Maybe he should take a rig along

[Zing 2]

Another great bit of journalism. I found this on the Associated Press news wire.

REYNOLDS FEARS FLYING AFTER NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE


VAN WILDER star RYAN REYNOLDS is terrified of flying after he went sky-diving and his parachute failed to open. The 30-year-old was traumatised by the incident and has found it hard to step onto an airplane ever since. He explains, "When I was 17 years old, I took a skydiving course and it was just awful, every second of it was just truly horrendous. "On my 13th jump, I jumped out of the plane and my chute failed. It came out the wrong way, I had to pull the reserve. "I got down on the ground, removed my urine-spackled jumpsuit and threw it at the guy and got in my car and drove extremely slowly home. It was the worst. Now I get on planes and I can't do it anymore. "The first thing that I think about when I get in the aircraft is I look around at all the people and think, I'm gonna die with these people. I think I should get to know everyone before we die.'"


18/01/2007 20:24

Zing Lurks

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Another great bit of journalism. I found this on the Associated Press news wire.

REYNOLDS FEARS FLYING AFTER NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE


VAN WILDER star RYAN REYNOLDS is terrified of flying after he went sky-diving and his parachute failed to open. The 30-year-old was traumatised by the incident and has found it hard to step onto an airplane ever since. He explains, "When I was 17 years old, I took a skydiving course and it was just awful, every second of it was just truly horrendous. "On my 13th jump, I jumped out of the plane and my chute failed. It came out the wrong way, I had to pull the reserve. "I got down on the ground, removed my urine-spackled jumpsuit and threw it at the guy and got in my car and drove extremely slowly home. It was the worst. Now I get on planes and I can't do it anymore. "The first thing that I think about when I get in the aircraft is I look around at all the people and think, I'm gonna die with these people. I think I should get to know everyone before we die.'"


18/01/2007 20:24

Did Lutz cahnge his name?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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[Squeak 17]

that's a good thing, one less tosser at the DZ

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removed my urine-spackled jumpsuit a

OMG, that is hilarious. Guess he wasn't cut out for our sport, eh?

BTW, must be pretty thick urine to "spackle." Dude needs to drink more water or he's gonna get a kidney stone.

[Unstable 8]

He must have liked it at one point - not every student gets to 13 jumps.....

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Every student is scared shitless for at least the first 20 jumps. I look back and can remember driving to the DZ and as soon as I made the last turn I would hope for a windy day so they wouldn't let me jump. After about 20-25 jumps it went away. The only thing I thought about was my parachute opening and if a student has a mal during the scared period I would think they would stop. I have seen a lot of students get scared and quit. I don't blame the guy, most of us who jump have a little bit more push to get us past that point. If you think about it, most skydivers are very successful people that push themselves that little bit in life.

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