Ankles Away! Skydiver Loses Legs in Midair

Under canopy, skydivers generally drop 16 feet per second.

What happened to the other 14 feet?

What?

That made me laugh! :smiley:

I saw the article too and thought it was one of the scariest things I had ever read. I can’t even imgagine having my legs chopped off, being alive and landing.

I’ve always wanted to sky dive once, but now, not so much.

I see nothing funny about this.

Signed,

Joe Guillotine

Two thing fall out of the sky…
Bird shit, and fools!

A man, drinking Red Bull, was actually hit with one of Gus’s legs - little did he know it actually would “give him Wings”.

He’s just pulling your leg.

His family could sue, but they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.

So did he (with a speed of, say, 15mph) strike the plane? Or did the plane (speed of around 80mph) strike him?

Did the pedestrian strike the car, or the car strike the pedestrian?

You gotta love the way reporters think about things.

I’m betting that the Hokey Pokey isn’t played at his wake.

Chute him.

She’s broken every bone in her body skydiving and still thinks its safer than driving?

Than driving on this particular golf course, yes.

Possibly even safer than putting.

Say, you’ve never driven with me!

Smitty Werbenyeggermanjenson, in case ya hadn’t noticed, you’ve fallen in with a bad, bad crowd.

Remind me to stay inside when she’s out driving, then!

It’d take too long. They’d put the left leg in, they’d take the left leg out, they’d put the left leg in and they’d shake it all about…

Ouch.

But really is it expected that the pilot would make his descent through the same airspace where the jumpers are falling? Because that, or having been blown WAY off target by a freak wind, are the only ways I can see that you can get sickled by a wing or Osterized by a propeller after you’ve already opened the chute (getting clotheslined by the tail or a strut immediately after exiting the door, that I can understand much easier…). My instinct would be to turn at right angles and make a wwiiiidddeee arc way upwind from where you let them go.

On second thought, Gus was probably a regular skydiver. It was how he got his kicks.
He liked the way that the adrenaline rush kept him on his toes.
But skydiving is expensive, so it’s fortunate that he had a wealthy friend to foot the bill.
I mean, without the sobering influence of regularly jumping out of an airplane, people might have described Gus as a total heel.
okay, okay, i’ll stop now

Thought Race Bannon was Jonny Quest / Spindrift Island [book series precursor to JQ]

She didn’t mention the fine print. Driving a car is more dangerous than sky diving if you’re 1500 feet above the ground.

Everybody says Gus had always been a man with his feet planted firmly on the ground.