Billboard Incident?

[BigM 2]

I am trying to establish if the incident reported to me is in fact true, and if so what were the circumstances.

It was reported to me that on Tuesday, November 22 a skydiver was seen dangling from a billboard along side of Interstate 77 somewhere north of Columbia, SC. There were fire and rescue vehicles at the scene. Does anyone know anything about this and can clarify / fill in the blanks.

Blue 111-
Jeff

"When I die, I want to go like my grandmother, who died peacefully in her sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car."

[noluckned 0]

I saw it on weird news from fark.com, sadly the link is dead so I cant post it.


Anyway what it was was an advertising stunt. Hanging from the billboard by a parachute and harness was a mannequin dressed in nothing less than a Gorilla suit.

The emergency services must have been there to help the motorists who got into accidents while rubbernecking at the billboard.

That was why it was posted on fark in the first place, because of the accidents it caused.

People are weird.

It also seems that they expect a parachute hung on a billboard to be the real thing!!

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[BigM 2]

Here's a link for it. (with video)

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4156406

I am truely glad it wasn't a situation where a jumper got hurt. It being a Tuesday, all I could think of was a demo gone wrong or possibly a military operation. Thanks for helping clear this up.

Blue 111-
Jeff

"When I die, I want to go like my grandmother, who died peacefully in her sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car."

[nicrussell 0]

I was thinking, bad spot, poor piloting skills or a reall bad atempt at a SL, (how many loops do I need in the break cord, hahaha!!!)