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Off-duty policeman Andre Beukes, 27, decided to take a speedboat out for a spin behind Loskop Dam in South Africa. He wasn’t watching where he was going any too carefully — he drove the boat right over the dam wall and fell 165 feet to his death on the rocks below. “People saw him going over. There were quite a lot of people in quite a state,” a witness said. (Reuters) ...None more than he.


Publication Date: 14 January 2001

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 7.