There Once Was a Man From Nantucket Who Took a Challenge With an Ice Bucket

The Ice Bucket challenge going viral in society is pretty ridiculous. No, I won’t participate in it. This man from Nantucket helped start the whole Ice bucket challenge, and when he raised over 100 thousand dollars for ALS, he celebrated by doing a swan dive off a Pierfront building into the water, killing himself. Well, I guess he really helped raise that consciousness for this disease, eh?

From the I&M here:

A Scituate man drowned after diving from a building on Straight Wharf into the waters of Nantucket Harbor early Saturday morning, police said.

Corey C. Griffin, 27, of Scituate, Mass. was reported missing in the harbor after diving from the former All-Serve “Juice Guys” building at 44 Straight Wharf. Witnesses told police Griffin had jumped off the building into the water, and floated to the surface. Griffin then went under the water again and did not resurface.

Griffin to Nantucket Cottage Hospital by ambulance. The attending physician pronounced his death at 3 a.m.

Griffin, a former Boston College and Babson hockey player, was on the island to coordinate a fundraiser at The Chicken Box for his friend Pete Frates, a 29-year-old Beverly, Mass. man and former Boston College baseball player who suffers from ALS, or Lou Gherig’s disease, and with a friend started the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for ALS research. Griffin had already raised $100,000 for ALS charities prior to Saturday’s fundraiser, which was canceled.

Jumping off the All-Serve building has long been an end-of-summer rite of passage for some young summer workers and visitors to the island.

Yeah, so the whole ice bucket challenge was dreamt up by an idiot. But thanks everyone for playing! His next challenge will be to go jump in a lake. Any takers?