the skydiving grasshopper

[weid14 0]

So there I was looking up at my deploying canopy, crap, there's a grasshopper in there, I hope there's not a stain where I smushed the little bugger packing him in there. nope, don't see one, I wonder if it is just grass or something. on the ground, I'm shaking the canopy by teh tail to get what ever it was to the nose, finally see it. yup, it is a grasshopper, the crazy thing is, it is moving, I move the little guy out (no small feat as he was in a blocked off nose portion of my velocity). and set him free, he didn't pay me for the tandem, but that he's a tough little bugger to get packed in a container, make a skydive, go through opening then land. kind of cracked me up.

[skydiventom 0]

Yep... Grasshoppers are amazing creatures.. you should see the way Grasshopper packs for me.... and the dang thing keeps opening.. lol

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" -Groucho Marx- "Tom flies like a rock" -Tom Carson-

[seedy 0]

Is that your ......first.......grasshopper tandem?

I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.

[Stacy 0]

write to PD and tell them that small velocities have now been tested and can be used safely for tandem skydiving. see what they say.

[skymama 37]

I'm still stunned at Dave writing more than 2 lines!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[NtheSeaOrSky 0]

Well, we know the view we see.....can you imagine the trip through a bugs eye?!?!?
Was the lil thing quivering and hugging the canopy fabric??

Life is not fair and there are no guarantees...

[weid14 0]

that's it, no more than a two word response to you.... the soup nazi has spoken (after this one of course

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[weid14 0]

he didn't want to come out his new little nylon home that's for sure. I can understand why it takes so long to put a crossbraced canopy together now though after trying to figure out how to get at him (cross ports)... on another note, do grasshoppers have genders?

[Beachbum 0]

had that happen to me at Lost Prairie, but don't know it the little bugger was alive or not ... he went into freefall when I opened ... saw him dive past me ... LOL

As long as you are happy with yourself ... who cares what the rest of the world thinks?

[grasshopper 0]

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do grasshoppers have genders?

yes, I do. I am a girl, a lesbian girl.

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[Shark 0]

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do grasshoppers have genders?

yes, I do. I am a girl, a lesbian girl.

[TheBile 0]

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do grasshoppers have genders?

yes, I do. I am a girl, a lesbian girl.


I bet you can rub your legs together like no-one I know.

Gerb

I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

[Slappie 9]

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he went into freefall when I opened ... saw him dive past me ...

Now that is interesting.. Do you think he lived thru it? I mean it doesn't weigh much. It's velocity towards the earth can't be that fast. Plus grasshoppers have wings too. I wonder if it was possible the litta-fella made it safely... Just a Monday musing..

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[coho21 0]

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do grasshoppers have genders?


yes, I do. I am a girl, a lesbian girl.

HA Ha lol

J
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