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Army officer survives 3,500ft fall after parachute fails to open
Telegraph ^
| 11/14/2004
| Sean Rayment
Posted on 11/14/2004 7:53:26 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"...but I was experiencing an odd sensation. It wasn't exactly an out-of-body experience, but I certainly didn't feel connected to my body..."
No kidding!!!...
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posted on
11/14/2004 7:57:28 AM PST
by
baltodog
(Feel free to believe that you descended from monkeys. I'm not gonna' stop you.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Sudden deceleration syndrome.
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posted on
11/14/2004 7:58:37 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Personality shattered and horribly twisted, the humor flows out through the cracks.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
My immediate thought was 'Oh my God, I'm alive'.
That and a need for a change of underware.
One lucky guy, for sure.
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posted on
11/14/2004 7:59:59 AM PST
by
TomGuy
(America: Best friend or worst enemy. Choose wisely.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
His account makes you wonder whether people who are killed falling from great heights actually experience any pain. Most accounts by people who have survived suggest they don't.
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:00:40 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Funny that the UK paper thought it necessary to include a diagram of just what happens when someone's chute fails and they crash through a roof. It's as though they were trying to explain an eclipse of the moon, or floodgates on a dam.
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:02:19 AM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(Santorum 2008)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Might have been interesting to get the perspective of the Kenyans in their hut as Lieutenant Williams abruptly plunged headfirst through their ceiling.
To: baltodog
"It wasn't exactly an out-of-body experience, but I certainly didn't feel connected to my body..." That's the endorphins kicking in.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:02:45 AM PST
by
avenir
To: ElkGroveDan
No doubt. Some graphic designer must have had a slow day. It's like drawing a diagram of hitting yourself on the thumb with a hammer.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
When your number is not up, it's not up.
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:06:35 AM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; ChefKeith
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:07:45 AM PST
by
WestCoastGal
(At Darlington, you don't hit the wall, you kiss the wall. The Lady in Black stays puckered up!!!)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
He should be awarded the Wiley Coyote Acme Award.
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:08:05 AM PST
by
csvset
To: mark502inf
Might have been interesting to get the perspective of the Kenyans in their hut as Lieutenant Williams abruptly plunged headfirst through their ceiling."Where am I?"
"Earth."
(Eraser)
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:08:13 AM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The key to surviving a fall is to land with your entire body hitting the ground at the same time. This way the absorption of the impact is spread around your body and does not compact your spine.
Either that or find something to break your fall like Lt. Williams.
It is a miracle that he crashed into that hut.
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:08:47 AM PST
by
Xenon481
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Thank God for poorly built homes in Kenya.
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:09:49 AM PST
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Expect great things from this man. This was divine intervention
To: mark502inf
One Kenyan to another -
"I don't care what islam fanatics say - The British guys are coming...and they'e going to do whatever the coalition of the willing want to do!"
I think I'd be giving some very consideration as to what it is the Lord wanted me to be doing!
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:14:55 AM PST
by
Issaquahking
( Bush won, Arafat is dead! Life is good!)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
As a fellow jumper, I don't know why they didn't mention the state of his knickers. HEHEHE
Q6
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posted on
11/14/2004 8:15:48 AM PST
by
Q6-God
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