Are We Experiencing Some Sort of Poor Bastard Epidemic....?

When Brownwood, TX fire-fighter Shannon Stone fell to his death last week at a Texas Ranger's baseball game while reaching to catch a souvenir baseball, The editorial staff at The Poor Bastard's Gazette might have been willing to chalk it up as an unfortunate tragedy and let if pass without comment.

But when we scanned the headlines and wire reports this morning only to learn that some Stupid Poor Bastard  had almost suffered the same fate during last night's Home Run Derby at Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ, we felt compelled to raise the question....." is this some sort of epidemic sweeping through the Kingdom of the Poor Bastard?"

Stupid Poor Bastard Keith Carmickle is seen above, only seconds before he fell over the railing at the bottom of the picture, to an almost certain death...eerily similar to a tragic incident that occurred last week at a Texas Ranger's baseball game in which a Brownwood, TX fire fighter did in fact, fall to his death while reaching to catch a souvenir baseball.

Carmickle is captured in this timeless picture only seconds later as friends and family literally hold his life in their hands...leading Inquiring Poor Bastards to wonder whether we are experiencing an epidemic of public displays of stupidity from Poor Bastards throughout the Kingdom of the Poor Bastard?

Or is this just another example of the ongoing culling of the Poor Bastard Gene Pool?