skygypsie 2 #51 February 25, 2015 ryoder ***Twardo, did Sam ever tell you about a demo jump years ago... he was flying a flag, the weight fell off, through a barn roof, killing a cow. ? Never thought to ask if that was on a Liberty Parachute Team / AirVenture Jump Damn. Worst story I'd heard was the pumpkin jump near Chicago that ended with the pumpkin punching a hole in someone's mobile home.At my DZ in IN, I heard a story of someone putting out an old military drop-test dummy, (~200#), which had a malfunction and went into a neighbors yard. They waited to see if anyone came out to check; No one did; So two guys scurried over and retrieved it. They reported it left a depression in the yard. I think I recall a mfgr in FL having a similar incident with a drop test dummy that impacted just outside the kitchen of one guys house, while his wife was standing at the kitchen counter. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abedy 0 #52 February 25, 2015 turtlespeed Let's just say that it was a very shitty landing. Woohoo. I didn't see it, actually but was told by a reliable source that a tandem student who made their jump at the neighbouring DZ was so scared (the TIs there were a very rough kind of folks, made bad jokes etc pp) that he soiled his pants and it became visible when they slide-landed. Eeks.The sky is not the limit. The ground is. The Society of Skydiving Ducks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rick 67 #53 February 25, 2015 BillyVance *** Damn. Worst story I'd heard was the pumpkin jump near Chicago that ended with the pumpkin punching a hole in someone's mobile home. That reminds me of the pumpkin drop accuracy competition at Mullin's DZ. It wasn't the year I participated but, one of his kids (now grown) waited a tad too long to drop his. Dad thought he had already dropped it and started banking a turn over the DZ facilities at 200 feet. That's when the kid lost the pumpkin out the door. Oops. Scored a bulls eye through the bathroom building roof. If the pumpkin had a diameter of 24.5", the hole was a perfect 24.75" in diameter! Luckily no one was in the women's bathroom at impact, but one lady had just opened the door about to enter when the thing hit. Fucking pumpkin just exploded. HUGE mess. pumpkin drop at Z-Hills several years ago. I had a small pumpkin in the top of my jump suit. Plan was to get the pumpkin out after opening, fly over the target at 1000' and drop the pumpkin. Well damn thing got pushed out by my chest strap on opening and just missed hitting the wing on one of the gliders parked next to the runway..You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #54 February 25, 2015 When I was first learning RW and going low, two instructors showed me how to de-arch to get back up. We promptly went up and I went low on their two way base-pin. I threw down a huge skinny-teenage kid de-arch and slammed into the 2 way from underneath, throwing them both into backloops. My head was down and I didn't even see what happened. . . After we landed they added "Oh yeah, turn sideways to the formation before you dearch." Considering all the dumb stuff I've done in freefall, I'm lucky not to have too many hugely embarrassing stories. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
