Bail-Out

Why is it so hard for people to see/realize that Jeb was wrong/stupid/and a has been and at the same time not see that Magot is a GOD
First of all he should NEVER laugh on TV, that laugh will make cream curdle.

Whens he gonna land this wingsuit?.....when he does that, as he says he will, (ha) i will give him cudo's.

Magot is my new hero because like it or not, he tells it like it is.

I have been a KC jumper for more than 20 years, but i align myself with no particular DZ for the reasons of KC ego's and KC politics. But i have a few questions on both sides of this story. See below...

First i would like to know what having a rating has to do with it as long as they are the DZO's and not the ones teaching a class?

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I have been sitting back and watching in utter disbelief for too long now regarding the antics surrounding the birth of my brother’s drop zone.
Let me go back a ways and tell you all what an amazing person my brother is.

Even though he is my little brother, he has always looked after and protected me in anyway that he could.
This is his nature. He is like this with everyone he comes into contact with.

If you know him, or have had the pleasure of meeting him, then you know exactly what I am talking about.

This has nothing to do with it. I have always taken care of my sister also....thats just a given, but i admire him for that.

Another thing that my brother is - is more passionate than anyone I have ever met.

Again...see above.

This passion blossomed when he discovered skydiving. I have never witnessed someone take to something the way he took to this sport.

It completely took a hold of every fiber of his being.

He focused virtually all of his time and energy in learning every aspect of this sport.

In what seemed like overnight his new found passion turned into a growing career.

He began learning the skills needed to be a videographer, packed up his bags leaving the place he grew up, Kansas City, and moved to New Jersey landing a job at Skydive Cross Keys.

Maybe he should have focused on the skills needed to own and run a drop zone in a area that had already forced the previous drop zone out.

Within months he was filming skydiving footage for CNN, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, and The David Letterman Show.

Again, very admirable and i applaud him for that.

I was absolutely amazed and so proud of what my little brother had accomplished.

As you should be.

During this time period, he had also relocated during the winters to work at a drop zone in Las Vegas where he learned to fly airplanes.

It was also at Cross Keys where he met someone as driven and passionate as him, his wife Joanna.

With the two of them as a team, and skydiving as one of their deepest bonds, they naturally wanted to take it to the next level.

For them, they wanted to see the birth of their own child, in this case being a drop zone that they created together.

They both decided to come back to where my brother truly called home to open their drop zone. They found the perfect location in Harrisonville.

I question this being the "Perfect" place because of what this city did with the previous DZ.

They had wonderful encounters with James, the manager of the airport where they are currently located.

James was very excited about the prospect of Paul and Jo opening their drop zone there. He wanted to lease them the main hangar at the airport.

Everything seemed to be going great for them.

Then out of courtesy, Paul contacted some of the surrounding drop zones to let them know that he was planning on opening a drop zone in Harrisonville and that he wanted to work with them so that everyone would benefit.

I would be interested in hearing what he said to them if you don't mind sharing.

Some drop zones gave Paul and Jo their blessings and were happy to work in harmony with them, while others took another path.

Can you state which ones approved and which ones did'nt?

Instead of getting back the same courteous gesture that Paul had put forth, these people began to show the worst in humanity that I have personally witnessed.

People from a select few other drop zones sabotaged the new dropzone's image by going door to door in Harrisonville, posing as concerned citizens distributing pamphlets about the sport of skydiving that made it seem like a sport for only the lowest degenerates of society.

They even had the nerve to put flyers on people’s cars while they attended a funeral.

I learned this from one of the alderman addressing the man who calls himself jumper410 as he ripped apart my brother and the sport of skydiving at a city council meeting.

That meeting was recorded so I encourage anyone interested to obtain a copy of what was said.

At this meeting, I watched Tommy Dolphin and Chris Hall, both dropzone owners in the KC area;
completely rip apart the safety of skydiving.

Chris Hall told the alderman that about 15-20 percent of his jumpers land off the airport, and that the city could expect higher numbers at Paul's drop zone due to the "small" landing area.

I have questions about the landing area also as that is where i jumped when i had just started jumping and i found it to be a very bad area for students to land in. Unless it has changed, which by the pictures i don't see any changes, it is indeed a scary area for students...not experianced jumpers. It had a row of trees on the East side, a very steep hill on the North side, a pond on the West side, and a Very Big Ditch on the South side that i have landed in myself when i first started jumping causing injury.

Mr. Dolphin told the council that he, like virtually all drop zone owners, had no insurance so even if someone tripped on the ground he could not be held liable.

They then went on about a horrific skydiving accident in Independence, Missouri that claimed the lives of skydivers, and that the same thing would happen in Harrisonville if my brother were allowed to open a drop zone there.

He very strongly encouraged the city of Harrisonville to add an insurance requirement to their lease that he knew was unobtainable.

This i simply do not believe since i know the owner of the previous DZ and know for a fact that this is what the city used to force them out, so i know this rule was already in affect.

What these people said through their words and the pamphlets to the citizens of Harrisonville gave them a morbidly distorted perception of the sport of skydiving and completely freaked them out.

These people were already freaked out because of the guy splattering all over the ground next to 71 HWY back in 95.

These despicable antics worked for now and Paul was denied the lease to the hangar at the airport due to the pleas from Mr. Dolphin and Mr. Hall.

This by the way is the facility that was described on my brother’s website, which was created when the hangar was virtually guaranteed to them.

It's never gauranteed until the name in on the dotted line.


This brings me to some of the most disgraceful aspects in human nature possible.

This guy, Jumper 410, who has tried everything to sabotage my brother’s dream, has the nerve to than talk about ethics in Kansas City and the falsities on my brother’s website when he was one of the main players in preventing the lease to go through.

Within weeks of my brother opening his drop zone, he was denied the lease to the hangar, had to purchase his own land so he could still operate, book a new plane because an “anonymous” source called and told the original plane owner that his plane would be compromised if it was leased to my brother,

then find a new plane, completely restructure how he would be able to setup the drop zone, buy a tent, RV, and place of operations all within weeks of opening day.

On top of this, during this period, we lost our grandfather and spent nearly a week in Iowa mourning with our family.

Sorry to hear that as i lost my father recently also, my sympathies to your entire family.


Well despite all of these obstacles, he managed to get his operations off the ground in such a short amount of time.
After all of this who can blame him for not having the time to get his website updated?

Again, he had the time to make it....i can't remember all the times i have been to the WFFC when they had advertized the Jet and it didn't show up. Now, mind you, it was a little different with me because i live so close and go every year anyway, and have had the opportunity to jump it 15 times anyway,but i can imagine how people from other countries and the East, or West coast think when they make their plans and spend their money to go and the Jet not be there. And then the conv, always had some excuse as to why it did'nt make it, but i remember reading a post made by the Company that owned the Jet (AmeriJet) stating that they had notified the WFFC months ahead that they would NOT be attending.

The bottom line is Jumper 410 and his cronies are in the truest sense evil, and have put a dark cloud over and completely smeared the sport of skydiving.

Everyone involved with that should be ashamed!!

Enough is enough!!!

I also have reservations as to if you are who you say you are, and i'll tell you why.
Actually for just a couple of reasons, and i may be totally wrong, but it is only what makes me wonder.

One of your post you stated that you were a teacher, but yet you spelled "Imposter" as "Emposter" and i don't think thats a mistake that a teacher would make.
Also in one post you referred to it as Sky Diving when every other time you have referred to it as Skydiving.
I would understand the mistake since you say you are not yourself a jumper if you had not capialized the "D". Otherwize i would have thought you accidentally hit the space bar in between sky and diver.