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- cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -23/+91Dugg because you avoided such an inaccurate title. ;-)
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -6/+56@R1SENFA17H
dude...it woulda been funny for that exact reason. - GTPilot, on 10/12/2007, -16/+54who gives a ***** why you burried someone's comment?
- Rezzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33I think I'd take thorns over hard ground any day, but that's just me.
- mistermanoli, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31blackberry bush...
http://coastalrain.tripod.com/cupola/thumbnails/400x300/IMG_0007.JPG - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+36@GTPilot
I dugg your comment up because you made a good point and it made me laugh. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33How about you _you_ start typing two extra characters so that you won't look like an idiot anymore.
- c5mjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26The story was kind of neat, but that "What is Skydiving" section came out of left field.
- joshman5k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Wouldn't lucky involve the first parachute working?
- Blarbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Blackberry bushes have nasty thorns.
- vuzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22@ufia: At my skydiving club we have to pack our own rigs, starting from the second jump(!). It can be pretty scary to jump with a rig that you know you packed yourself, and you just learned how to pack that morning...
But the packing is supervised and controlled at certain points during the packing, and the reserve has to be packed by someone with a special certification for packing reserve chutes. If you do jump with a rig that someone else packed it has to be recorded in a log who packed that particular rig and who supervised the packing.
In my experience, despite their (our ;) seemingly reckless behavior and lack of respect for their own lives, skydivers are extremely focused on safety, and there is no horseplay with the security aspects of skydiving. This is especially true when it comes to other people's safety; skydivers might lack respect for their own lives, but not for the lives of others. - Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23@GTPilot
Who cares why you care about someone not caring? - drafhk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Depends on if you're emo.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17oh its great how they put all that info about "What is skydiving" ... i never, in my 20 years of being alive, figured that out yet : |
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13what? this story covers none of the content that actually happened... like, did his malfunctioned parachute resist the wind enough to save him or was it really the bush that crashed his fall come on.... at least I know what sky diving is now /sarcasm
- andy1250, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Long-Fall
But it is always best not to fall at all. - Wizardo55, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9A few scratches are preferable to dying...
Of course, that's just me... - Earlofnecromium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Please god tell me he was wearing the helmet cam.
- synystar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13@GTPilot He couldn't resist the potential diggs. then again .. neither could you. *****. the three of us should form a support group.
- darthmdh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That's because they have tasty berries.
I've also done a plummet into blackberry bushes. I don't remember feeling the thorns. I do remember feeling my bike land on top of me. The bush itself was actually kinda comfy compared to solid ground. I lost a veritable arseload of blood and was comatose for 3 days. - stcmoose32, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Is anyone else still trying to figure out how a measly blackberry bush stops a guy at terminal velocity? Are we to assume he had at least partial chute deployment? I read the article, but I just can't picture it.
Either way, I bet that bush got pwn'd - rbridenb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6this article has a little more detail
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006590172,00.html
"The two flapping chutes would have slowed him to between 90mph and 100mph, helping to save his life." - arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The article says the guy is _from_ Jersey. Where you are physically located at that given moment and where you are originally from are two separate concepts.
- CygonX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm glad that posted the full description of what skydiving is, up until I got to that part I thought skydiving was the act of jumping out of an airplane and trying to land very precisely on a particular kind of bush...
- justinmartinez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I would like to know who "they" are and "they" know this information. I'm sure that the remains scraped from the pavement wouldn't tell too much in an autopsy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@klawz
I suppose you type "email to josh at Duke University" in the "To" field of emails, right?
Wrong. You're an idiot. Also, none of the other comments I made on this page are about grammar or spelling. You have no idea what you're talking about. - IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4#7 Land on the balls !
And that article is the best article on the face of the internet. - HHP2K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But bush did save the day..
-goes back to watching press conferences- - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thank your deity of choice for blackberry bushes and terminal velocity!
- CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No one have ever died from a fall .. it's the landing that kills them.
- IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes because suicidal people are afraid of death.
But what do I know, I'm just emo... I don't know anything about suicide - AndrewLZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4haha that was neat to read. most of it really was common sense. good to have in the back of my head in case (science forbid) i do ever fall.
thanks for that. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just FYI - You can't really cut-away your reserve parachute. It's fixed to your rig. The only way to get rid of it is to actually have a knife and cut it's strings. But, no one would really ever do that. It's all you have. If it's opened above you, and you've already cut away your main chute, you will try to land with the reserve no matter what you have above your head!
Also, this article is horrible. The guy obviously had his reserve parachute open, at least to some extent. He may have had a "line-over" malfunction. It's obviously not an ideal parachute to have over your head, but its still survivable. If he hit the bush at a box-man (best possible scenario) terminal velocity of 120mph, he would be so dead. - akinder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And then RIM sues him?
- justinmartinez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The first parachute did open, then became "tangled," according to the victims father. The man probably didn't fall directly, but with a tangled parachute over head.
- loper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He was asked how his son felt about falling and told us "Michael is Michael and he will bounce back from it and will be skydiving again in a months time".
haha *rimshot* - riksta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The guy had a helmet cam on his jump, can't wait for that bad boy to hit the youtubes!
- SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I nearly put the title as Bush Saves the Day but changed my mind"
How about "Blackberry Saves Man's Life"? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am a big fan of your other title.
- plingboot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@dziban303
Nah, it's cord in england too, the article is just very poorly written (What is Skydiving?!?)
Surprising for the BBC maybe, but then it is just a crappy BBC local page. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@rumor
I hardly consider expecting someone to type out the word "you" picky.
And no, this is not a casual environment. 6th grade AOL chat rooms are casual environments. - mglmouser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not the first time this occurs. I've head of a chute instructor who had well above 150 jumps of experience whose chutes didn't open (both the main and reserve).
What saved her was that the trailing tangled up chutes had slowed down her fall bellow terminal velocity and spun her around until she lost consciousness. When she hit the trees, branches slowed her down until she finally hit the ground. I dont remember the details but she had broken rib cage and leg and a number of lacerations. Being unconscious means your muscles are relaxed and dont cause additional injuries on impact, so that helped too. She did survive to tell the story though and afaik, she's back at it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Do they still hand out parachutes folded by a complete stranger who jumped before you? That always scared the ***** out of me.
- vuzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@erikt311: It doesn't make you fell better to know that if you die in a horrible accident they'll know who to blame, Oh well... ;)
Nah, just look forward to the experience, it'll be even better than you think. And remember that it's never the rookies that get into accidents (other than a broken ankle due to a botched landing), it's always experienced skydivers because after 200-300 jumps they start to take chances. - griz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The number of miles they fall is not relevant but makes the survivability sound more amazing than saying, "Sky Diver survives impact with bush at 120MPH"...On second thought.
- erikt311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@vuzman:
Dugg for the info, but recording it in a log doesn't especially make me feel any more comfortable :)
That being said, looking forward to my first skydiving experience when winter is over! - scelter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This reminds me of skydiving accident just a month ago in Zwartberg, Belgium. A woman died after her primary and backup parachute failed. She landed right next to a lady working in her garden. The accident was investigated and they figured out that the wires of both parachutes were cut. What's even more stunning is that she did several jumps earlier that day and always kept her parachute around her in between, meaning that somebody of her own club probably sabotaged it.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1071076/posts
- Joe091, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is a scary-ass article. I'm flying over the Atlantic in a few months and I don't even want to think about this...
- JorgeGT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Free my mind, free my mind..."
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