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First-time parachutist jumps to death after cutting own cords
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Posted by Steve White 2006-05-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 You'd think the comment that he didn't have to learn how to land might have been a clue....
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-02 00:43||   2006-05-02 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 There ARE cheaper ways to kill yourself, ya know.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-05-02 01:44||   2006-05-02 01:44|| Front Page Top

#3 My Momma told me never to jump out of a perfectly good Aircraft.
Posted by SPoD 2006-05-02 02:39|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]  2006-05-02 02:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Cheaper, perhaps, but few so reliable.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-02 07:05||   2006-05-02 07:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Gravity, why does it hate us?
Posted by Steve">Steve  2006-05-02 08:28||   2006-05-02 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Because it is an harsh mistresse?
Posted by Chumble Angaving2300 2006-05-02 10:00||   2006-05-02 10:00|| Front Page Top

#7 There was nothing to indicate he had any problems at all.

The jumpmaster check does not include brain housing group internals, just the helmet and chinstrap.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-02 10:40||   2006-05-02 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8  GEROMIN-OH-NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-05-02 11:24||   2006-05-02 11:24|| Front Page Top

#9 I dount he was worried about the cost of his suicide
Posted by Greamp Elmavinter1163 2006-05-02 14:14||   2006-05-02 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Gravity is a myth.....

... the earth sucks!
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-02 14:43||   2006-05-02 14:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Priceless, CF, priceless.
Posted by wxjames 2006-05-02 14:51||   2006-05-02 14:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, so much for the "accidental death, go out like a hero" plan.

If you want it to look like an accident, then tossing the helmet and hauling out the hedge pinkers isn't going to fool anyone. But the suicidal are rarely in a frame of mind to plan carefully, after all. It's all in the details and you've got to sane for that kind of planing.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-02 20:02||   2006-05-02 20:02|| Front Page Top

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