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NEWS GoPro captures woman’s terrifying 50-foot fall down Hawaii waterfall
New York Post ^ | 11 sept 2019 | Lee Brown

Posted on 09/13/2019 4:15:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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And the camera took a licking but kept on ticking...

John Cameron Swayze

1 posted on 09/13/2019 4:15:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Yeah, but strap it to the spinning prop of an outboard motor and see how it does! (Remember that commercial!?)


2 posted on 09/13/2019 4:17:44 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Butch: I’ll jump first.
Sundance: Nope.
Butch: Then you jump first.
Sundance: No, I said!
Butch: What’s the matter with you?!
Sundance: I can’t swim!
Butch: [laughing] Why, you crazy — the fall’ll probably kill ya!


3 posted on 09/13/2019 4:19:46 PM PDT by null and void (Genealogy is a funny thing. When you dig up your ancestors, you find...human beings.)
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re: “Heather Friesen, 26, had a GoPro strapped to her head as she fell down the sheer rocks at the Ka’au Crater Trail,”

We need a new category for Darwin Awards ...


4 posted on 09/13/2019 4:20:45 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The vid, at link, is crazy.

Glad she’s okay.

Blessed.


5 posted on 09/13/2019 4:21:16 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bobby.223

re: “Yeah, but strap it to the spinning prop of an outboard motor and see how it does! (Remember that commercial!?)”

John Cameron Swayze, Timex commercial, “Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”

Timex on an outboard motor:

https://youtu.be/_NHq3Yze6s0


6 posted on 09/13/2019 4:23:41 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I live less than a mile from there. Don’t remember this in the news.


7 posted on 09/13/2019 4:25:16 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Jane Long

You can even see the slick spot where she put her right foot just before she went.

Thank goodness she’ll be ok!


8 posted on 09/13/2019 4:26:29 PM PDT by moovova
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To: DUMBGRUNT

She slipped on the “blue stuff” ...


9 posted on 09/13/2019 4:27:57 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: moovova

She’s so lucky....she could’ve cracked her head open.


10 posted on 09/13/2019 4:29:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: kaehurowing

Watch the vid (at link). Incredible.


11 posted on 09/13/2019 4:30:18 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I did very something similar on an icy hill overlooking the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Cracked my skull good. In my defense I was 5 years old and not recording a go pro video.


12 posted on 09/13/2019 4:31:28 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Did she fill out the proper ID 10 T form?


13 posted on 09/13/2019 4:31:38 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: _Jim

I remember one, I think it was on the Ed Sullivan show, where it was done live. When he stopped the outboard and checked the prop, the watch was nowhere to be seen.

Only slightly flustered, he said, “Well, wherever it is, you know it’s still ticking.”


14 posted on 09/13/2019 4:32:10 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

She should find an engineer to marry and hope her kids turn out with average intelligence...


15 posted on 09/13/2019 4:32:17 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

There are some Ultra-High-Octane people out there, who require extreme circumstances before they really get excited.
I am not one of those people. At least not anymore.


16 posted on 09/13/2019 4:32:42 PM PDT by lee martell
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Holy crap! Is there anything that is not on the Internet? That was the commercial I remembered!


17 posted on 09/13/2019 4:35:37 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Jane Long
Watch the vid (at link). Incredible.

No thanks, not before bedtime.

I'll check back around breakfast. ;)

18 posted on 09/13/2019 4:39:50 PM PDT by Does so (To continue in English, press 2...)
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To: _Jim

Gotta hand it to Swayze for ad libbing his way through that. Ah, yes, the wonders of live television.


19 posted on 09/13/2019 4:45:57 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Wow, this woman is an idiot...


20 posted on 09/13/2019 4:48:39 PM PDT by Professional
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