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to whom do you refer? your girlfriend or me? clarify if you would, before i set you staright, without actually have to. i have no issue with it. and if you were referring to your girlfriend, you have some issues that cannot be healed with Xenadrine. good luck. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

if he indeed persists in his quest, have him write in advance, his own epitaph, it's the least he could do for the loved ones he'll leave behind. remember: "Safety Is No Accident" i tell all the new jumpers, if you don't think it's safe...don't do it. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

it's human nature to look down upon "weight challenged" people. i've been on both sides of this fence, and i can tell you, weight does make a difference in people's attitudes of one another. do i think it's right? no, but on the other hand i think Anna Nichole Smith is disgusting. not because she's a "plus size" woman, but because she flaunts herself as if she were a 90 pound doll, that, and the fact she has no clue how to make a living other than suing her step son for her 91 year old dead husband's estate. well, i'm kind of getting off of the "weight issue" a bit! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

albatross: i read the first, and second, and your post on this thread, your mad because someone called you "shallow" well, it wasn't lindsey, so was rachael posting as you? are am i missing the boat here somewhere? it sounds to me like this is a personal issue between you, and your mate. in any event i know what both of you are going through. i'm 6' 3" at 240# i used to weigh in at 425# so i know a little something about weight control. neither one of you needs to be mad at each other, but consider the health issues of being overweight, type 2 adult onset diabetes, high blood pressure, etc...it's not good. i have to literally starve myself on a 2000 calorie a day diet to stay at my current weight, i road bike, mountain bike, and i weight train, plus i play my drums about 10 hours a week. staying healthy should not be an issue to argue over, but one which should unify the steps each of the two of you are taking to stay physically fit. i'm 43 years old, and a grandfather, live to be that old, stay fit for your families! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

please rethink your position in this matter. no matter what this sky diver is going to do, whether it is at your home dz, or not, we ALL should care about him, because he is "one of the family" it's attitudes like the above stated that are literally helping to raise the statistical incident levels. if we don't police ourselves, be rest assured someone, someday will do it for us, let's stay self regulated by helping each other make good decisions and stay safe. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

good luck! you'll enjoy being involved in law enforcement, don't stop at dispatcher, get your jailer's license, then your TECLOSE training! lot's of good vibes coming your way from Lee County! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

i won't even bother to mention what's in my arsenal. i guess me being from texas, i'd probably be considered a "dangerous and deranged" person. as far as the armored truck, i think, i know you'd have to have a Class 111 license to have one! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

that's a little harsh, isn't it Slappie? i mean if it happened, wouldn't it have been better kept to yourself, or possibly expressed to Ramon in a pm? what good is it to post that for all the dz crowd to see, unless it's vindictive. on the other hand, if you go to any dz just to jump with any one person all i can say is hmm........i'm not taking sides here, but there are a lot of free fliers out there that owe a lot to guys like Ramon for taking them off of student status, then to the "dark side" it's not at all uncommon for someone like him to feel burnt out from time to time. 3D has a good thing going here, and i, for one feel they will make the skies safer for all of us, my hat is off to them. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

at that point and time, take it up either with the S&TA, or the DZO, more often than not, they will not allow such a low time jumper to become a "potential statistic" on their drop zone. "It's All About Living" --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

at 185# witout gear, and 210# with gear he'd be at a 1.4:1 wing, bad decision. he needs to fly 1.0:1 no higher until he gets some jumps in. better safe than sorry, and if he jumps the 1.4:1 he will be sorry, if he makes it. tell him to do the right thing. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

a "total" malfuntion is when you deploy, you have NOTHING out. a pc in tow is a partial mal, same for a streamer, lineover, baglock, etc...let's say you go to deploy, and you experience a pc in tow? cutaway? it could turn out good, and it could turn out bad. one of two things could happen, you cut-away and deploy reserve, and d-bag stays in container, in which case it's a good thing. but if you deploy, and have a pc in tow, don't cut-away, and deploy reserve, reserve is deploying, all of the sudden your main decides it's going to deploy as well, and you haven't yet cut-away, ugly scenario, but possible, just some things to consider when initiating emergency procedures. in any event, constantly rehearse your emergency procedures for every scenario, read all you can, buy the sky diver's manuel and read it, research all you can, so when the time comes you'll be better informed as to what your options are. be safe, take care. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

oh god, i'm so hurt by what you said, next time i jump, i'm not going to pull. *sniff* *sniff* --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

http://www.relativeworkshop.com/ pop, check out this website. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

http://www.pisa.co.za/ check out their website, wonderful canopies! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

if he had a pc in tow, there was no d-bag, or main out. risers don't always release just because you cut-away. what are you basing this on? just curious. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

i was referring to "freeflying" not "tandems" k? --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

i didn't see it either, now i feel as if i've experienced "coitus interruptus" oh well.. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

2002 DARWIN AWARDS: Yes, the one we've all been waiting for ... the Darwin Annual Awards 2002. The candidates have finally been released! For those not familiar with the "Darwin Award," it's an annual honor given to the person who provided the Universal human gene pool the biggest service by getting KILLED in the most extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition this year has been keen again. Some candidates appear to have trained their whole lives for this event! DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES: 1. In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. 2. In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran, "accidentally" jogged off a 100-foot- high cliff on his daily run. 3. Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA., but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital. 4. In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of the bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor. 5. According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was wearing. 6. Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger. 7. In February, according to police in Windsor, Ontario, Daniel Kolta, 27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a tie in the game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles. DARWIN AWARD HONORABLE MENTIONS: 1. Guthrie, Okla., in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede with a shot from his 22-caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head, fracturing his skull. 2. In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out cobwebs in his basement declined to use a broom in favor of a propane torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his house. 3. Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently failed to notice the window was closed. RUNNER UP: TACOMA, WA: Kerry Bingham, had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 am. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say," said Bingham, "is that God was watching out for me on that night. There's just no other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located. AND THE WINNER: PADERBORN, GERMANY: Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan, 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let fly and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him. "The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him," said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that just happen. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

Ramon: sometimes you absolutely HAVE to take time out for yourself. take a couple of weekends off, go do something else, i gaurentee you the "itch" will be back. i know it's a hassle to have to organize, coach etc...but when you take a sport and turn it into a job this happens more often than not. go to the beach, put your toes in the sand! galveston isn't that far away! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

to be honest, i was never aware of ANS until she showed up in the tabloids. i don't do porn, magazines or movies, so i never "drooled" over her, or any other. believe it or not, i'm happily married now for almost 15 years and managamous. i look from time to time, but that's about it. i wouldn't be seeing ANS now, if it wasn't for her efforts to "show her ass" --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

the washed up boozehag was on AGAIN tonight with the same two shows from the other night. by the way, it's dubbed "The Anna Nichole Show" it stars her, her son, her LAWYER, and her stoopid ass mutt "sugar pie" ((give me a break)) i turned the channel and tuned to "The Osbournes" the shows were from last season, but it beat the shit out of ANS! she' a P.I.G. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

i've actually been assigned two nics, one from my wife which is "RigDog" because she says if i'm not on an oil rig, i've got a rig on my back, and i reckon she thinks i'm a dog? so i can live with that one. the other, i was kind of assigned here on dropzone.com and it's "Yuppie Sky Diver" and i assigned myself the number #0001, it's the least i could do. i guess i got the nic because i mentioned i've got a C-5, then another sky diver mentioned they drove a BMW, i believe, so i assigned that person the 0002 number, who else drives something besides a dodge, or a ford? careful, we've got lot's of Yuppie Sky Diver Numbers to go around! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

i'm thinking that's a real possibility, it's not the first time i've heard of it. glad it worked out for you! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

not particularilary interesting, but profound just the same. it's one thing to be in a drug induced stupor, and tell all of your cute, depraved little secrets to the public in a forum such as she has chosen, and quite another yet to be in her position, and be a little more subtile. she's exposing herself to this critique, if she were making her own living, and weigh 900 pounds, she would be way more attractive than she is now. jeez-us, she's getting head on Howard Stern, and thinking it's funny........HELLO! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

she said the other day on t.v. she wasn't allowed to eat over $600.00 of food a day, i thought......sheesh when she sits around the house....she sits AROUND the house! she also complained she had not had sex in two years, personally, i think her "assisstant" is licking her into a stupor induced coma, money can buy a LOT of mouthwash, BUT, she doesn't have the 88 mill just yet, so i don't think i'd be putting my mouth anywhere just yet! (or in her case...ever) YUKSTER! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"