High Winds cause Parasailing Death (behind a tractor!)

Waco Tribune ^ | 2/8/06 | Mikey_1962

[Old Professer]

Google, :)

[IronJack]

IF he was using the maximum-diameter chute, and IF the tractor weighed no more than 1,500 pounds (which is pretty light for anything but a small orchard tractor), then I guess a gust could have caused a problem. But it would have to be a freak set of circumstances, I would think.

[KeepUSfree]

No, you are trying to compare people who MUST take risks during training and put their lives on the line to defend our country to "somebody who tied themselves to the back of a tractor for the fun of it".

That's like comparing a soldier who gets killed in a jeep during training excercises to somebody who drives their jeep too fast and hits a tree. Even if they were doing the EXACT same thing....the soldiers "had a purpose".

In addition, those navy skydivers did NOT make the call themselves. They were ordered by a commanding officer.

The guy on the tractor CHOSE to tie himself to the tractor.

No matter how you slice it - tractor guy was stupid. Outcome pretty much proves it.

[Coop]

Outcome pretty much proves it.

Then so was the sailor.

[MinuteGal]

I wouldn't call this a "tragic accident".

When you push the envelope over the edge of intelligence into the abyss of rank stupidity, it's no accident.

Leni