
In 2008 46-year-old David Monk was on holiday in Sauze D’Oulx, Italy, with a group of friends.
After having a few beers one evening, the lads decided to steal a protective mat that covered the metal barriers at the bottom of the slope and use it as a sledge. They hiked up the hill, hurled themselves down it, and promptly slammed straight into the very same barrier they’d stolen the protective matting from.
David died on the spot.
“He was a brilliant guy,” David’s friend Alan MacGregor told the Daily Mail.
