Ouch!

[EE_]

Dec 29, 11:33 AM EST

WEIGHTLIFTER DIES AFTER 315-POUND BARBELL DROPS ON HIS NECK

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) -- Authorities say a 22-year-old man has died after a barbell slipped from his grasp and crushed his neck at a gym in central Iowa.

The accident occurred Monday morning at Elite Edge Transformation Center in Ankeny, about 10 miles north of Des Moines. A spokesman for the center, Mark Yontz, said Thursday that Kyle Thomson was bench-pressing 315 pounds when the barbell slipped.

Ankeny Fire Chief James Clack says the barbell fell on Thomson's neck. Clack says a fire ambulance took Thomson to a Des Moines hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Yontz says there were spotters watching Thomson on the bench.

Iowa State University spokeswoman Annette Hacker says Thomson was a student there and lived in Pleasant Hill.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WEIGHTLIFTING_DEATH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-12-29-11-33-56

[Ares]

Yontz says there were spotters watching Thomson on the bench.

Apparently so, they just watched and didn't actually catch the barbell.

That was my max bench press when I was 23 years old, there's no way in hell I could do that weight now... lol

[ximmy]

spotters were watching... LOL


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_kEK0vv784

[old steel]

I can still do 225 with a broken down and healed several times over rotator cuff. ;)

[PatColo]

Some dood died the same way last july just days before tesifying against killery...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-02/un-official-accidentally-crushes-own-throat-right-testifying-against-hillary-clinton

[Neuro]

I can still do 225 with a broken down and healed several times over rotator cuff. ;)

Apparently some never learn... ;D

[Joshua01]

Some dood died the same way last july just days before tesifying against killery...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-02/un-official-accidentally-crushes-own-throat-right-testifying-against-hillary-clinton


I'll celebrate like never before when killery dies

[Neuro]

Dec 29, 11:33 AM EST

WEIGHTLIFTER DIES AFTER 315-POUND BARBELL DROPS ON HIS NECK

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) -- Authorities say a 22-year-old man has died after a barbell slipped from his grasp and crushed his neck at a gym in central Iowa.

The accident occurred Monday morning at Elite Edge Transformation Center in Ankeny, about 10 miles north of Des Moines. A spokesman for the center, Mark Yontz, said Thursday that Kyle Thomson was bench-pressing 315 pounds when the barbell slipped.

Ankeny Fire Chief James Clack says the barbell fell on Thomson's neck. Clack says a fire ambulance took Thomson to a Des Moines hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Yontz says there were spotters watching Thomson on the bench.

Iowa State University spokeswoman Annette Hacker says Thomson was a student there and lived in Pleasant Hill.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WEIGHTLIFTING_DEATH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-12-29-11-33-56

Wasn't 7th Trump from Iowa?

[Hitch]

Wasn't 7th Trump from Iowa?

The article says a 315 pound barbell, not a 3 pound barbell. I'm sure the 7th is fine.

[Neuro]

The article says a 315 pound barbell, not a 3 pound barbell. I'm sure the 7th is fine.

I was thinking he may have been one of the spotters. The young lad may have said something that the 7th figured he deserved to go to hell for... Just helping out "God" a bit.