usmcdannyboy 0 #1 December 20, 2002 ok here's the story I was talking to a friend of mine who wants to jump but cant afford it and he loves to hear about my weekend adventures of danger and dareing. when all of a sudden this guy walks up and butts in on the conversation. he listens just long enough to realize we are talking about skydiving. then he spouts "yea I used to skydive" so i ask him "really? where?" he tells me of some mom and pop operation in Va. beach. i ask him the name of the place and he doesnt remember. so i ask him why he doesnt jump anymore. he replies that he had a really scary experience. the experience was on a 5 way he had forgotten his alti. and figured he would pull when everyone else did. but when he jumped they were in solid clouds and didnt know where everyone else was. so he pulls and he was so high that he landed off the drop zone. i ask him how many jumps he had at this point he told me 3. so using my powers of deduction i ask why would someone who only jumped 2 prior would be allowed on a 5 way did he even do a student course??? he tells me it was because it was a mom and pop dz and they said he would be ok. but the next story was even better to make a long story short he had a main/reserve entanglement and landed in a highway so he decided to give it up because it was too dangerous. why do people feel they have to lie about doing it before,better or faster than anyone else no matter what it is. people like this piss me off and i want to do nothing but point my finger in their face and yell LIAR!!!!!!!..for some reason i dont and i walk away dazed and confused about these peopleI am the light my son...What you seek is fire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f1freak 0 #2 December 20, 2002 LOL... Hell, i live in va beach.... i wanna know where this dz is... i'm sick of driving so far i just look and smile at people like that, fuck it.... what can you do????? HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #3 December 20, 2002 There is a quote that I do not know if I will get right. But it came from AggieDave. What you want to do is... "Kick the guy in the head... and if he has kids kick em again..." AggieDave (date ~ ?) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Samurai136 0 #4 December 20, 2002 Dude, you know where it is... it's right around that bend in the road. That mom an pop operationI've run into a few people in bars that are obviously full of it. I guess some people jump out of planes, others sit in bars drunk and telling lies... Ken "Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian Ken Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usmcdannyboy 0 #5 December 20, 2002 expose them for what the are. i see it as them doing the sport harm and giving us all a bad rap. just so they can look cool. besides if some hottie is going to give it up for a good story then dammit let me tell her a story thats at least real I am the light my son...What you seek is fire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #6 December 20, 2002 Dude, you gotta get this about the Marine Corps too, don't you? After they get out everybody was Force Recon. "Yeah, I speak Russian,....when I feel like it" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LouDiamond 1 #7 December 20, 2002 So why don't you? I call liars like that on their shit to their faces. You should see the back peddling then. To not call a person like that on their shit is to guarentee they will repeat it again."It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f1freak 0 #8 December 20, 2002 LOL... That place, ya know I kind of enjoy listening to them make fools of themselves... It makes me smile HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nws01 0 #9 December 20, 2002 I speak french. French fries and french toast. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usmcdannyboy 0 #10 December 20, 2002 QuoteSo why don't you? I call liars like that on their shit to their faces. You should see the back peddling then. To not call a person like that on their shit is to guarentee they will repeat it again. maybe i should start doing that....im usualy so stunned and disgusted i want nothing to do with them but maybe i should take a little of my "work attitude" home with meI am the light my son...What you seek is fire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LouDiamond 1 #11 December 20, 2002 Plus it's pretty funny to watch as the lie gets bigger and the circumstances more complicated."It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usmcdannyboy 0 #12 December 20, 2002 well it is kind of fun to ask questions and see how far they go....he got the handle sides right but then again its a 50/50 shot but his hand movements when he "pulled" were all from the chest down.I am the light my son...What you seek is fire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f1freak 0 #13 December 20, 2002 Yeah, it's fun to play with them till they get to messed up, and they know it.... Like laughing at the guy that pulled from the chest say to him "hahahahaha... dude, when did you jump 1980... you dont pull like that" i dont know, it's the little slams that add up till they feel like a total dumb ass... HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #14 December 21, 2002 The habitual whuffo liar seems to be a common theme. We need a special name for whuffos that lie about being skydivers. Any ideas? "whuffo-wanna-be"? Maybe if whuffo means "Whuffo you jump outta that airplane?", then how about: "ayesta" - "Ayesta jump from dem planes, too!"Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akaGQ 0 #15 December 21, 2002 I can relate to this in a way. I have a friend of mine that is sorta close but not so much anymore now that I called him out but I was with him and his gf and we were just cruisin and at the time he didnt know I jumped and I asked like I tend to ask everyone I know if he had ever considered skydiving. He said he already had been 6 times before hand and I was like oh kickass. Well I started to ask what all he did and he stated that he did them all at SD ATL and I was like hey thats cool funny I never saw him there though and we kept talking and then he manages to say that hes done an O2 jump at SD ATL with only six jumps and I played dumb and said so which jump did you do the O2 jump and he was like 3 or 4 I think...well for me something like that I think Id remember I asked what alti he jumped from and he said 33K and I was like wow man thats totally kickass the entire time his gf was getting turned on by his bullsh!! being an adrenaline freak herself and then he was like oh yeah if you want to I can get you jumps really cheap and I was like really like how cheap and he was like I dunno maybe 100$ a jump and I was like wow thats really cheap man....he was sitting there lovin himself so I started asking a few questions starting small cause perhaps he had made maybe one tandem then started his own little fantasy in order to impress his gf and others he knew. So I asked him what a PLF was and he was like what do you mean...well right off I knew he was throwing me for a big one and had never even jumped period so I was like well Parachute Landing Fall and he was like oh yeah I know that and I was like oh well ok so demonstrate it for me and he was like oh I cant right now Im in my car so we pulled over and he jumped out and rolled on the ground leaving everything open to get broken and I was like ok...so when he dropped me off at my car he had his gf convinced that he was some skygod and I was like oh yeah hold on a sec so I went to my car pulled out my rig and walked over with my liscense and showed it to him and his girl and his girl was like wow you do it too and I said yeah I do but he doesnt and she was like huh? And I said yeah unfortunately ole colby over there has been throwing ya for a fast one for the last hour cause a PLF is one of the first things that your taught in skydiving and he even demonstrated it incorrectly...and he just sat there and then right before I was able to point everything else out that he lied about he told me to f off and drove off with a quickness. I have however called him a few times and asked if hed like to come out sometime and make a jump with me at SD atl and everytime I ask hes always doing something else....but hey just goes to show if your gonna lie about something at least have some knowledge about what your lieing about so you at least have a foot to stand on cause ya never know whos gonna be there to point you out.- GQ ... it was the love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty ... -Charles Lindberg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #16 December 21, 2002 BWAHAHAHA!! That's great! That's the way to deal with these idiots: Don't get mad at them, just keep stringing them along & watch them make bigger asses of themselves! That's funny as shit, man! Makes me want to meet one of these wanna-bes just so I can fuck with them! Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhino 0 #17 December 21, 2002 LOL What a LOUUUUUSERRRR... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mujie96 0 #18 December 21, 2002 hee-hee, I heard this story on the phone and it still cracks me up. Jess Just keep swimming...just keep swimming.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mujie96 0 #19 December 21, 2002 Quote expose them for what the are. i see it as them doing the sport harm and giving us all a bad rap. just so they can look cool. besides if some hottie is going to give it up for a good story then dammit let me tell her a story thats at least real Umm...HELLO! Jess Just keep swimming...just keep swimming.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #20 December 21, 2002 I can relate. One place that I use to work at, one of my fellow employees butted into a conversation I was having with someone else. All he caught from the conversation was the word "skydive." That's when he went off and starting talking all about how wonderful skydiving is and how much experience he had. Naturally I gave him enough rope to hang himself wit When a guy starts talking skydiving to a female like myself, it's easier for us to catch them in a lie. I think it's because they are first, trying to impress us, and second, don't even think that a female could skydive. Back in my younger college days I loved it when I caught a guy in a lie when he was trying the "pick-up" line in a bar. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brits17 0 #21 December 21, 2002 Hehe, that was one long-ass sentence. I don't believe I've ever come across so many liars though as I saw in the Army (Airborne school to be exact.) They were all "oh yeah, I've done this before..." Then I'd go in for the kill, asking questions of when, where, what plane, how many jumps. I got one dude going on a roll for a long time. On his second jump, he pulled at 400 feet. I thought that was pretty damn impressive _______________________ aerialkinetics.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
