NickDG
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I saw guys packing in a phone booth once. It was a small glass, and wood or metal, enclosure with a coin operated telephone built in . . . NickD
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There's no way we don't benefit from having a packed parachute whilst going aloft. Better to be packed in case a wing suddenly diverges, but then if you managed to get a rig on among the falling flaming wreckage, and seats full of people, they'd blame you, if you survived and the headline would be BASE jumper flummoxes valiant pilot's attempt to save doomed airliner. But, better scorned by three hundred and fifty than carried by six . . . You could then move to Belgium and open a bar called "Luckys." NickD
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It's that time again. 39 Days 11 Hours 54 Minutes Until Christmas . . . If you can help a kid go here please. http://www.santasheart.org/ http://www.santasheart.org/letter-images/50038.pdf NickD
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Not enough times . . . NickD BASE 194
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Stuntman David Nunn jumped onto the rail at Bridge Day 1980-something in a white (cutaway) suit and tie and spectators thought for sure he was a one of them who just went for it . . . He was wearing a Moe Viletto "Blade" BASE rig underneath . . . NickD
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Never had any trouble with a BASE rig as carry on. Ritchie and I were coming home from a Bridge Day and he asked a flight attendant to put a BASE video into the in-flight movie machine and she did. The flight deck crew took turns coming back to watch it. Another time a cabin crew let us pack a BASE rig in the back of MD-80 . . . It's one of the few benefits of BASE being out in the open, people know we're nuts, but not dangerous . . . NickD
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Pelkey & Guyer - Us newbs haven't a chance now . . . ! NickD
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No way . . . No reaching for risers. Keep flying until you are doing something else, like sitting under a canopy. NickD
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Thanks, good catch! I had fixed that mistake once before then I uploaded the wrong version of the List. It's all right now. And we are back down to 104 . . . NickD BASE 194
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Tip of the Spear . . . http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/10/medal.honor/ NickD
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I'm squirting 'em now . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_A._Cafferata%2C_Jr. NickD BASE 194
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"The enemy is to our front, behind us, and on our flanks. They won't get away this time . . . " - - - - - - - Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller Happy B-Day Brothers . . . NickD
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It "is" the World BASE Number List and if by the book physically being in Texas, USA makes it American - it's not reflected in the countries represented . . . NickD
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Phil Smith is BASE 1, Carl is BASE 4 . . . NickD
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I too got a BUI in 6-foot rubber dingy in San Diego Bay. It was few nights after the NY 9/11 attacks and four of us were just floating along trying to make sense of the events. I had to take an "online" safe boater course, pay a hefty fine, and that was about it. But what really pissed me off is it was about the fourth or fifth time in my life a cop pointed a gun at me. I know they deal with assholes all the time and the job is very dangerous, but I grew up learning you don't point a weapon at someone unless you intend to smoke them. NickD
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I have to say that photographically – that's one of the best BASE photographs I've ever seen. The composition is right, the light is right, it tells a story, and it gives you chills. If I still did a BASE magazine – it would be the next cover shot . . . NickD
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I wanted to put this here, rather than up-board as I think we'd understand this a bit more . . . Back in the early nineties I had a subscriber to my BASE Magazine in South America who sent me some vids of what some kids were doing. It wasn't BASE jumping it was train surfing. He told me the rich kids who could afford boards surfed in the ocean, and the poor kids surfed the trains. The vids were incredible with these guys hanging with only fingertip grips on the sides and tops of speeding trains ducking the obstructions (and sometimes not, killing a lot of them). The below brought it all back for me . . . I've grabbed onto a few slow moving freight trains when I was younger, but nothing like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZvm5H4F-aA NickD
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>>They're not dead, but they sure as hell have gotten older
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California local news is showing a large banner someone hung on an overpass of the 10 freeway. It says: Mission Accomplished! NickD
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The Associated Press just called the Senate race in Virginia for Webb (D). Dems win both Houses . . . - running out for more Champaign . . . and a John Deere hat – way to go Virginia! NickD
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That's funny. The "cats" did consider a use it or lose it policy. But that was back in the Pirate days. Everytime someone went in we all moved down one number. Phil Smith, BASE 1, but an end to it. He said he'd be afraid to ask anyone for a gear check, or even come out of his house, for that matter . . . NickD
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Well, we readied our rigs to put on, the next logical step in our feeble minds - you can do it how you want. Oh, and you didn't have Thread Thrus or B-12s. NickD
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>>1) Putting your rig on when your pilot chute is already out of its BOC. It can fall through a leg strap and you put it on without seeing the bridle routed through your leg strap.
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>>BASE is hopeless
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>>Those poll numbers must make you feel pretty good regarding your efforts, eh?
