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Adrenalin has it's price. True.
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Its important for some sports (if that's the proper term to use) to produce casualties on a regular basis. Otherwise, it wouldn't provide the rush that participants are after. Excellent post.
Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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They were newlyweds?
Dang, that sucks.
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Geeesh. Newlyweds Coulda just got it annulled.
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Friend of mine Katie died a few years back BASE jumping out in California. Her boyfriend was a wingsuit designer and died trying to save her. They drowned. We had talked about it and she wasn’t too keen on dying. She just thought she was good enough to avoid mistakes. Numerous times I told her she should consider giving it up. Very nice girl. Dang good nurse
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I have watched them jump from that bridge many times and am surprised it doesn’t happen more often. A few years ago my wife and I watched one that came close. His chute folded under when it opened. He got it open but not soon enough to keep him on target. He ended up in some trees and was banged up some. The all time dumbest Darwin off this bridge was a couple years ago. A 70+ year old guy came up with a spectacular jump plan. His assistant sprayed his chute with some kind of highly flammable spray. The plan was to light the chute on fire just before he jumped. Then he'd jump, release the chute, and then pop his real chute. Things went wrong. The wind pushed enough of the spray to his clothes so that when the assistant lit it, the fire jumped from the chute to his clothes and HE went up in a ball of flame. He went off the bridge but wasn't able to drop the burning chute. He hit the water in flames. Very dead. It was a 'spectacular' jump for sure. Daaamn talk about dancing with the devil.
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The worst slaves are those that put the chains on themselves.
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Yeah, she performed CPR but he died anyway. Yes, CPR almost never works. Like 99 percent of the time. And it really never works for trauma cases. I can't believe how the American Red Cross pushes this BS.
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Dumbazz..
I did plenty of terrifically dangerous stuff before I was married and had kids. For Uncle Sam (pay) and otherwise. Once you marry, you have responsibilities to another. At least he didn't leave any kids behind like that POS youtuber who kanked himself flying a parasail with a fan strapped to his azz.
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deadlift_dude “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.” ----Fred Rogers
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