I Bet This Guy Needed To Change His Shorts! - Page 2

**Bwana** · 12-22-2006, 04:12 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16313217/?GT1=8816

Wow

A skydiving instructor in New Zealand escaped death by landing in a blackberry bush after his parachute failed during a 15,000-foot free-fall last week, according to reports.
Michael Holmes, 25, of Britain spun out of control when his main parachute apparently became tangled.
“When the second parachute didn’t open, I realized it was all over,” he told The Times of London from his hospital bed. “I was going to die. You don’t have much time to say goodbye.”

“The next thing I saw were friends, firemen, ambulances and police dogs,” he added.
Holmes survived the fall by landing in shrubbery less than 300 feet from a parking lot near Lake Taupo, the largest lake in New Zealand, suffering a punctured lung and a broken ankle.
Holmes, who was wearing a helmet-mounted video camera, was taping a group of 10 people from Taupo Tandem Skydiving when the mishap occurred, according to The Age, an Australian news Web site.
The entire plunge, including the landing, was captured on videotape.
John Siddles, a witness, told London’s Daily Telegraph: “One of the skydivers coming down was going round and round, and he looked like he was all tangled up or something.”

The Daily Telegraph quoted the manager of the skydiving center, Hamish Funnell, as saying that Holmes was in good spirits at the hospital, “cracking jokes and hassling the nurses.”
Police and the New Zealand Parachute Industry Association are investigating the incident.

cheeeefs · 12-22-2006, 06:06 PM

this is an example of someone who followed GoChief's advice.

He looked busy every time Jesus came by, and it looks like it got him saved.

PastorMikH · 12-22-2006, 06:26 PM

No way would I choose to land in a blackberry bush when there's a lake just 300 feet away.

'Course, then again, being in austrailia, there could be crocks in the lake. Perhaps the blackberry bush wasn't such a bad idea after all.

DJJasonp · 12-22-2006, 06:27 PM

I wonder if the videotape survived his crash...?

I'd like to see the tape.....it would remind me of all the reasons why I would never jump out of a perfectly operational plane.

**Dartgod** · 12-22-2006, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

You or I would have a better shot at hitting the Powerball while getting serviced by three super models...

So you're telling me there's a chance?

**Bwana** · 12-22-2006, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Dartgod

So you're telling me there's a chance?

Heh! There is ALWAYS a chance but..................

StcChief · 12-22-2006, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by PastorMikH

No way would I choose to land in a blackberry bush when there's a lake just 300 feet away.

'Course, then again, being in austrailia, there could be crocks in the lake. Perhaps the blackberry bush wasn't such a bad idea after all.

At the speed he as falling the lake would have been like hitting concrete

Mecca · 12-22-2006, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by StcChief

At the speed he as falling the lake would have been like hitting concrete

Yea some people don't get that......water has surface tension. If you hit it at a high speed it's like hitting the ground.

PastorMikH · 12-22-2006, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by StcChief

At the speed he as falling the lake would have been like hitting concrete

DIVE MAN! DIVE!!!

12-22-2006, 04:12 PM
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12-22-2006, 06:06 PM	#16
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12-22-2006, 06:26 PM	#17
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12-22-2006, 06:27 PM	#18
DJJasonp My work speaks for itself!!! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: So Cal Casino cash: $-1874800	I wonder if the videotape survived his crash...? I'd like to see the tape.....it would remind me of all the reasons why I would never jump out of a perfectly operational plane. __________________ Its easier to fool a man, than to convince a man he's been fooled.
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