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Man Dies After Parachuting From Arizona Cell Phone TowerSaturday, December 05, 2009 * Print * ShareThisCASA GRANDE, Arizona — Authorities say a man died after parachuting from a cell phone tower at night and hitting high-voltage power lines.Pinal County sheriff's Lt. Tamatha Villar says 23-year-old Darrell Dunafon and two friends broke into a cell tower site about 30 miles south of Phoenix on Friday night and were parachuting off the approximately 400-foot-tall antennae.Dunafon's parachute tangled in nearby 12,000-volt power lines and he was shocked with a live wire.Villar says the two friends called for help, and rescue crews turned off the power and cut Dunafon down. He had a slight pulse but was pronounced dead at a hospital in the nearby town of Casa Grande.

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We recently had a 16 year old kid here climb a power pole to "supposedly" get a picture of something. He got up to the top and got zapped. Then he fell 30' to the ground. He ended up paralyzed from the chest down, he lost a hand from where the electricity zapped a bracelet he was wearing and it burned through his wrist bone or something like that.The kid is still in the hospital and will never be the same. What a waste.

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We recently had a 16 year old kid here climb a power pole to "supposedly" get a picture of something. He got up to the top and got zapped. Then he fell 30' to the ground. He ended up paralyzed from the chest down' date=' he lost a hand from where the electricity zapped a bracelet he was wearing and it burned through his wrist bone or something like that.The kid is still in the hospital and will never be the same. What a waste.[/quote']This is where I ask myself.... And the parents, Where were they?
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This is where I ask myself.... And the parents' date=' Where were they?[/quote']Right now, they are at the hospital every day and will now have to take care of this kid for life.
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Man Dies After Parachuting From Arizona Cell Phone TowerSaturday' date=' December 05, 2009 * Print * ShareThisCASA GRANDE, Arizona — Authorities say a man died after parachuting from a cell phone tower at night and hitting high-voltage power lines.Pinal County sheriff's Lt. Tamatha Villar says 23-year-old Darrell Dunafon and two friends broke into a cell tower site about 30 miles south of Phoenix on Friday night and were parachuting off the approximately 400-foot-tall antennae.Dunafon's parachute tangled in nearby 12,000-volt power lines and he was shocked with a live wire.Villar says the two friends called for help, and rescue crews turned off the power and cut Dunafon down. He had a slight pulse but was pronounced dead at a hospital in the nearby town of Casa Grande.[/quote']definitely not a funny way to die...RIP Darrell Dunafon
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You can´t always have a look at your children. If they want to do something silly, they find a way to fiddle their partens out.

This is where I ask myself.... And the parents' date=' Where were they?[/quote']
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