Monday, December 05, 2011

Paraglider has unexpected collision


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2 comments:

Insolitus said...

Ouch. I hope he's OK.

I wonder how these paragliding and -chuting activities compare to other, more common risky things. Driving a car is actually quite dangerous, even though it doesn't feel like it. Being blown around by wind on the other hand seems very dangerous, but I don't actually know if it is.

I still wouldn't jump out of a plane. I ride my bicycle a lot, I have good enough chances already to be run over by a motor vehicle.

arbroath said...

I did a sponsored parachute jump years ago and landed on the roof of an aircraft hangar.

I'm not afraid of heights, but I don't 'do' ladders, so they had to use a borrowed cherry-picker to get me down.