If it were an SD card, you betcha. If it were a Micro SD card, heck I've passed bigger than that after an all night Mexican Food jag.
Posted on 02/08/2014 2:54:10 AM PST by rickmichaels
CHILLIWACK, B.C. — A former British Columbia hang-glider pilot whose passenger fell 300 metres to her death during a flight that was an anniversary gift pleaded guilty Friday to criminal negligence causing death.
William Jon Orders was charged in the death of 27-year-old Lenami Godinez-Avila, who plunged from Orders’ hang glider shortly after takeoff during a flight above B.C.’s Fraser Valley on April 28, 2012.
Orders was also charged with obstruction of justice over allegations he swallowed a memory card that may have contained video of the incident. It wasn’t immediately clear what would happen to that charge.
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Swallowed a memory card? That’s gotta hurt in passing. /sarc.
Canada ping
I used to hanglide all over that area, and I never had a problem, because I followed the rules. One rule and perhaps the biggest one is always do a “hang check” before you take off. They would of caught that then had they done that.
Something the story justhappens to mention in passing --
If it were an SD card, you betcha. If it were a Micro SD card, heck I've passed bigger than that after an all night Mexican Food jag.
I’m surprised he didn’t use the drug/pot defence... He must have been higher than a kite when he swallowed that memory card literally and figuratively.
BTW - Tragic incidents of this sort are sure to increase in the pot smoking states of Colorado and Washington. That’s the problem with pot, you tend to forget about hooking up safety harnesses and such.
Canada Ping!
“Swallowed a memory card? That’s gotta hurt in passing. “
I think it all would’ve worked out in the end.
I pity the CIS tech collecting the evidence...
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