Monster truck promoter killed in Madison.

[shoooo32]

http://jalopnik.com/5139164/monster-...h-in-two-weeks

George Eisenhart Jr., promoter and announcer of the Monster Truck Nationals, was injured and died Saturday night at his Monster Truck show in Wisconsin — the second death in a week involving monster trucks.
Eisenhart, 41, of Chardon, Ohio, was president and owner of Image Productions, the Ohio company that's been staging the Monster Nationals around the country since 1993. He also was the show's promoter and announcer.
Eisenhart was hit by one of the giant-wheeled vehicles when he stepped into its path near the end of the performance. He was pronounced dead two hours later at Univeristy of Wisconsin Hospital of major, "crushing" internal injuries, Coroner John Stanley claimed in a news conference Sunday.

[jbiscuit]

Look both ways before crossing

[4eyedstang]

sounds like a suicide to me.

[Feature Pony]

sounds like a suicide to me.

I doubt that in front of all the kids that saw that. Most likely a accident he probably wasn't paying attention to what was happening around him. R.I.P.

[Prince Valiant]

Local coverage of the accident...

[Car Guy]

WOW, what a way to go.....

[DirtyMax]

Some fan just got killed at another monster truck show too not long ago. Pretty soon the days of arena monster truck shows are going to be a memory at this rate.

[pashtrd]

Some fan just got killed at another monster truck show too not long ago. Pretty soon the days of arena monster truck shows are going to be a memory at this rate.

IMO the days of arena shows should come to an end. a lot of the venues are small, too small for these trucks to put on a good show. I have been to a number of them at the Bradley center, though they are fun , they are nothing like the ones they used to run at state fair park. Outside arenas are bigger, the trucks are faster, better trucks show up, just alot more fun all around.

[Voodoo Chick]

How do you unknowingly step into the path of a monster truck!? Still, what an awful way to die. Poor guy.

[Prince Valiant]

How do you unknowingly step into the path of a monster truck!?

my guess is that it's pretty loud, with noise coming from everywhere...so it begins to get tough to know where every sound is coming from at all times. Combine that with complacency and familiarity tends to reduce awareness of the danger surrounding and coming up upon him.

[jbiscuit]

Pretty soon the days of arena monster truck shows are going to be a memory at this rate.

This just might do that.....you can bet that attendance at these events will drop like a rock. Just a matter of time at this point and it should be about done.

[Karps TA]

IMO the days of arena shows should come to an end. a lot of the venues are small, too small for these trucks to put on a good show. I have been to a number of them at the Bradley center, though they are fun , they are nothing like the ones they used to run at state fair park. Outside arenas are bigger, the trucks are faster, better trucks show up, just alot more fun all around.

Yeah but it gives something for people/families to do in winter. There's plenty to do in summer already.

[Voodoo Chick]

my guess is that it's pretty loud, with noise coming from everywhere...so it begins to get tough to know where every sound is coming from at all times. Combine that with complacency and familiarity tends to reduce awareness of the danger surrounding and coming up upon him.

Yeah, I'm thinking you're probably right. It is probably loud as **** in there, and after a while they get so used to being around all the noise and commotion they are desensitized. I really hope he didn't suffer.

[Car Guy]

I would be surprised if this kind of thing is still around in a few years.....

[Feature Pony]

This just might do that.....you can bet that attendance at these events will drop like a rock. Just a matter of time at this point and it should be about done.

Attendance wont drop anytime soon there are alot of kids that are now glued to monster jam (my son is one of them) the big show in vegas is just that very big and tickets sell out in minutes!!

[Flicktitty]

Funeral arrangements have been made for SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAAAY!

lol..


dude was dumb, that's all why wouldn't you look? seriously.

[awsomeears]

I think he just was to comfortable around them, when you let your guard down that's when shit hits the fan !!!

RIP !!!

[Moparjim]

Its a bummer obviously, but I don't see how it will kill the events/sport. People have died at everything from Indy to NASCAR to drag racing events - that photographer was killed at Union Grove a couple years ago wasn't he? Every other type of racing has weathered the occasional tradgic accident. Not to mention, forget about just motorsports, people have been killed at everything from Soccer games to plane crashes to Great White concerts!

Not to mention, your still much more likely to die in your own home slipping in the bathtub or whatever.

Its a sad event, but the m-asses will have forgotten about it by Wednesday.

[Car Guy]

Good point, but honestly I think it all comes down to how it 'plays out' in the media/public eye.....

[That_Guy]

I think he just was to comfortable around them, when you let your guard down that's when shit hits the fan !!!

RIP !!!

i have a relative who does even organizing for these types of evens.. some of you may know him "rev" shit like this can happen to anybody who is on the floor.. but you would think being down there he would be on high alert with everything going on around him