Pregnant skydiver plunges 50mph face first and lives

[Gil]

Gil, you ol' codger. Just be glad it wasn't one of us who fell. I'd imagine myself being solely responsible for tickling the richter.

Amen, my Brother. Amen.

Ghost
I already said that I don't engage in the practive of jumping out of airplanes in flight. What more do you want?

My position is that a device that was devised as a means to save a pilot's life when his plane became unflyable, has become a toy.
I don't think anyone has jumped out of a plane and onto a bike, without a chute.

And while a lot of time goes into preparing to jump from a plane, if your preparations are faulty you may slam into the ground from a great height, and at great speed.

If you don't properly prepare to drive to work, you might have to change a tire, or you might coast to the side of the road because you ran out of gas.
You don't just get to pull over if your stuff don't work while skydiving.

 

[Ev0]

As can a car, bicycle, ice skating, deer hunting, paragliding, parachuting. . .

A malfunctioning ice skate can kill someone?

 

[Jay]

A malfunctioning ice skate can kill someone?

It could, in the same way you could kill yourself tripping over I guess.

 

[Ev0]

It could, in the same way you could kill yourself tripping over I guess.

It is possible, but it would have to be a bizarre fall, since it would have to cut an artery open. And there aren't any near the surface on your legs (to the best of my knowledge), so you'd have to fall and cut your wrist really. And that's with a really sharp blade too; from my experience with hockey skates, they really aren't all that sharp, although I think it would differ for different types of skates (speed skates I would expect to be extremely sharp).

Okay, back to studying for exams now... too much procrastination.

 

[Plague.Ghost]

A malfunctioning ice skate can kill someone?

Well, if the person using it chooses to. Just like with a car, bike, plane, gun etc.

My point, almost anything can go wrong with everything, and there's an inherent danger with every factor or mph you tack on to it, and the person the accident happens to is not necessarily stupid, dumb, or an idiot at all, but rather unlucky.

 

[Omnis]

My point, almost anything can go wrong with everything, and there's an inherent danger with every factor or mph you tack on to it, and the person the accident happens to is not necessarily stupid, dumb, or an idiot at all, but rather unlucky.

The tuna casserole commited suicide. How unfortunate.

 

[Jay]

It is possible, but it would have to be a bizarre fall, since it would have to cut an artery open. And there aren't any near the surface on your legs (to the best of my knowledge), so you'd have to fall and cut your wrist really. And that's with a really sharp blade too; from my experience with hockey skates, they really aren't all that sharp, although I think it would differ for different types of skates (speed skates I would expect to be extremely sharp).

Okay, back to studying for exams now... too much procrastination.

There tons more ways you just make up,

The skates wheel could come off causing you to fall on the road and get hit by a car. You could fall on something sharp and impale yourself, you could smash your head on something hard and if that doesnt kill you you may drown on your own fluids while unconscious etc etc.

Or maybe even, you could be in the aircraft in question with the skates and the wheel breaks off causing you to fall out the plane.

 

[NISMOskyline]

You mean you've never split your head from falling off a bike? Or you've never broken a leg or arm or anything?

ummm........no. Thank God I haven't, by the way.

And we're not talking injuries like that, we're talking 50+ MPH INTO THE GROUND. You don't just break something from that, you break EVERYTHING.

 

[Raghavan]

ummm........no. Thank God I haven't, by the way.

And we're not talking injuries like that, we're talking 50+ MPH INTO THE GROUND. You don't just break something from that, you break EVERYTHING.

Well, Gil was saying that that woman was stupid for wanting to try it again despite all her injuries and stuff.

 

[Gil]

If at first you don't succeed, perhaps skydiving isn't for you.

Thank you Raghavan for seeing my point.
I just feel like there is too much danger for skydiving to ever be for me.
Will I parachute from a plane that is on the verge of crashing? HELL YES!!!
But I prefer not to do such things for "fun".

I think that under the circumstances, if you have been lucky enough to cheat death, you should leave well enough alone. Going back out there and waving your middle finger under Death's nose, just doesn't seem prudent.
And doing a repeat of the thing that very nearly killed you could be classified as "waving your middle finger under Death's nose."

 

[Raghavan]

Thank you Raghavan for seeing my point.
I just feel like there is too much danger for skydiving to ever be for me.
Will I parachute from a plane that is on the verge of crashing? HELL YES!!!
But I prefer not to do such things for "fun".

I think that under the circumstances, if you have been lucky enough to cheat death, you should leave well enough alone. Going back out there and waving your middle finger under Death's nose, just doesn't seem prudent.
And doing a repeat of the thing that very nearly killed you could be classified as "waving your middle finger under Death's nose."

Some people maybe are more brave (or crazy?) to do stuff like that. I for one would love to try to skydive, and even if a parachute failure happened and i lived, i'd do it again for sure.
Just because they want to try it again doesn't make them stupid. Maybe you wouldn't do it, but we're not talking about what you'd do.

 

[Plague.Ghost]

Some people maybe are more brave (or crazy?) to do stuff like that. I for one would love to try to skydive, and even if a parachute failure happened and i lived, i'd do it again for sure.
Just because they want to try it again doesn't make them stupid. Maybe you wouldn't do it, but we're not talking about what you'd do.

Well it's not only that, but also the chances of it happening again. The chances alone are very few, but the chances of packing a parachute improperly twice is a 1 in a million. It's completely different from driving a car where getting in a serious accident is probably about 1 in 10.