base704 0 #1 May 20, 2003 http://www.forbes.com/fyi/2003/0526/054.htmlYou can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ojf1982 0 #2 May 20, 2003 "About 2,000 people have experienced the wingsuit since the company was founded in 1999. Only four have died." Were they expecting more?The edge ... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are those that have gone over - Hunter S. Thompson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kimgriffin 0 #3 May 20, 2003 Thanks for posting that. For everyone's info, the article is in Forbes FYI Summer 2003, not the standard Forbes. We think only subscribers get this as we can not find it on the shelves. If anyone does, please let us know. Unfortunately, the web article does not have the pics that are in the magazine. The article is pretty funny... some serious whuffo death and doom stuff but over all a good read. When the person who answered the phone at BirdMan told me that a reporter from Forbes was on the phone I said, "Yeah, right." I totally figured it was someone pulling my chain or possibly they were doing an article on the 100 smallest businesses! ~Kim BirdMan, Inc. -Kimberly Griffin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #4 May 20, 2003 Quote Thanks for posting that. For everyone's info, the article is in Forbes FYI Summer 2003, not the standard Forbes. We think only subscribers get this as we can not find it on the shelves. If anyone does, please let us know. Unfortunately, the web article does not have the pics that are in the magazine. The article is pretty funny... some serious whuffo death and doom stuff but over all a good read. When the person who answered the phone at BirdMan told me that a reporter from Forbes was on the phone I said, "Yeah, right." I totally figured it was someone pulling my chain or possibly they were doing an article on the 100 smallest businesses! ~Kim BirdMan, Inc. nice article, cool pic of you kim on the avatar, who took that? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base704 0 #5 May 20, 2003 i'm tryin'... Edited to say...got it, first try.sweet. You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base704 0 #6 May 20, 2003 yeah, baby...You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gus 1 #7 May 20, 2003 Check out Jari.jpg Quote Allmost all of his clients have lived to marvel at its wonders That's some serious whuffo writing. GusOutpatientsOnline.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kimgriffin 0 #8 May 20, 2003 Yeah, the writer - a very nice guy but a non skydiver, of course - took that 4 people had died in BirdMan suits pretty seriously. He didn't mention that Jari had told him that 3 of those 4 died on BASE jumps in the suits (and that the suit spefically did not cause the death.) But, you know the media... But, any press is good press right? I SO won't complain about BirdMan being in Forbes, even if they made it sound like the odds of survival are something like 4 in 2000. Ha! ~Kim-Kimberly Griffin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MichaelAbrams 0 #9 July 7, 2003 Hey Kim, Thanks for calling me a nice guy! But I DID mention that 3 of those 4 deaths were BASE jumps: "Three of the four deaths attributed to the BirdMan suit occurred on jumps from stationary heights like cliffs or bridges." As for the "Almost all of his clients have lived to marvel at its wonders" I offer my apologies but would like to point out that the writer, whuffo though he is, did not write the "display copy". Blame the editors, I say, blame the editors. But come on, death-and-destrcution's good reading! Yours, Michael Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arlo 0 #10 July 7, 2003 michael! how the hell are ya? when are you jumping again? blues, arlo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MichaelAbrams 0 #11 July 7, 2003 I'm working on it! I'm doing my best to get someone else to foot the bill (just like I did the last one). Get back to me in a month. By the way, I did originally have you in the first paragraph of the story with your quote about wearing heals, but it got cut (blame the editors again). So you can keep your virgin. Sorry. With luck I'll get it in elsewhere (get back to me in a month). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arlo 0 #12 July 7, 2003 those bastards! thanks for trying, though. so you started something Michael: first forbes, then popular science, cnn, maxim, and who knows what else.... how about NGs Adventure? take care! a Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
