Death on the sands! Call the nanny state!
Via Huber,
Reason on Line uncovers the scandal: Castles Made of Sand IV: The Revenge — This Time It’s Personal
Is this from The Onion?
Noooo….
The article’s in the New England Journal of Medicine: Sudden Death from Collapsing Sand Holes. Where the NJEM goes, can CNN be far behind?
Or, as a commenter in the Reason post says,
Good thing the New England Journal of Medicine is covering this issue…nothing screams Medicine like people falling into holes…
Here, I’ve invented a cure:
You can thank me later. Nominations to the Nobel Prize for Medicine are deeply appreciated.
(Later today I’ll go to the beach and photograph one of these lurking dangers as a public service to my readers.)
Update, Saturday June 30:
I did go to the beach that day and photographed, but wasn’t able to post the photos because I was too lazy until today. So here you have them:
Holes to China, or craters of death?
This one has a lethal weapon ready to chew your toes:

I post, you decide.

June 28th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
You’ve got my nomination.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Thanks!