Murphy's Law + Skydiving = 3rd Degree Burns?!

published by Oatmeal

8 months 2 weeks ago • 2307 views

tags: parachute, sky diving, fall

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And I guess that makes voice-over dude an extremely annoying dude.

written by Abducted

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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I thought reserves have an auto open feature based on altitude and speed.

I guess you are SOL though when it comes to steering, plus who does a first jump without a tandem?

written by thesnipe

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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*requeue

written by Oatmeal

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 8:24am PST - requeue requested by submitter Oatmeal.

written by siftbot

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Jesus Christ Consolidated, how many imbeciles does it take to jump out of an airplane?? These 3....yeah snipe, don't most places that train jumpers have you strapped to the instructor??? And ?TF jumps w/o a chute you can steer???? This looked like clusterfuck from the gitgo.....

written by choggie

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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The moron pulled the cut-away first on the right side of his chest, that's why the main is released when the instructor deploys the chute for him. It functioned the way it's supposed to. You can see the instructor trying to direct his hand to his back, where you deploy the main from, but he resists and grabs the cut-away.

how he made it through the half day of instruction in the AFF program without knowing difference between the cutway and main deployment bag is beyond me. You practice the moves dozens of times... you can't mix them up... unless you're this guy.

Yes, the reserve will auto-deploy if you have an AAD, which all student rigs these days do. Once you're below 750ft, and should your speed be greater than 78 miles an hour, the reserve is automatcially deployed, and it flys exactly like the main... with steering toggles and all. If you cut-away before that time, as he unintentionally did, you can pull the metal handle on the left side of your chest to deploy the reserve manually...which is what he eventually did.

written by isosceles | 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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I guess Evolution ain't perfect eh?

written by Crazy-drummer

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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TheSnipe - It was his first solo jump. I.E. - After tandem.

written by MarineGunrock

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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i call dupe. seen it before, and definitely would have sifted it!

i think the word "doofus" applies here.

written by MINK

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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"I knew if I hit the pole I would be grounded and not be electrocuted."

Wow. Dude needs a lesson in how electricity works.

written by arrendek

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Vote up for the name/description at -2:09

"Scott Lutz
..Learned to pray real fast"

written by Shepppard

| 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Arrendek, I was thinking the same thing as soon as the "victim" said that. It's probably why he got electrocuted since he was aiming for the pole to safely "ground" himself. Hmmmmm....while Wile E. Coyote consistently had bad luck, at least he was smart enough to know how things worked! Definitely EiA classification for this guy.