Another "Thelma & Louise" stunt

For some reason, a guy drove through a hotel lawn & sidewalk, and then continued over the rim of the Grand Canyon bouncing off rocks before his crash landing about 600 feet below.

What would make people do something so dumb?
~BTW~ the movie was actually filmed in UTAH not at the grand canyon

 

Was he trying to commit suicide or was it a freak accident?

 

That sucks.

 

Really, if people are going to end their lives, they should at least leave beautiful places like the Grand Canyon undamaged for the rest of us to enjoy. There are many other ways to go that are just as eye-catching and dramatic.

 

he probably thought he could jump it.

 

like evil knievel thought he could jump the snake river

 

That's an easy assumptions.

I'd guess that his only son, the one which was born to his now dead beautiful wife after years of trying and infertility, was kidnapped by a throng of Mexican banditos. They held the son hostage, while sending sexually suggestive pictures of the son's feet to the unfortunate father. The pictures became more and more sexually suggestive, and the banditos began demanding money or the equivalent in beans. The father could not afford the beans, even though he did have the money. He went to his wife's grave, one last damn time, and urinated on it as it is the costum in Arizona, shed a single tear, and plunged to his death in a symbolic jesture of a modern day Icarus minus all the symbolism.

 

Probably