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Skydivers and Hangliders..........

bgjohnbgjohn Member Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
Have a death wish. They usually go into "real estate"! Ha!
JM[:(]
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was in the garage doing for work last week. I heard a combination "THUD and "POP" kind of like an aerosol can blowing up in a fire. My wife an I looked at each other with that "What the heck" expression.

    An hour later I noticed an unopened parachute in the corn filed across the road from the house. No body connected to it.

    I don't think are neighbor has killed any customers in the last year, but business has dropped off.
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    I have done both - I'm not into realestate!!
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  • bgjohnbgjohn Member Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BlueTic
    I have done both - I'm not into realestate!!


    Yet!
    JM[:X]
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some of us have what it takes to do it and others wish they had and make idiotic remarks to compensate for their shortcomings.[;)]
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    he said unopened parachute. someone forgot to secure the load in an aircraft. the whole chute fell out.
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  • bgjohnbgjohn Member Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gunpaq
    Some of us have what it takes to do it and others wish they had and make idiotic remarks to compensate for their shortcomings.[;)]


    Yeah, I have heard this all before. Two guys I used to work with had 150 jumps each. One of them cashed it in at a mall grand opening. The newspaper had a picture of him at palm tree level trying to get his chute untangled. His buddy promptly gave up skydiving.

    Hanglider guy we knew poo-pooed the danger of it until he got tangled in some power lines and dropped to the rocks below breaking a few bones.

    What do you say now? Huh?
    JM[?]
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    its a bummer when you live next to a skydiving business, aint it john? sorta like living next to a drug rehab center...you see all the bad stuff, and never see the good.[;)]

    its amazing some of the rescues a trained para-rescue team can do. and what should be noted is that they are willing to DIE to save the ones they are helping.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Yeah, I have heard this all before. Two guys I used to work with had 150 jumps each. One of them cashed it in at a mall grand opening. The newspaper had a picture of him at palm tree level trying to get his chute untangled. His buddy promptly gave up skydiving.

    With more than 5,134 jumps, military and civilian in 25 years never had a serious or minor injury until some idiot leg talking on a cell phone while driving hit me head on. The trauma the idiot leg suufere was so severe that he gave up life all together.[;)]
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    some people are so brave, they dont even use parachutes. they depend on a 1/2" cable or rope.[;)]

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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Brave?

    I'm just glas the parachute didn't hit my house. [:0]
    It as about 100 yards away.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Brave?

    Whuffo they jump?
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    There will always be some wannabees...
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  • CA sucksCA sucks Member Posts: 4,310
    edited November -1
    Doesn't look like I'm going into real estate in any of these videos:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ecaCCpe7o

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2EcGDquAds

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iidDblybpo8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDvQOFifPlI

    Of course its dangerous, so is driving a car, as long as you remain thoughtful and careful about how you do it, you can manage the risk to a very low level- if you get complacent you can easily die.

    I think the same holds true for riding a motorcycle, or even just driving a car (forget to check before a lane change on the freeway, and it could be all over for you).

    I don't know about your friend, but he was doing something wrong if he was getting anywhere near power lines.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    he wasnt getting near powerlines. he dropped his rig out the jump aircraft door and almost hit johns house with it! thats an faa violation and john could have been a rich man.[;)]
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,702 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some of us have what it takes to do it and others wish they had and make idiotic remarks to compensate for their shortcomings

    Thank you gunpaq I have done both, including quite a bit of hang gliding.
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  • bgjohnbgjohn Member Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I give up.
    JM[8)]
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    poor john. i feel for ya.[:p] all them emergency rigs ruining your crop to go get some bag of cement that just killed himself because he didnt follow procedures.

    wasa time where people that were involved with this sport were ex-mil and knew the dangers involved and treated it with respect. now...its all mass production spit em out for bucks and oh....yes you can die is planted somewhere in small print....instead of right up front.

    and as the sport becomes too easy, sure enough, the idiots make it more dangerous. falling flat and stable just aint good enough, no they gotta surfboard and go low or do hook turn landings. glad i quit years ago. id rather be remembered as one of the smart ones that got paid to do that stuff.

    hey john, take a look at the auction i have. can ya burn a copy and send it over to your dropzone neighbor and tell em an old lady from pasadina is getting out of the sport and is selling her stuff![:D]

    http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=101848511
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