Somebody is Pissed

OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An 8-year-old girl died and three others were injured Wednesday when an oak tree crashed down on them during a first-aid class at a Boy Scout camp, authorities said.

The girls were attending an overnight camp when the 31-foot tree snapped and crashed through a tarp over a picnic table, landing on the girl's head, Police Chief Kenneth Flatt said.

Four adult Scout leaders were killed in a July electrical accident in Virginia at the National Boy Scout Jamboree. Five other people have died this summer from drowning and lightning during Scout outings in Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah and California.

The scouting horrors started with the Boy Scout jamboree, and I postd a few subsequent stories of adults and kids involved in freak accidents. I left a couple stories out as well, not wanting to seem goulish or taking any pleasure in it.

But it is getting re-god-damn-diculous, this seemingly never-ending string of Scouting tragedies. It's one after the other...

Still, I have to wonder whether it's truly an anomoly to have so many freak accidents happen to scouts in a short period of time, or if these types of situations are typical and it's just that now the media is publishing each and every story, post the Scout leaders bursting into flames at the jamboree event.

In any case, it's prety weird.. and sad..