Donald Trump - freeflier or rw?

[Michele 1]

Ran across this story on the Drudge Report.....cracked me up.
"Trump wants parachute"
From CLODAGH HARTLEY
in Los Angeles
PROPERTY billionaire Donald Trump has been thinking of buying a PARACHUTE in the wake of last month’s attacks on skyscrapers.
Trump, 55 — owner of Manhattan’s glitzy Trump Towers — is one of scores of nervous New Yorkers to inquire about new “executive” chutes.
US makers Precision Aerodynamics say they have been besieged by calls about the £500 chutes — billed as a “last resort” for those trapped on top of burning high-rise buildings.
A rival, the Emergency Building Escape Parachute, will cost £1,575 or more — depending on the customer’s weight.
Precision Aerodynamics’ brochure says the chutes, developed after the September 11 atrocities, will open automatically.
It adds: “Simple steering and landing techniques can deliver you to the surface with confidence.”
But the American Parachute Industry Association said most people who used the products would DIE.
It is discouraging sales to office workers.
Spokesman Lowell Bachman said: “It’s just not a good idea.”
He suggested ropes and abseiling equipment might be a better choice."
Just thought it'd be good for a grin. Cies-
Michele
"What of the dreams that never die? Turn to your left at the end of the sky".
~e e cummings~

[yim666 0]

if he gets one, i hope his openings are more on heading than mine are under my saber... it would suck to yump out of the building and smash thru the window of a lower floor.

[freeflir29 0]

All the ones I have seen are rounds. There's a story on them at Headdown.net. That ought to be pretty tricky with all the crazy winds near high rises. Plus, you can't take a delay if it opens automatically. Might leave you with a long ride to the ground if you start 100 floors up. I guess I'll take that over trying to serve rubble 100 floors though. "The sky resembles a back lit canopy...with holes punched through it"- Incubus
Clay