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I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh no, you know. Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Help, help, I'm being repressed! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Well I didn't vote for you. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Of course you'd be watching it in reverse, with an infinite number of points to look at between you and the take-off point, so it'd be kind of hard to tell what you were watching. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

38 year old with a 21 year old? Expect terrific sex and an easy time "playing" but that's about it. When she wants to exercise her newly acquired ability to drink will you close the bars with her 3 nights a week? Communication will probably get difficult too, as you two will look at things from totally different perspectives. I'm not saying it can't work. If she's exceptionally mature for her age, and you're (like many skydivers) a bit immature for your age, it might be a nice fit (until you meet her dad and realize he's approximately your age). But I wouldn't go into it with any big expectations. If you can both approach it from a "fun first" perspective, I'd say go for it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Been in a knife fight, didn't get cut. After-hours party in a hotel room, a guy pulls a knife on me for laughing at him. He was fairly drunk, so when he lunged I was able to sidestep behind him, force him onto the bed face down, then pull his arm up behind him till he relinquished the knife. I folded the knife up and put it in my pocket as a "party favor" and threw the guy out. Funny part of the story. Cops showed up about 20 minutes later looking for the knife. We told them we didn't know where it was, that we thought it had been in the guy's back pocket when we tossed him. Meanwhile we're wondering how the hell these guys even know about this incident. Well it turns out this idiot had gone down to the hotel lobby and called the cops and told them the TRUTH! To paraphrase "This guy laughed at me so I committed assault with a deadly weapon. It didn't work and I would like you to retrieve my weapon for me." Their reaction to his honesty was predictable, in that they had him cuffed and under arrest in the back of the cop car before they even came up to the room. Not so funny part of the story. The guy made bail the next day. Him and the cops showed up at my work (a fairly rough bar) a couple times during the week looking for me, but each time I wasn't there. Both parties (guy and cops) wanted the knife. Finally the cops caught me there the next Friday night and said "We know you've got the knife, we'd like to let you keep it, but that's not an option anymore. We mean it." It turned out the guy had used the knife on someone else the night before he pulled it on me, and that person had subsequently died. I called my roommate, told him to bring the knife down, and turned it over. The guy was convicted of some sort of death-causing crime (I don't know if it was murder or manslaughter) and went away for quite some time. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I can kind of understand your analogy, but we need to be a bit clearer on things. The oncoming car that you believe is about to smash into me is invisible. You've never seen one of these invisible cars smash into anyone, nor has anyone else. You and I both have heard that these invisible cars exist and that they can smash into people, however we responded differently to those stories in that you believe them and I don't. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Economic Left/Right: -2.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41 The only reason I principally vote democrat is because those candidates have the best chances of beating the republicans who want to turn this country into a theocracy devoid of any individual liberties. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

That's the part I don't get. What makes you consider it "a shame" that others believe differently than you? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Jesus was a real person. Santa is fictitious. No SinterKlaas?! Blasphemy! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Quick - Name 5 things that we can prove right. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

At least he didn't change the threat level to orange. That screws up my routine by adding half an hour to my commute each morning. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Keep your gear. The stress associated with a new house can be a bit overwhelming and even a $10 hop & pop once in awhile can help alleviate it. If you'll be maxing out to the point you can't afford an occasional hop & pop, you're buying more house than you can afford and will find yourself completely hosed when something unexpected comes up (broken AC unit, increased property taxes/insurance, retrofitting a backflow preventer, etc). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Man who farts in church sits in his own pew. "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I'm taking 10 credits. It's a pain, but it's the last 10 credits I need for my bachelor's, so at least there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Level 9 here too...but with 763,676 points. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Yeah, I'm not planning on hiring one. I was just wondering if there was one on dropzone.com that could point me in the right direction to track them down on my own. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

and no, I don't mean people who like to investigate privates! Someone hit my truck in a parking lot last night and I was able to determine the type and approximate year of their vehicle from the broken pieces they left next to my truck. The police don't have any interest in pursuing them unless it's an injury/fatality hit & run which leaves me with the cost of the repairs. I'd like to return their broken pieces of plastic to them, and perhaps discuss their ability to pay, but have no idea how to go about tracking them down. Living in a reasonably small town, it'd be nice if I could somehow track down a list of all white 1980-1989 Lincoln Towncars in the area, but I kinda doubt such records are accessible by the public. Any suggestions? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I own a couple nice watches but can't wear them due to my skin reacting poorly to most metals. Even the fancy ones with hypoallergenic bands and backs use cheap metal pins to connect the band to the watch. Although those pins don't actually touch the skin, being that close to my skin is enough to trigger two small itchy rashes right next to the pins within several hours. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

80something:10:0 80something is the model year of the Lincoln Towncar that tagged my truck in a parking lot last night and then left (car make/model tracked down by me on the internet this morning by the headlight pieces he left at the scene). 9 jumps (4 tandems, 3 fun jumps, 1 tandem video, 1 AFF, 1 demo) Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

"Back 'atcha!" LOL. Great picture. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

We have all the options available to us (I've got S/L, IAD, AFF, and tandem ratings). At first I was thinking a high S/L or IAD would be good so he could just focus on the canopy flight and not have to worry about hand signals/dive flow etc. But our plane is a rear-door 206, i.e. a "poised" exit rather than a hanging exit, so then I thought a rudimentary AFF Level 1 would be better, perhaps with a high pull. Controlling the arm shouldn't be difficult, we can just tape/strap it to his belly. I'm sure we could teach him to freefall stable with that arm in (modified mantis perhaps), my bigger concern is canopy flight. His good arm isn't massive, and my experience with one-handed canopy flaring (up high) is that it is quite difficult. If that hand isn't exactly centered on the torso you'll turn, and the corrections are counter-intuitive to natural tendency. Pulling right to counter a left turn will make you turn harder to the left. This may not be an issue on bigger student type canopies, but then we run into a fatigue factor due to the increased toggle pressure of those canopies. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Possibly, but let's keep track of WHAT I'm arguing...that he didn't necessarily break any BSRs or FARs. That's the ONLY thing I've argued. Not an ailment I often suffer. I have not once called this jump "wise" or made any other reference to its advisability. I could possibly be convinced that it was safer than a 250 foot BASE jump but that's about as far as I could see that discussion going. I just spent a week with such a person while getting a new rating. I got some valuable insight into just what you're talking about during that process. Both of my DZO's have over 40 years in sport and I have several friends with over 30 years in sport. I ask for their viewpoints all the time. I'm not sure of the relevance of this to anything I've said in this thread. I did not personally make this jump, advise anyone on how to make this jump, call this jump "f@#$$g awesome", or in any other way condone this jump. I simply said that it's possible that no BSRs or FARs were violated. Well at least spell it right! I certainly hope to see you then. Blue skies, Dave Todak S&TA 03/05 "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

An untucked tuck tab is not an open container. Containers these days are closed with some combination of closing loops and either ripcords or closing pins. Removal of said ripcords or closing pins from the closing loops make for open containers. I understand your point Ron. You're arguing that he should have deployed the parachute that he intended to land by 2000 feet. I mostly agree with you, but think such a requirement would belong in the intentional cutaway BSR, not the "opening altitudes" BSR. I'm also wondering whether there is a specific reason such a stipulation is not present there. In any case, I don't need to call USPA and ask them what they meant. In rule-writing as in everything, it's not what you mean to say that matters, it's what you actually say. USPA actually said he had to have an open container by 2000 feet. It's entirely possible that he did. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The BSRs don't specify "main" or "primary" parachute deployment, they merely require "container opening". It appears you're reading something into the BSRs that isn't actually printed there. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)