Poor Saint

[DarkKobold]

Saint died in a freak accident yesterday about 10pm EST. He was moving some arcade machines down some stairs with a friend when one of the machines slipped and came crashing down on Saint. He was airlifted to the hospital but died in-route.

click here www.arcadecontrols.com for more details.

I guess it happens when you try moving multiple machines at the same time... remember folks, carry only one machine at a time. It can save your life!

Oh, BTW, happy April 1st!

[patrickl]

Hmm ... isn't that a bit rude?

I can take a joke, but people dying somehow doesn't seem funny to me ...  

[Tiger-Heli]

Hmm ... isn't that a bit rude?

I can take a joke, but people dying somehow doesn't seem funny to me ...  

Follow the link - it's on the main page.  Otherwise, though, I kind of agree with you . . .

[patrickl]

The article on the main page (and in the quote) is what I was referring to.

[hulkster]

Hmm ... isn't that a bit rude?

I can take a joke, but people dying somehow doesn't seem funny to me ...  

are you kidding???  people dying is hilaaaarious.  

[flampoo]

This topic is nothing to be taken lightly. Death is as serious as a heart attack... And almost as funny.

[pocketbikez]

it was a good april fools joke but i would have said saint was in intensive care due to a tron joystick being impaled into the his ass as the arcade machine cartwheeled then crushed him.

[SirPoonga]

Hmm ... isn't that a bit rude?

I can take a joke, but people dying somehow doesn't seem funny to me ...  

Follow the link - it's on the main page.  Otherwise, though, I kind of agree with you . . .

Awe man, don't take life so seriously.  Death is good depending on what you think death is anyway.

What's funny is the method of death, not death itself.  By arcade machines, hahaha.  JM should have used a big box of projectarcade copies!

[steve_pss]

Changed to Saint get injured? What a rip off...

[Bomber]

Hmm ... isn't that a bit rude?

I can take a joke, but people dying somehow doesn't seem funny to me ...  

Surely Susan dying from licking too many cheap wedding invatations on Seinfeld made you at least grin a little.....

[SNAAAKE]

it was a good april fools joke but i would have said saint was in intensive care due to a tron joystick being impaled into the his ass as the arcade machine cartwheeled then crushed him.

Oh wow its one of those japnese "sit at" cabinets they sell on ebay

[patrickl]

Well it's in how you bring the joke. Just flatout saying someone has died is NOT funny. The original story didn't have a single funny line in it. Just that Saint died and then that it was not true.

I'm glad to see someone changed the text and I have to agree the story as it reads now IS funny. Thanks!  

I don't want to seem "holier than the pope" (is that an english expression?), but the original story really was not funny at all. If the joke isn't death itself, it can be funny though. Like the way people died in those naked eye movies (ok that shows my lack of taste, but still) or even in Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy grail (rabbit bites head off). Pulp Fiction (gunshot in the car scene) might be borderline, but yes I found that funny.

:edit:  changed "naked eye" to "naked gun". I meant the movie with leslie nielsen where the guy falls off a balkony and gets run over by things and a band and in the end someone says, that's exactly how his dad died ...   Or the one where someone gets shots and then tumbles all over the places (burns his hands, bumps his head and stuff)

[Tiger-Heli]

I don't want to seem "holier than the pope" (is that an english expression?),

Yep, I've heard it before . . .

Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy grail (rabbit bites head off).

I liked when "Things were looking grim for our little band until, . . . the animator suffered a massive heart attack and . . . "

Or the troll who didn't know whether it was an African or American swallow . . .

or the dismembered knight saying "Tis but a flesh wound, come back and fight you cowards"

Okay, Okay, no shortage of poor taste on these boards.

[voodoochile]

Saint getting injuried is always funny...FOOTBALL IN THE GROIN...FOOTBALL IN THE GROIN...SirP is right it should have been a box of leather bound Project Arcade books ment for the orphans....btw the cab should have been a enviorment Disk O Tron..cuz man what a way to go!

[Brax]

Close. But it would have been funny if Saint was MAIMED. Not to mention the fact that you gave away the joke in the same paragraph. Maybe I'm just crusty today but I my reaction was: Ah, an attempt at humour.....

Better to leave people hanging than explain the joke....