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A teenage rite of passage made popular in a movie claimed a life yesterday when an 18-year-old high school graduate plunged 65 feet to his death into an Indiana quarry pool, ABC reports. The plunge was featured in the 1979 coming-of-age movie Breaking Away and is routinely copied by local youth, despite the best efforts of law enforcement to stop them.
"There are people who have died there and people who are still paralyzed, but they want to experience it for themselves," said a spokesman for the sheriff's office. "It's kind of like Russian Roulette."
