My best friend and I when we were kids pooled our money and bought a parachute from the surplus store. We had many a wild drag across fallow fields during windstorms with that thing.
Oh, yes. Back to McManus and his story about the blizzard. He and Retch bought a surplus parachute. Rancid Crabtree had an old car hood to use for a sled. Rancid tied the chute around his waist and the boys tossed the chute up in the air in a 50 mph wind. It was a long time before they saw Crabtree again but they found some barb wire fences torn down.
