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Skydiver recovering after falling onto California home
ktla ^ | Jason Sloss

Posted on 01/31/2023 4:09:57 PM PST by BenLurkin

“It felt like forever, just looking at him … We stood there in, like, shock just going, ‘He has to be dead,'” said Amber Sweet-Smith, who saw the injured skydiver in her yard in Oceanside moments after he fell last week.

“We usually hear the screaming or, you know, people laughing — just in the air, and he heard like an unusual scream, looked up, saw the guy and went, probably in his head, ‘Oh ****, he’s going to hit our house,'”

“It felt like the whole wall shook. … It was scary,”

“One of the other parachuter guys said he saw him and knew he was in trouble and landed in the street...so he was pretty helpful back there, too.”

“We’re just grateful that he’s fine, you know, a few broken bones. I mean, looking at him when he moaned, did the first moan and everything, it was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is a miracle,'”

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TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: oopsie; skydiver; skydiving
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1 posted on 01/31/2023 4:09:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Fer sure.


2 posted on 01/31/2023 4:13:56 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: BenLurkin
He plummeted to the ground after his parachute failed to completely open.
3 posted on 01/31/2023 4:23:14 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Mark

Like, totally.


4 posted on 01/31/2023 4:23:53 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Mark

Like, totally.


5 posted on 01/31/2023 4:23:53 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: BenLurkin

He’ll bounce back...


6 posted on 01/31/2023 4:24:19 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s nice of him to drop in like that


7 posted on 01/31/2023 4:27:07 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, man. Golfers, did you ever hit one in the rough? Of course you have. Baseball players, ever struck out? Bowlers, ever miss a 7-10 split? Sure, and do you hear them complaining? Of course not! But let one little parachute fail to open...


8 posted on 01/31/2023 4:31:45 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: BenLurkin

Oh wow man, he just like, fell…Tommy Chong.


9 posted on 01/31/2023 4:32:22 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Billthedrill

Skydivers are attacking Pinedale Shopping Mall. They’re dropping like bags of wet cement.


10 posted on 01/31/2023 4:35:13 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: BenLurkin

A very lucky guy. Hope he starts a different hobby after this.


11 posted on 01/31/2023 4:37:51 PM PST by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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To: FoxInSocks

During WW2 an American tail gunner exited his flaming bomber at 20,000 feet with no parachute at all. Landed in a French haystack and lived.


12 posted on 01/31/2023 4:38:26 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

With God as my witness, I thought parachutists could fly.


13 posted on 01/31/2023 4:39:46 PM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: BenLurkin

“If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you”.....


14 posted on 01/31/2023 4:40:31 PM PST by weeweed (Proud Costco University graduate)
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To: lowbridge

🎶It’s WKRP in Cincinnati🎶😁


15 posted on 01/31/2023 4:45:11 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: BenLurkin

I was a paratrooper in the Army (I did it for the extra $55 a month). Once I got out of the Army I never had the desire to jump from a plane again.


16 posted on 01/31/2023 4:45:19 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Turkey drop. Classic.


17 posted on 01/31/2023 4:46:21 PM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: BenLurkin

Do you know what Geronimo says when he jumps from an airplane ? MEEEEEEEeeeeeee


18 posted on 01/31/2023 4:46:52 PM PST by al baby (Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
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To: al baby

LOL


19 posted on 01/31/2023 4:47:21 PM PST by Allegra
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To: BenLurkin

I won’t jump out of perfectly good airplane.

I had a co-workrer once, a beautiful Russian girl who was excited for her 2000th jump and wanted me to come jump with her.

Nope, sorry not


20 posted on 01/31/2023 5:20:37 PM PST by algore
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