I have heard rumours of a fat guy belly flopping from the highest diving board in the swimming pool and having his belly split on impact since I was a kid. Is this a common ‘urban legend’, has it ever happened and is it even theoretically possible?
Heh, that same rumor floated around here when I was a kid. AFAIK it’s still making the rounds. It took me until high school to figure out the story was (very likely) baloney.
Obviously this topic is either completely boring to the majority or there isn’t anyone qualified to answer this! I suspect (as you do) that this is a load of tripe but I do wonder whether there has ever been even a single recorded incident of this happening or whether it is even possible? What would happen if you belly flopped from say a couple of hundred feet? I really, really need to know as I called bullshit on this when a friend brought it up and now need facts to back up my call. Please help!
It can’t have any more impact on the body than hitting a hard flat surface in like manner. Broken bones, severe bruising, even crushed organs are plausible. But how many reports are there of anyone’s body actually splitting open from a fall of that distance? None, I suspect.
hee hee 
Damn! I didn’t even see the tripe/stomach joke here…