Part of the reason why I never took a traditional College Spring Break Trip to one of America's many debauched alcohol-and-regret conclaves was because of my poor self-esteem related to being a pale, skeletal nerd that broke out in a nervous sweat just being within 25 feet of a woman.
Another reason why I never did it is because I was thoroughly convinced that my chances of dying horribly would go up by a not-insignificant percentage. This is a fear that has been at least somewhat justified by this story of Iowa State heroism:
A spring break trip of fun and frivolity took a sharp turn for a group of Iowa State football players, as the trio of Anthony Lazard, Jack Spreen, Joe Doran, saved a woman from drowning.
The group, along with current and former Cyclones Spencer Benton, Matt Swoyer and Josh Jahlas, was vacationing on South Padre Island, Texas, when Jahlas, standing on a hotel balcony, noticed 22-year-old Luisa Maria Castro drive her car into Laguna Madre Bay. Lazard, Spreen and Doran sprinted to save her, jumping into the bay and swimming to Castro’s rapidly sinking car.
Yikes. The three had some difficulty getting her window open, but they were able to pull Castro out to safety. Speaking of, what happened to her?
As for Castro? She was arrested. Her blood alcohol level tested at nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08.
Yeah, never go anywhere for Spring Break.
