Deuce

How about this one. You're so cute! But that backwards hat 'hood thing doesn't work with that full face helmet

Thank you, Obi-Quade-Kenobi

I think this is my best skydiving photograph so far. Skymonkeys only wear helmets if they're really, really cool. Find the Monkey.

PM me. I've got a 45 minute DVD with over 200 photos about to go out to all the folks who paid for camera on the formation loads. I should be ready to get it out next week.

Hey Wingy, thanks! That last horny gorilla or whatever with HH kinda spooked me. I couldn't remember that jump, but then I realized it's cause HH is wearing my other rig. Did you jump a Cessna at Eloy, or was that from another time/place?

That's why I feel fortunate that I believe in God. I'll see and experience things and make my best effort to do what I think and believe is "right", but judgement is left for the reckoning that will occur when I die. I don't mean to sound like a moral relativist, because I do think we should not tolerate the biggies, like child molestation, rape and murder. But stuff that does not intrude into others lives, like homosexuality and recreational drug use, while I choose not to engage in, is better left for the Authority At The End Of Our lives to decide was right or wrong.

I have experience. You have an opinion, and an attitude. I'm done with this thread.

Amen.

I just don't know how this gap between cops and folks got so huge. It saddens me.

Well, you can both go out and be reserve police officers and see for yourself. Frankly, I dare you. You've just been told that a car has been taken by robbery. You've got the car, you don't have the gun, the suspects are running their mouths like suspects do to keep you off balance and a pitbull dog charges you out of the dark. You are afraid for your life and you don't take the time to see if the dog is smiling and wagging it's tail. Everybody in hindsight is telling you how you had all the time in the world to do doggie threat assessment and you should have telepathically known that dispatch fucked up. I mean, hey!, suspects always tell you the truth. You do a felony stop on what dispatch said was a robbery and the suspects tell you that they didn't do it, you should just take their word for it and let them go! When they tell you the dog is no threat, you should believe them, suspects wouldn't lie to the police, right? I've been to a lot of cop funerals and heard "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes too many times. In every case but one, that I recall right now, they died pausing while they should have been acting. The whole thing would have been prevented if the family had looped the stupid dogs leash through a door handle while they were pulling over. -I have two dogs, by the way, that I dote over. Shiba-Inus. They're cool.

Oh, ugh. Never get in serious trouble around a vidiot. They'll get great footage of you getting mauled by a bear and forget to help Congratulations on your recovery (I'm hoping you recovered...)

Jesus Christ is back?! Oh shit...... Nice pictures Art.

A very good report. The officer actually waits too long to shoot the dog, and does so at point blank range while backing up. A "mixed-breed bulldog" is a pitbull. The question is: should the cop have let the dog bite him before taking defensive action? Having seen resistant subject have their scrotums torn open by police dogs on two occasions, my answer is 'no'. Could the cop have used a bean bag round on the dog? Yes. But if a gunfight had erupted during the chaotic first moments of the car stop, a beanbag shotgun might have cost the lives of cops or suspects. Bad deal all around.

I've got BigBen's footage of him, KatieBear, Cornholio, and Mouth launching an inverted train to a 4 way sitfly. I'm sure they planned it that way

I'm glad I'm out of the business. Just about all of you assume the press has it right. You don't have the police side of the story, but most of you figure they fucked up. Maybe they did. The public suffers from "why didn't you fire a warning shot?" syndrome. "You're a big, tough guy, you should have let him hit you once to justify using your baton on him" "You're wearing boots, let the dog bite them while you lasso it with your hobble" "Shoot him in the leg" "Shoot the gun out of his hand". Silly. Because of this public animosity the public is going to get more and more antisocial cops. The public is not really interested in finding out how to get more effective law enforcement, it just loves this "Sue them" "Become their worst nightmare" mentality. Nothing but negative reinforcement is going to give you a huge crew of negative cops.

Bite me. All of you! Upon further review it's 12. Built as planned, and HH sets the rules, Craig Gerard can kick your butts, and the Skymonkey will be set loose upon you like a plague. Hah. Lawyer your way out of it if you can, but I was there, and that's the record!

*12 (edited upon further review of the tape) Set on jump 4 of the formation loads at Eloy. When I figure out how to do a frame grab, I'll post the photo. Well done!

I do a full extension to slow down as much as I can, then put my feet up as I bring both arms in to my sides and pull. Yeah, it takes some getting used to, doesn't it? Cause if you stay in a boxman and you reach back with your right arm to pull, that left wing will flip you over. If you leave your legs out and collapse both wings, you end up head down. And if you get nice and stable with your feet on your butt and your elbows in, you're hauling ass when you deploy. Fun, though, huh? Have you made the mistake of hauling down to a formation and going to pop the wings only to realize you're in your RW suit? Vrooom.

Just put that stobe in your tongue and nobody's gonna notice your hair. Try curly.

You will find me featured on page 67. Get your magnifying glass. Under "Pacific Region" you will see me in the top right corner of the photo cheering for Dave's Gold Wings. My moment in the sun.....

Friday the 13th, September 2002 was my 16th wedding anniversary. Hooked my wife up tandem with Connie, her husband Vic flew video, I hung from the strut, and all of us dropped out of the Cessna and I got my first freefall kiss from my Mrs. a couple thousand feet later.

I've got 40 minutes of video of DZ.commers jumping out of planes at Eloy finally edited in Premiere. I need to add music, but the application that came with my computer is very fussy about converting files for export. Is there a simple application that will convert CD music to .wav format for 'personal use' or whatever?

(Carl Sagan Voice) Billions and Billions.

I had two in Mexico, there's a word for it, mordida, I think. I was thinking in terms of the US, though. I never saw any economic corruption, but I did see folks that were overly aggressive, or lazy report writers.

Ben's posting! Hey Buddy! I like the wig picture better, that tank you own is much too butch! Always jump with better jumpers when you can. Keep your eyes and ears open, listen, ask questions, and don't make excuses for mistakes. Learn from them.