[airborne]

So he jumped into a heavily forested area at night and decided to carry his parachute out of the woods?

Not likely.

[hecticskeptic]

So he jumped into a heavily forested area at night and decided to carry his parachute out of the woods?
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Kept it as a souvenir? Future bragging rights? Was it cold and he ended up using it for a while to keep warm while he was getting out of the forest and then decided “heck, I may as well keep it?”

[CottonBall]

“So he jumped into a heavily forested area at night and decided to carry his parachute out of the woods?”

It may have been a brilliant plan, made it harder to track him