we could talk to each other in our preferred units. I’m perfectly happy to concede to a bigger yard.