Big Whipper

[Dru]

Bigger than Layton's by quite a bit. Bigger than Stefan's. Bigger than Annas.

 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1674728

[RobBob]

Did anybody ever see that home video of the guy that spun in hard into a beanfield due to a malfunctioning chute? He corkscrewed in, his videocam was hanging, and you could see the ground coming up fast, and Wham! At first you see the world on its side for a couple of seconds, then some movement, then its bouncing around, while the guy screams "I *&%ng made it!"

Great footage.

[RobBob]

"Flood Protection!"

 

[ 11-05-2002, 01:37 PM: Message edited by: RobBob ]

[thelawgoddess]

good reason to never trust your falls to just two pieces of pro.

[Dru]

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Originally posted by thelawgoddess:

good reason to never trust your falls to just two pieces of pro.

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But I equalized em with a cordellette!!!

[Dru]

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Originally posted by RobBob:

Did anybody ever see that home video of the guy that spun in hard into a beanfield due to a malfunctioning chute? He corkscrewed in, his videocam was hanging, and you could see the ground coming up fast, and Wham! At first you see the world on its side for a couple of seconds, then some movement, then its bouncing around, while the guy screams "I *&%ng made it!"

Great footage.

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A friend of mine made a video for his film and video class that was supposed to be about paragliding with him as the hero.

Instead it was about him breaking his leg on landing! I think it was unintentionally a much better film especially his blissed out gaze when the ambulance arrives with the Nitrous and he takes a big huff.

[rbw1966]

You canucks know how to party! Nitrous on board your ambulances? Thats beautiful.

[RobBob]

Was his name Knoxville?

[Dru]

The Whistler Ski Patrol used to carry Nitrous but they stopped cause the tanks were always empty by the time they got to the victim

[JoshK]

"Another Yugoslav holds the record for surviving a fall from the greatest altitude without a parachute. Air hostess Vesna Vulovic plunged 33,330 feet into a snowbound forest in Czechoslovakia in 1972 when the airliner she was on exploded.

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DAmn!

[Dru]

Rock Empire should make a harness called the Vesna.

[vegetablebelay]

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Originally posted by JoshK:

"Another Yugoslav holds the record for surviving a fall from the greatest altitude without a parachute. Air hostess Vesna Vulovic plunged 33,330 feet into a snowbound forest in Czechoslovakia in 1972 when the airliner she was on exploded.

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DAmn!

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Talk about bouncing a Czech! **

 

** plagerized from another board.

[Thinker]

11/05/2002

 

By RAY LANE / KING 5 News

 

It was an awesome sight Tuesday in the shadow of Mount Rainier as a helicopter lifted a horse to safety after the animal had falled 200 feet into a ravine.

Mikey is airlifted to safety.

“It looked a little bit different, it looked a little bit strange but the animal didn’t move, one quick kick as we lifted off the ground, and then I think the tranquilizer took effect. They gave it just prior to me arriving,” said pilot Dan Uttecht.

 

Once on the ground, the horse named Mikey slowly started shaking off the affects of the tranquilizers.

 

Mikey had become separated from some other horses late Monday. After a handler had found him and started walking him out of the woods, Mikey fell off a cliff, plunging 200 feet, tumbling and rolling into a ravine.

Barry Sader was walking Mikey when the horse fell.

“He just lost his footing on a narrow trail and went over the side. It was a long ways down,” said Mikey’s owner, Ron Engle.

 

Barry Sader was walking Mikey to safety when he fell.

Mikey was on his feet in no time.

“The most helpless, terrifying thing to see in my entire life," said Sader, fighting back tears. "Because it’s just like seeing a dear friend go over, and there’s not a thing you can do.“

 

“It’s amazing … the terrain is near vertical, and that there wasn’t obvious broken bones or fractures,” said Dan Hudson, Pierce County Sheriff’s Dept.

 

Multimedia KING 5's Ron Lane reports Rescue teams stayed with the horse until Tuesday morning’s flight.

Mikey's owner will pay for the vet bills and the use of the rescue helicopter.

[CraigA]

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Originally posted by RobBob:

Did anybody ever see that home video of the guy that spun in hard into a beanfield due to a malfunctioning chute? He corkscrewed in, his videocam was hanging, and you could see the ground coming up fast, and Wham! At first you see the world on its side for a couple of seconds, then some movement, then its bouncing around, while the guy screams "I *&%ng made it!"

Great footage.

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I saw that and it WAS AMAZING! Talk about must be living right.

[Dru]

Did they name Mikey after Gauthier?

[freeclimb9]

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Originally posted by Thinker:

Mikey's owner will pay for the vet bills and the use of the rescue helicopter.

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Will that be more than the cost of a bullet?

[D-dog]

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Originally posted by freeclimb9:

Will that be more than the cost of a bullet?[/QB]

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The bullet is for you, I assume?

 

Peace,

 

D-d0g

[RobBob]

I can hear my mama now. "You mean your gonna pay that much just to keep an old _____ alive?" (insert dog, cat, horse, pig, etc. into blank)

[iain]

could nitrous oxide be any worse for your body? that "fun" tingling is your brain screaming for air. what a stupid habit.

[Dru]

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Originally posted by iain:

could nitrous oxide be any worse for your body? that "fun" tingling is your brain screaming for air. what a stupid habit.

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well stick to shrooms then party pooper.

[iain]

Escalante Canyon/Canyonlands/Zion/Bryce UT + quality fungus = mind-blowing experience. Try it.

[layton]

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Bigger than Layton's by quite a bit

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????. Did I fall somewhere.????