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Straight out of 'Beat It': Man Dies in Conn. Dance Faceoff

abcnews.go.com — A man died while trying to outdo a rival with an acrobatic move while "battle dancing," police said. Robert Stitt, 48, and his rival were competing in a parking lot Monday night when he tried a forward flip and landed on his head. "It was just two guys dancing. Everybody was laughing," Stitt's friend John Boxley said.

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  • mr.hostility, on 10/12/2007, -3/+75Oh you got served!
  • anaesthetica, on 10/12/2007, -5/+67Dangerous movies like Zoolander ought to be banned! They're a menace to our children, just like violent video games and Marilyn Manson.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65They were break dancing to Brittany Spears songs. It should be classified a suicide.
  • Cwo655321, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49"It was just two guys dancing. Everybody was laughing,"

    looks like there will be many more people laughing now.
  • PATSCRU, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51they're breakdance fighting
  • f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44Man, he broke out The Faceplant of Death... A tough act to follow. At least we know these were some serious breakers.
  • SomeJerk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Served!
  • f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33How _not_ to do the Faceplant of Death: Live through it.

    We saw this attempted on national television once before but the preformer failed.

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/343544/so_you_think_you_can_dance_face_plant/
  • Dayyve, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Well he shouldn't have pulled out that move that should never be named.
  • dasdef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Hahahaha he was 48? a 48 year old dancing in a parking lot, attempting to do front flips? Even i feel a bit embarassed when im drunk and WATCHING friends dance. Ahaha
  • FearMEiDEA, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Relax, don't do it, when you wanna come....
  • Kulas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23The 1st rule of Dance club is NEVER TALK ABOUT DANCE CLUB!
  • Dayyve, on 10/12/2007, -8/+28In all honesty someone please nominate this guy for the Darwin Award.
  • nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24"Robert Stitt, 48, and his rival..."

    48? Seriously? So that would make his rival 12?
  • shartman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20True, but it took 48 years.
  • uptown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Killer move.....
  • phike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10He got served pretty bad. Not too many people can get served like that and make it through.

    Reminds me of the Southpark episode where Stan's dad ends up in the hospital after he gets served.
  • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Darwin would be right if this guy died at the age of 13 trying to do this. Chances are if he was dancing in parking lots with men at the age of 48 he wasn't going to pass along his genes anyways.



    If he ever donated sperm, the samples should be destroyed.
  • Nogger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Naaa, it was a mere accident. This would be like nominating anyone who fall down some stairs and died.

    Now, if he would have tried the flip as a $5 bet while juggling chain-saws on a greasy ledge over a lava pool, that would be more like it.
  • buzzdoit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8All over the country people are dying from gang wars and the drug trade. Not in Connecticut.
    Nope in Connecticut, people are dying from parking lot dance-offs gone horribly awry.

  • Condottieri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Do as you are trained... AND KILL THE MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER!
  • avasol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Wow so many comments and not one refering to Darwin Awards.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Who's wrong or right?

    Oh that's right it doesn't matter!
  • davesbrain, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14AT 48 you'd think he'd have moved beyond the "Dance Fight" as a means to proving his manhood. Darwin was right, and he's earned his award.
  • mr.hostility, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Oh it's on!
  • pokjob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Why jump on your head? That's too much.

    When I get into scuffles of this nature I just give the guy a mean look and do a nasty arm-wave. Eyes bug out, jaws drop and and they yell "OH SNAP! NO HE DI - INT". Then..the fool just crumbles and I stand over 'im like Muhammad Ali ... sneering down - askin' if they want more.
  • Dayyve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Just wait until they start with the stomp moves. Women and children will be accidentally flattened everywhere by men trying to prove themselves.
  • dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Footloose had it right... dancing is the devils work!
  • icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5how come we don't see any deaths on Dancing with the Stars?
  • eliezersilver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dying dancing to James Brown, I can't think of any better way to go.
  • sameagain, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11you may have miscounted - yours refers to the Darwin Awards - that's at least one
  • elenadragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There was also a South Park episode about it. Much funnier.
  • Cerialthriller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"you got served" is the dance battle version of owned. they made soem ***** movie about like dance battles called you got served and it kinda stuck i guess.
  • meez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Beat Street
    The king of the beat
    You see him rocking that beat from across the street
    And Huh Huh!
    Beat Street is a lesson too, because you can’t let the Streets beat you!

    The eightes kicked ass.
  • fugularity, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Looks like you really CAN die from beating off...
  • imnojezus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm not a fan of laughing at other peoples' misfortune, but that goes in the running for funniest death of all time.
  • pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8oh stitt!
  • tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I guess they forgot to put the cardboard down.
  • jonmills, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well, someone had to bring it up...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVswFzaYcCM
  • arrogantprick, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Nice to see Natural Selection at work.
  • Kazbaeden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4He got F'ed up the A!
  • drdank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Worse, he didn't win in time to save the youth center from being demolished.
  • Barbarino, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5What the hell is a 48 year old doing in a parking lot battle dancing? Get on the golf course ass clown!
  • BootsElectric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just another example of Dance Dance Evolution

    nyuk nyuk nyuk
  • dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The first thing I thought about when I read this was Derek Zoolander's and Hansel's fashion face off. And laughed appropriately.
  • csimpkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For some reason, I imagined this guy's face in the Mortal Kombat opponent ladder... defeated. Ze Frank was at the top awaiting a worthy challenger.

    http://www.zefrank.com/indexdance.html
  • Br0wn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5we lost a lot of good feet that day.
  • ianmorris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2reminds me of an ad from , "so you think you can dance". i wonder if it's darwin award worthy

    edit: i'm not the only person who though of that.
  • PERKASETMUNCHER, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn I would love to see a video of a 48 year old trying to do a front flip, drunk, in a parking lot.
  • bigteebo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Anyone remember that urban legend 20+ years ago about that kid who died doing the headspin? I think he was related to the kid who died form pop rocks + Coke.

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