Poor judgement and IQ of an ape

[Liemberg 0]

Once in a lifetime I managed to leave a perfectly good airplane in midair with completely loose legstraps.
(There's something to say for thread-through.)
I ended up with a reservecontainer almost above my head an two barely reachable toggles. My chest strap was right under my nose.

We are all sinners.

Get used to it, fully knowing that complacency CAN kill you...

"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory." - Leonardo da Vinci
A thousand words...

[pontiacgtp00 0]

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Cool story, bro. Tell it again.

Nice failed attempt at trolling, try spending more time at 4chan /b/

[spage 0]

I've met a few people dumber than apes...

Do they get smarter under stress??

[popsjumper 2]

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Nuh....

When they tell you that, the best reply is "Yeah, but who lays the foundation".

Just before you duck......

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[jumpsalot-2 3]

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I've met a few people dumber than apes...

Do they get smarter under stress??

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I saw this on TV years ago. I was amazed that I could not keep up with the Monkey after the numbers become flashed then covered. Try and see if you can. Be honest....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM5QS_adrIQ

Life is short ... jump often.

[Andy9o8 2]

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A couple of good looking girls and a desire to jump asap is a really poor excuse for ending up dead.

Women ARE sin.

Ain't it da truth!

As a kid, I was a baseball nut and I had made my mind up early that I was going to do everything I could for a shot at the pros.

I learned, I practiced my ass off. I immersed myself in baseball.

Bobby Richardson's sister lived two doors down from us and every winter Bobby would visit her for a month and I would pester that poor man religiously to teach me and help me. That man had the patience of a saint.

My dad, being an ex football player had several friends in the pro sports world and again, I would pester them to teach me anything and everything they could about baseball....Pete Rose (well for only one day but still...), Max McGhee, Charlie Green, Willie Puddin'head Jones, to name a few.

I was on a roll. One of the best in whatever league I was in.

Then I discovered women.

Now I'm a DZ bum.

I been run down
Lord, I been lied to
And I don't know why
I let that mean woman make me out a fool

She took all my money
Wrecked my new car
Now she's with one of my good-time buddies,
Drinkin' in some cross-town bar

Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel
Like I been
Tied to the whippin' post
Tied to the whippin' post
Good Lord, I feel like I'm dyin'

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Amazing... that is one smart monkey! No way I could do that.

[JohnMitchell 16]

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A couple of very sweet girls asked if I wanted to do a hop and pop with them. -----But I ended up grabbing my gear (packed by someone else), stuffing my pilot chute into the BOC as fast as I could, and running to the plane, while kitting up. I normally do a full main and reserve pin check - this got skipped in the rush. =========In fact the 'plan' was for a 4 way if we got to 5k, not to jump if we couldn't get 3.5k and hop and pops if in between. -------- We ended up doing hop and pops with me out last.

I've seen stupider stuff. I think a good skill set in our sport is learning how to get your rig checked and on your bod quickly, because there will be days when you are rushed (esp. if you ever get a damn instructor's rating.).

Why wasn't the BOC packed already? Was your AAD on? And I feel it only takes seconds to check the pins and 3 rings. I hope you just ignore the yelling long enough to do that next time.

Staying in the plane if you can't get 3500? I hope those women won't mind me crawling out over them.

Thanks for posting this.

[Scrumpot 1]

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that is one smart monkey!

Not really. ANY monkey could do this, once they are taught the ordering association of each SINGLE DIGITS #'s shapes. Doesn't mean they know what the #'s themselves mean.

This is not intelligence. This is raw, regurgitive "operative memory". That's all. Big difference.

Get into double-digits and there is no way for the monkey then to discern, or REASON the sequential ordering further, like rather intelligence (or being "smart" as you refer to it - which is NOT what this monkey is doing) allows us to do.

FWIW

coitus non circum - Moab Stone

[nigel99 569]

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A couple of very sweet girls asked if I wanted to do a hop and pop with them. -----But I ended up grabbing my gear (packed by someone else), stuffing my pilot chute into the BOC as fast as I could, and running to the plane, while kitting up. I normally do a full main and reserve pin check - this got skipped in the rush. =========In fact the 'plan' was for a 4 way if we got to 5k, not to jump if we couldn't get 3.5k and hop and pops if in between. -------- We ended up doing hop and pops with me out last.

I've seen stupider stuff. I think a good skill set in our sport is learning how to get your rig checked and on your bod quickly, because there will be days when you are rushed (esp. if you ever get a damn instructor's rating.).

Why wasn't the BOC packed already? Was your AAD on? And I feel it only takes seconds to check the pins and 3 rings. I hope you just ignore the yelling long enough to do that next time.

Staying in the plane if you can't get 3500? I hope those women won't mind me crawling out over them.

Thanks for posting this.

The week before I had lent my gear to someone. He had suggested that leaving the BOC unpacked preserved the spandax (I put a thread about it in the gear and rigging section).

Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.