A man fell two miles while skydiving in New Zealand after his parachutes failed to open. The expert jumper landed in a blackberry bush and survived. (MSNBC)
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Oh My God This is so funny and cool at the same time. This guy must be one of the luckiest human alive. Don’t try this at home… I suppose?
And they caught it on video! I saw on tv, a video taken by his jumping partner. Although it looked to me like there was a small chute that was open above him (maybe the remnants of the thing that didn’t open), you could see him plummeting, and then he waved cos he thought he was dead. Then you see him laying in the blackberry bush unconscious, but alive! maybe it;’s on youtube?…
hint: if you see a URL address going off the page, just place your cursor over the top of the link, triple click, which usually — at least for the mac — highlights the entire line of type, then, COPY and paste into browser (you don’t have to see the end of the line of text, clicking 3 times will highlight it all for you to copy.
Oh My God
This is so funny and cool at the same time. This guy must be one of the luckiest human alive. Don’t try this at home… I suppose?
And they caught it on video!
I saw on tv, a video taken by his jumping partner. Although it looked to me like there was a small chute that was open above him (maybe the remnants of the thing that didn’t open), you could see him plummeting, and then he waved cos he thought he was dead. Then you see him laying in the blackberry bush unconscious, but alive! maybe it;’s on youtube?…
found the video
its located here:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/mos/skydiver.html?in_article_id=435694&in_page_id=1990&in_a_source=
Thanks for the link
Riveting!!! yikes, what a trip!
Here’s the link again
If the above didn’t work for you, try this shortened one to the same place:
http://tinyurl.com/24ym29
hint: if you see a URL address going off the page, just place your cursor over the top of the link, triple click, which usually — at least for the mac — highlights the entire line of type, then, COPY and paste into browser (you don’t have to see the end of the line of text, clicking 3 times will highlight it all for you to copy.
your tip of the day…
🙂