# Guinea Pig Paratrooper

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinea-pig-paratrooper/281170>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 22, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinea-pig-paratrooper/281170 "2004-12-22T16:14:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinea-pig-paratrooper/281170/1 "2004-12-22T16:14:48Z")

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Student tosses [guinea pig](http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1220pig-toss20-ON.html) tied to a parachute from a dorm window.

No true doper could possibly pit this act of scientific discovery. I mean, a guinea pig’s essential nature is to be tossed from a university window tied to a home made parachute, isn’t it?

Authorities are investigating the rumor that he was aiming for Richard Gere’s butthole.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinea-pig-paratrooper/281170/2 "2004-12-22T16:49:44Z")

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When my dad was in the National Guard in the early 1960’s, he served with an airborne unit that had a pet monkey as a mascot. The airborne guys decided if the monkey was going to be one of them, it needed to go all the way and earn its jump wings. So, they made a chute for it and took it on the jump.

Everything was going smoothly until the monkey looked up at it’s suspension lines and something in the monkey mind said _climb and escape_. The monkey climbed its lines and collapsed the canopy. After that things went poorly.