14-Year-Old Dies Cartoon Death

By Sam Bakken in News on May 2, 2005 6:37PM

Early Saturday morning, a 14-year-old boy from Lake Villa, near Illinois' Wisconsin border, died. And the seeming nonchalance with which the AP delivers the following indirect quote caught us a bit off guard, "Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said Carl Schultz Jr. had borrowed a relative's car for a late-night ride." You still have to be 16-years-old to drive a car without supervision right? And even on weekends shouldn't 14-year-olds be in bed before midnight?

The boy's late-night ride, and life, ended when he lost control of the car near an intersection and hit a pole. But he didn't die in the crash. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt and flew out of the car's sunroof. He died when he hit the power lines—ALMOST FIFTY FEET HIGH IN THE AIR! Poor kid, that's quite a launch.