Yep. All too common. I recall one time in particular which just happened to involve a "parasailer" who base jumped off of a cliff and was doing crazy aerobatics which resulted in him losing his airfoil in his chute, and he plummeted a couple thousand feet to his death. It took days to find him, and one of those searching- whom I knew well- ended up having a bad fall and had to be choppered out. When they finally found the base jumper idiot, he was hanging from tree branches- stretched out into a ribbon of guts and sinew about 30 feet long.
Damn
It was quite the spectacle. It was a hang glider festival. They had music and beer in town park, and some friends and I were hanging out watching these idiots and saw it happen. I decided to poke around and see if I could find anything about this incident, but no luck. It was in the early nineties. What I did find was this gem of a story:
Some Canadian jackass who took passengers for rides on his hang glider had a woman fall off and plunge a 1,000 feet to her death- and apparently he had it all on video. Fucking guy swallowed the memory card to hide the incriminating video. LOL. Couldn't find any follow up on this though.
wow that some crazy shit!
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