Friends and other miracles
He falls 12,000 feet with a partially opened parachute. The video of the fall is a little nauseating, he’s spinning pretty fast. His friend’s video shows the fall from above, and it’s a spectacular crash. In terms of his life, and his friends, this is a truly lucky man.
World exclusive skydiver video… watch the incredible footage here! | the Daily Mail
I’ve never parachuted, (and I’m not going to either), I just don’t need that much excitement in my life. I realize that crashes like this don’t happen very often, but that’s all that would be going through my mind as I prepared to jump. I’d likely have a heart attack before I got out of the plane.
While not in this class of accident, I have been in some fairly exciting horse wrecks. Unlike this gentleman, my friends (and family) never seem to jump in and lend a hand. Mostly they stand back and laugh. I’m sure they’d call for medical attention if it was needed, but sometimes the hysterical laughter is a little distracting. You’re trying your best to keep yourself and your horse in a nice vertical relationship (ground - horse - rider = good, ground - rider - horse = bad) and all you can hear is cackling. Of course some of my more infamous incidents happened in remote areas, so medical attention isn’t always an immediate option. I tore up my back while riding in the Pasayten Wilderness once and then had to get back on the horse and ride 18 miles to the truck. That’s one time a good friend parachuting to the rescue would have been welcomed.
h/t Boing Boing
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Wow,… Sounds like a harrowing experience, in a remote area! Interesting link.
Comment by Lee — March 2, 2007 @ 6:03 pm
That incident wasn’t as exciting as it might sound. Very unpleasant, but not too exciting. Exciting incident’s include things like hillsides starting to slide under your horse’s feet, or having your horse fall down an embankment, and things like that.
Comment by HDW — March 2, 2007 @ 9:36 pm
I’ve never felt in control when on a horse,… And they can sense it!
Comment by Lee — March 3, 2007 @ 9:05 am
I Love planes but what I Love even more, is staying In planes!!!
The only way this girl is going to volunteer to jump out of one is if it’s going down!!
As for horses, I have been lucky and have always been on top of one instead of the other way around! I hope my luck keeps up!!
Comment by Sage's Unicorn! — March 4, 2007 @ 7:02 am
Very, very true. As for planes going down, I’m staying on for the ride.
Comment by HDW — March 4, 2007 @ 7:39 am
Well, my rss feed says that there’s a ‘Monday open house’ post, but all I get is a 404 message….
Comment by jan — March 5, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
No point jumping out of a perfectly good plane. I for one am with you on that one. While the number of horse wrecks I’ve been in can be counted on one hand, I definitely feel your pain, seeing as the first thing I normally heard after the more spectacular ones was the voice of a trainer yelling “Well, whose fault was THAT?” Voice of experience speaking: statistically, the correct answer to that question is not usually “the horse.”
Comment by The Random Yak — March 6, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
Forgot to mention: I also learned the hard way that “the horse” is the wrong answer.
Comment by The Random Yak — March 6, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
With a few notable exceptions, I can usually categorize horse related injuries as “self inflicted”.
Comment by HDW — March 6, 2007 @ 3:45 pm