Had two small kids, but no problem with selfishly pursuing his death-defying hobby.
Posted on 03/25/2021 3:35:30 PM PDT by simpson96
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Lexi Bradshaw remembers Timothy "Tim" Ackerman as a thrill-seeker who loved being a dad.
Ackerman, a 31-year-old Panama City Beach resident and Bradshaw's ex-husband, died Sunday evening during a BASE jump from the 23rd floor of the Sunrise Beach Resort on Front Beach Road, according to the Panama City Beach Police Department.
Authorities suspect his parachute malfunctioned as he fell.
Timothy "Tim" Ackerman, a 31-year-old Panama City Beach resident who died in a BASE jumping accident Sunday evening, is seen with his 10-year-old daughter, Evie, and his 8-year-old son, Grayson.
"He 100% would not have done this if he thought for a second it wouldn't end well. It was not on purpose," said Bradshaw, 32, also of PCB. "He was happy, he was full of life (and) he sort of lived every day to the fullest as much as he could. He loved his friends and he loved his children more than anything in the world."
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"He was a great friend, he was a great dad and he was just an amazing person," she said. "I think he just wanted to make his mark and do something amazing and out of the ordinary and he did. It just didn't go how he had planned."
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Had two small kids, but no problem with selfishly pursuing his death-defying hobby.
Splat!
I remember years ago there was a cat in Cincinatti who made close to 25+ jumps off the skyscrapers downtown befor they finally caught him. never heard what the sentebce was though...
That's got to be quite a moment.
At least the feelings of embarrassment and regret and beating up on yourself don't last very long.
wasn’t the fall that killed him it was the sudden stop.
Do you know what Geronimo yells when he jumps from a condo? MEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee
"...base-jumping off a 23-story building..."
“...he was full of life...”
Not anymore............
Didn’t know Panama City had building large enough to base jump from.
At least he died doing what he loved.
Dumb*ss.
Covid claims another.
Is it true that during a fall you suffer a massive heart attack out of fear and panic before hitting the ground?
Crazy stuff in that locale..a couple of teenage girls from Indiana got severely injured when their parasail went awry and they crashed into a parking lot.
Millennials
No, this guy died of COVID.
Physics hates us.
There are certain things you give up once you have children; BASE jumping off a building is one of them.
Sometime in the early 90s, don’t remember where, some skydiving instructor made his fifth or sixth jump of the day and forgot to put on his parachute. The news showed his helmet-cam footage all the way to the ground.
Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in the Galaxy.
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