davidlayne 5 #1 April 2, 2009 Give me a fitting caption for this hapless student.I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #2 April 2, 2009 "How to become a fried-to-shit dude" "Maybe I should have taken up bowling""Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bozo 0 #3 April 2, 2009 QuoteGive me a fitting caption for this hapless student. "feet and knees together....feet and knees together" bozo Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 0 #4 April 2, 2009 "Those power lines suddenly appeared RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!!" "Lutz Part II" "So what I forgot my TomTom" "Even Apeldoorn bellen" (sorry, Dutch joke ) ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
councilman24 36 #5 April 2, 2009 "Sparky"I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuckakers 369 #6 April 2, 2009 Quote Give me a fitting caption for this hapless student. "Hey, how'd I get stuck on this electric pole? And how did this thread end up in the History and Trivia section?"Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,089 #7 April 2, 2009 From a photo series in a Parachutist many years ago: "There I was, skydiving hard" Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
muff528 3 #8 April 2, 2009 "I wish Acme Electric Cooperative would buy a bucket truck. This shiit's gettin' old!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JSBIRD 1 #9 April 2, 2009 That guy had madskillz! Try and land up there without injury, and put your slider on the very top of the pole as well! When I flew by on final with the jumpmaster riding down with me, I couldn't believe what I saw when I passed that pole...I even went around again so Mike Igo could see where his student had landed! Thanks for posting that pic David! BASE359 "Now I've settled down, in a quiet little town, and forgot about everything" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #10 April 3, 2009 Cost of landing...no charge.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zoobrothertom 5 #11 April 3, 2009 Quote Cost of landing...no charge. I think we have a winner with this caption!! Drive to the DZ - $20 First Jump Course - $125 First Jump Landing - No Charge! Another priceless Master Card moment! ____________________________________ I'm back in the USA!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #12 April 3, 2009 Under the old round canopies this sort of thing happened quite often. I remember when Fred Sands went through two power lines under a round reserve, he touched one line but not the other. Then things shorted out somehow, and all the power went off on that side of town. I met another jumper who hit the power lines under a ram air canopy. He almost died. He went blind for a while, with numerous other physical problems. He has a big round scarr where his wrist watch burned a hole into his wrist. His nick-name was Sparky after that.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #13 April 3, 2009 Bill Booth has an awesome story posted in the Scary Stories thread on here about two paracommander jumpers (I think) who got their bridles entangled while making a fly-by past each other. They went into a spinning configuration and got hung up on high voltage lines. Very entertaining story! Look it up!"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #14 April 3, 2009 Pay phone provided by "Green Acres" communication. ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Niki1 1 #15 April 3, 2009 QuoteGive me a fitting caption for this hapless student. Regular or Extra Crispy?Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nutz 0 #16 April 3, 2009 Is that Peanut? "Don't! Get! Eliminated!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davidlayne 5 #17 April 3, 2009 Is that Peanut? laugh] [/;)][/;)]I don't care how many skydives you've got, until you stepped into complete darkness at 800' wearing 95 lbs of equipment and 42 lbs of parachute, son you are still a leg! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skypuppy 1 #18 April 3, 2009 "Hey, how'd I get stuck on this electric pole? And how did this thread end up in the History and Trivia section?" He must be dead, so it's history....If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lodestar 0 #19 April 6, 2009 How about changing his name to "Lucky" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airgord 1 #20 April 6, 2009 Wishing he was *anywhere* but here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #21 April 8, 2009 "Intentional water power line landing 101" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deci 0 #22 April 8, 2009 The lines have an orange marker on them, which means they are really close to the strip. Putting out students with a landing area that close to power lines is just dumb.CSPA D-1046 TI Coach2 RiggerA JM SSI SSE GCI EJR Canadian 102-way record holder bard.ca Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,040 #23 April 8, 2009 Hi david, Re: hapless student Back in the Summer of '64 with a grand total of 20 jumps behind me, I entered my first competition jumping a candy-stripe double-L; I was happy just to make the field on my three jumps. Another guy competing was a Kiwi, named Keith something, who had immigrated to Canada. On one of his jumps he landed on very the top of a telephone pole. Just as his canopy started to collapse, he stepped off of the pole and the canopy had just enough time to re-inflate and land him OK. About 10 years later I ran into him at a party in Tiburon, CA and we got talking about that jump. At that same party we got talking about a contest down in Ashland, OR in the Fall of '64. Jim Lowe hade just returned from visiting his family in West ( by gahd ) Virginia and had brought back a gallon of moonshine. Lowe was showing us how you had to hoist it up onto your shoulder to take a swig. Joe Brockway ( D-394 ) hoists the jug up rather vigorously and breaks Keith's nose in the process. Fun days all around, JerryBaumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JSBIRD 1 #24 April 8, 2009 QuoteThe lines have an orange marker on them, which means they are really close to the strip. Putting out students with a landing area that close to power lines is just dumb. The marker balls you see in the pic are about one half mile from the intended landing area. All the other students on the load landed as instructed. If you've never seen a student land 1/2 mile from their intended landing area, stick around...you obviously haven't been skydiving long enough. BASE359"Now I've settled down, in a quiet little town, and forgot about everything" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
regulator 0 #25 April 9, 2009 That reminds me of the 40 year old virgin when he was with the drunk girl that made him blow into the breathylizer in her car. She fell asleep at the wheel and smoked 4 cars and spun a 360 and woke up and said...that fucker came out of nowhere! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites