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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The FAR’s set pack opening altitude for C and D license holders at 2,000’ (AGL) for a reason.
“”I think he just wanted to make his mark “
Mission accomplished.
My dad was a paratrooper. Our family went to see him jump at his military base. I assume it was Fort Bragg because we lived in Fayetteville at the time. My dad waved his arms and legs so we’d be able to see him. Unfortunately, one of the paratroopers “streamered” (chute didn’t open) and fell to his death. They set off a smoke flare so no one could see the grisly aftermath. This was in the early sixties. My dad and an uncle were both paratroopers and would joke about streamers. Probably gallows humor to disguise their uneasiness about it possibly happening to them one day.
Not exactly a “great Dad” if he would risk his life in such a manner and leave his children without a father.
We were on a trip to New Zealand about 1997 when the desk clerk at the hotel we were staying in mentioned that they had an instructor who gave rap jumping lessons off of the side of the building. None of us had ever heard of it. It is not quite as dangerous as base jumping.
He fought gravity but gravity always wins.
Gravity sucks
Extreme decelleration and accompanying destructive G forces.
“Had two small kids, but no problem with selfishly pursuing his death-defying hobby.”
Some people simply don’t feel things the way most of us do. They don’t feel pain, or joy. It takes a huge amount of “input” for them to feel like they’re alive. There’s usually a correlation to the amount of nerves they have, and a representative sample can be taken off their tongue. The number of taste buds has a direct correlation to the number of nerves. People with very low numbers tend to drink more alcohol, are more likely to smoke and/or use drugs, and, they are more likely to race cars, get in fights, parachute jump, etc.
I was in a hospital room once with a man who had experienced a huge stroke. He literally spent every waking moment trying to (ahem...) achieve “satisfaction.” My doctor said that so much of his brain was dead he was desperately trying to feel something...anything. He managed to seriously hurt himself, and he got a look on his face like he really liked it. (I called the nurse and they put him in restraints. I felt sorry as he was probably better off hurting himself than being retrained.)
We have no idea what drives people. But, I have a great sympathy for people and try never to judge. The longer I live, and the more that happens to me, the more I appreciate what others have to contend with. (I cried because I had no shoes and then I met a man who had no feet.)
That’s what can happen when you jump off a 23 Story building.
Does this make him an official candidate for the 2021 Darwin Award?
Uh, no. A great dad would have given up this hobby until his kids were grown.
Walter: If I'm gonna live here, there's gonna be some conditions
Hub: conditions?
Walter: No more dangerous stuff. No more fighting teenagers. No airplanes. More vegetables, less meat
-Second Hand Lions
I hope his kids have better caretakers left than this nitwit. Feel bad for his kids and family.
You can’t fix stupid.
“...but it sounds like he may have loved what he was doing in life more than he loved his own kids.”
Or his wife. When they say “ex husband” I’m guessing they mean divorced, and not this more recent event.
You think he would have liked to have gotten a ‘do over’?
Just another GoFundMe
Gravity - It’s the Law!
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