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Get this TomTom. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't understand why any organization feels it's in their best interest to forcefully demand membership. If Tibet wants to be autonomous, why does China care? Why is Sri Lanka so set on keeping the Tamil Tigers in-house? If Texas wants to secede from the US, why should I care? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Why? Yeah why? Why could someone possibly support a group of poor people who want autonomy over where and how they live their lives. No you are right 70(+) Chinese paramilitary forces are probably in that part of Western China because everyone there accepts the Chinese state as legitimate and there is no need for the Chinese to implement their monopoly on violence. You believe in evolution, correct? Are you suggesting these 70 weren't "the fittest"? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Yeah, I don't think anyone was more surprised than me, except perhaps the guy who was accustomed to people just taking his shit. I've got a few theories about why they let me go, but of course I can't know for sure. I'd like to think the incident caused the guy at fault to be a bit more restrained, but am not so naive as to believe he didn't just take out an increased amount of aggression on the next guy. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

One of my favorite sports stories. Shotgun - a no-hitter is credited to the pitcher(s) of a baseball game that keep an opposing team from recording any base hits. In this case, Dock Ellis had been partying hard and lost track of a day. Thinking he was on an off-day, he dropped acid around noon one day. Shortly thereafter he learned that not only was his team playing that day, but he was scheduled to pitch the first game of a double-header. He got to the airport, flew to San Diego, and pitched a complete game no-hitter, albeit with a substantial number of walks due to some understandable control issues. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Probably, but the bragging after the fact would have been tempered a bit by a knee brace. I doubt this guy had sufficient wits to take out a knee (stalling the attack) and then immediately go to his belly with his hands behind his back, but that would have been a reasonable course of action. It's difficult to assume a compliant position while being baton-whipped...much easier if you can buy yourself a few non-violent seconds to concede. Sort of, but not quite so dramatic. I was being a compliant smart-ass while being checked out for no good reason. Feet spread, hands on the roof of the car, no resistance. The cop struck me in the back of the head, driving my face into the roof. Without taking my hands off the car, I told him the next time I'd defend myself, so he hit me harder and I took him down. Two other officers were watching from a distance and came running...I figured jail was in my immediate future, and didn't want an extended stay, so all I did was restrain the assailant until he quit struggling. One of the officers standing up said, "I think that's about enough", I said, "You're right", released the guy, stood up, and re-assumed the position. The guy I'd taken down stood up, retrieved my license from his car and gave it to me. The other officer standing there said, "Perhaps you should call it a night and head home". Surprised that justice had been found on the street, I promptly did so. For the most part, compliance at the beginning avoids the escalation of force and need for self-defense. However incompetence and criminality is at least as prevalent in the constabulary as in any other organization, and when someone demonstrates that they intend you harm, you gotta do what you gotta do. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

While the whole thing seems a bit out of sorts, I don't think it's unreasonable to tell the Pentagon to do what it said it would do or risk some funding. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Ummmmm........... Yeah.................. Yeah, I understand that it sounds like mindless bravado, but the bottom line is if an assailant puts his knees where I can get them, I'll take the shot. I've successfully repelled a police assault in the past and I'd do it again if I had to. I'll be the first to admit that it's my preference to avoid such situations altogether, but if some thug is escalating a situation from non-violent to violent, I'll react accordingly to defend myself, or at least give as good as I get. The possession of a badge earns a thug zero credit in my book...I am no sheep and he is no shepherd. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Does this count as terrorism? Or simple insurrection? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Anyone who needs to resort to such methods in order to handle such passive resistance is unworthy of the badge. And yes, I call it assault. The nature of a man's actions matter far more to me than the color of his clothes. In this case, one "boy in blue" decided act more like a bully than a peace officer. If that'd been me on the ground, the chickenshit would have regretted walking so close to my legs while acting out his sadistic fantasies. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

There is some sound in this copy of the same assault. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Having landed an old 26' LoPo with a suspended weight of around 225-230 lbs on my 33rd jump, I whole-heartedly agree. Under my reserve, watching my altimeter rapidly tick off the altitude, I figured I must have some sort of reserve mal, but the only round mal I knew of was a Mae West, and I didn't have that, so I had nothing to do but try and steer myself away from a car that was rapidly coming up and prepare for the best PLF I could pull off. My FJC instructor had taught me PLFs off a picnic table. I missed the car by about 5' and decided that for realism sake, my FJC instructor should have made me jump off the peak of the jumpshack's roof! Luckily I was young and just a little bruised up from the deal. I still make my FJC students do PLFs off a truck tailgate or a 4-wheeler, in all four directions, with no pussy pads or peas underneath them (admittedly it's only maybe 3'-4', not 6'-8'). I've seen people teach PLFs to students who just have them crumple from a standing position on a pad, and I don't really understand the point. A couple weeks ago I had a FJC and had several volunteers to do the PLFs for me, as I was fighting off a hip flexor issue. I was considering jumping, and my rule has always been that if a student can't do PLFs the way I demand, they can't jump, so I might as well hold myself to the same standard. 10 PLFs off the 4-wheeler later (having to repeatedly demonstrate the backwards PLF), I pronounced myself fit to jump. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I must have lost a day somewhere this week...I could have sworn today was Tuesday. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't specifically remember if he played that one, but probably. He did get most of the standard songs in (Joker, Fly Like an Eagle, Take the Money and Run, etc) and a bunch of new stuff too. Joe Cocker was the opening act. The Entiat River on Saturday was pretty cool too, as was the time we spent jet-skiing at Lake Chelan on Sunday. Overall, it was definitely a fun weekend. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I have been doing that all summer... BUT I still drove to LP for a day of jumping and I live farther away than you do ...............biotch. I could have sworn you posted that at least a couple of your recent weekends were spent putting up fences. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

After advertising for months without hiring anyone, Clint finally decided to promote from within. Question is, how's that OTB^5 gonna work? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Like doing your fellow jumper a solid by allowing him/her to lean back a bit so his head isn't in the ceiling? What's funny is when we go out in public, forget our surroundings, and sit like that in a booth at a restaurant. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Walk...duh! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

ZIPPIT~! Hey, it's not like I'm trying to cut to the front of the line or anything! I was just acknowledging that, sooner or later, I won't be among those left mourning. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Fortunately for you Muenkel, most of us aren't so closed-minded as to think that, just because you worship the same God as Harju, you too must believe gay=pedophile and Muslim=terrorist. The vast majority of us recognize that, in the same way that Islam has many more good people than al qaeda types, Christianity has many more good people (like you) than Westboro Baptist types. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

And of course you feel the same way about Christians being offended by people ridiculing their beliefs, right? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Looks good from my perspective, substantially improved from the previous iteration.

Did someone say something? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

According to this article, the math makes more sense than offshore drilling. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Probably, but a person who truly loves me wouldn't ask me to. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)