Bond, is that you?
Posted on 02/16/2009 7:36:39 AM PST by Mikey_1962
PHOENIX — A parachutist jumping from a mountain base in Arizona died after falling 250 feet with a chute that apparently failed to open.
Dispatchers received a 911 call around 2 p.m. Sunday that a parachutist had been injured after jumping off a mountain base near Saguaro Lake northeast of Phoenix, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Doug Matteson said
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He “jumped” from the base of the mountain?! What was the fall? About a foot and a half?
‘injured’? Uh....yeah.
Live fast. Die Young. Leave a corpse strewn over a very wide area.
Airborne are stupid?
I thought the same thing.
BASE jumping: Jumping off Buildings, Antennas, Spans, and Earth. The author is obviously confused.....gee what a surprise.
my gurlfrnd syas my tyipgns as goood as my sex
Waht’s your grlfrnd’s mane???
but he died about an hour after the accident.
Reminds me of a Darwin Award winner a few years back...he bungee-jumped from a railroad trestle.The “bungee” was about 10 feet too long....D’OH!
It doesn't say that at all, does it?
It says he jumped from a mountain base. That means the base from which he jumped was a mountain.
You are not a liberal are you?
Have the winner(s) for 2008 been announced?
This is award season, after all.
The man’s new name is James Squash
Sometimes natural selection wins.
Bond, is that you?
MADE in China?
I see no reason to jump from a perfectly safe mountain...
Remember the skydiver with the gliding suit that tried to impress his friends by flying between some bridge cables. Small errors can have sever(e) consequences.
For years I used to join the large forehead crowd and watch base jumpers step off the 850-foot New River Bridge (WV). My two-cents says either his drogue wasn’t big enough or he left the articulated slider in the “up” position. I would never BASE jump myself, tho.
There was a BLM agent out West who had a troublesome grizzly bear in his sector. To relocate it, he darted the bear and then slingloaded it by helicopter. Unfortunately, the load began to oscillate and the pilot was forced to “airmail” the tranked bruin from about 2,000 feet.
The BLM guy retired soon after. Everyone kept addressing him as “Splat”.
“Hey, Splat! How’s it going, Splat?”
;^)
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