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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (301)

This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Wednesday, December 29; link good at time of posting):

A man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version of the video game "Frogger."

Authorities said the 23-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Anderson after he was struck at around 9 p.m. Monday.

In the "Frogger" arcade game, players move frogs through traffic on a busy road and through a hazard-filled river. Before he was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his friends.

Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man yelled "go" and darted into oncoming traffic in the four-lane highway.

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Full post as published by Infamy or Praise on December 31, 2010 (boomark / email).