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  1. 01-03-2012, 09:09 AM #1
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    New Years Day tragedy in New Zealand

    His foot caught in a narrow chasm, a 15-year-old hung upside down in a New Zealand waterfall for more than three hours - sucking air from a pocket behind the water, but stricken with hypothermia - as rescuers desperately tried to save him.


    Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-terrib...#ixzz1iPsJVIRD
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  4. 01-03-2012, 06:55 PM #3
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    damn. that's where i used to live for 8 years. been up the mototapu many time just below where this incident took place. my best to the family.
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