You're skydiving and you just found out that your main parachute and back-up parachute don't work. What do you do?
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kuyakev
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I would be praying to the lord to keep me safe and hope that i land in the lake or something like that.
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If you were above land, say your prayers and hope you can find some thick bush/trees to land in and hopefully break your fall (apparently a woman fell from some silly height into trees and she survived, with broken bones though I think). If you were falling into water, try and break the surface tension before you hit the water, maybe with your shoe of something. Generall, hope the lucky gods are looking down on you :p
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Strip and then start swimming.
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Do quite a few laps around the rosary.
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If for some strange reason I decided to go skydiving, I surely wouldn't do it alone. I'd try to latch on to my friend & hope their parachute was not having the same problem.
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Curse god for screwing up yet again...lol
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I suppose there would be nothing left to do but pray.
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Say a prayer! =)
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Aim for that mattress factory down there...and try to miss the jagged metal factory right next door.
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Say gooddbye to the ones I love.
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die
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Make sure the next time you sky dive you don't have an affair with the wife of your parachute packer.
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Become a religious person....remember those religious moments at Church and at Catholic School. Faith in God and Religion basically comes from the fear of death...and that's the perfect time for a moment like that!
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A friend's skydiving instructor had the following advice in the event all parachutes failed: "Point you toes straight down. Put your arms out like a crucifix. Tip one hand up and one hand down. This will start you spinning like a top. When you land, you will burrow straight into the dirt and it will save the expense of burying you..." Oh so reassuring!!
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1) Point my toes straight down, cross my legs, and stick out my arms. That way the cleanup crew can twist me out of the ground like a corkscrew. OR 2) Aim for my mother-in-law. If I'm gonna die, I may as well make the world a better place before I go.
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Before or after I pissed myself?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joIZHwmdcFs
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If I was alone, I'd say my last prayers, plan on what part of the body I'd rather fall on, wonder if it matters, and then try to enjoy my fall. If I wasn't, I'd probably freak out, try to get help, fail, and well, fall.
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Well, seeing as there is little else I *could* do, I would most likely do something completely ridiculous-- hoping and praying that it would work, knowing to myself that it wouldn't. Something like taking my jumpsuit (or whatever it is I would be wearing for skydiving) off and trying to use it as a makeshift parachute, imagining myself wafting gently down as a feather would in my head, whist falling to my death would be a pretty good example... =P
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probably dig through my pockets to see if i still had the bill for that parachute,cause for sure i m gonna want my money back this time,enough is enough.
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Tell my boys and fiance I love them in my mind, that's if I'm not passed out by then!
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I'm thinking scream
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Scream. And hope for the best.
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Remove my underwear, stretch it above my head and float safely down to the Earth's surface.
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a flip.
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Fall...
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wake up in a cold sweat, and make a mental note to never go skydiving ever!
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Mess my back chute !! LOL !!
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Make peace with God...
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pray and then make my body limp so maybe i could survive becaus a it happened to a women 1 time and she survived a parachute fail.
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Hope like hell I die on impact cuz..thats gonna hurt..LMAO :)
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Well, if I was skydiving with other people, I'd signal my predicament to them and hang on. If you do this, you break both arms, so the other person needs to hold you, but you will probably survive. If I was skydiving alone, I'd try to open the chute manually, reaching my hands into the pack and unravelling it. Failing that, just aim for something to cushion the fall - a bale of hay, trees, grass, even a car would help.
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Dance my last dance and aim for water if possiable.
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Kiss your ass goodbye
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Crap myself
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Pick an object and try for a direct hit. I'm dead already, might as well make a game of it. I'm certainly not going to worry about it.
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Aim for someone I didn't like!
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try to land on my head to ensure a quick death.
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Locate someone else in the jump, and either spread my body out to slow down or put arms and legs together to catch up, grab hold of them, unlatch and wrestle them out of their parachute, and put it on myself while keeping them away with kicks.
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Use my jetpack to fly to safety
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I would probably be screaming/ praying/ saying my final thoughts to people that will never hear me.
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Quickly locate my boss's Lamborghini and land on it ;)
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pray and then just enjoy the ride down...
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What more could I do? I would scream as if someone could actually hear me, and probably give myself a heart attack before reaching the ground.
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Fall into some tall pine trees to break my fall like Rambo and then get out the needle and thread and sew up all of my nasty bleeding gashes.
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I think that this line from The Last Starfighter will suffice for an answer:
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I would act like I was swimming.
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Try to land on the parachute of a skydiver below me. If there were no skydivers below me I would thank God for a wonderful life.
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freak out and pee all over myself.
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Jettison the contents of my bladder and bowels.
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Aim for a pine tree and grab the branches as I fell through it. (It worked for Rambo!!!)
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start flying and look for a soft landing, a newly plowed field, or a swamp with a marsh. this is an interesting question. i hope to see an interesting answer from you.
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say a just-in-case prayer and enjoy the ride while it lasts.
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Pray like mad.
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Fact from fiction, truth from diction. 1st I would try to cut the cord/zipper holding the chute in. Failing that, pray if I had time left.
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I try to calculate if I can rub one out in 27 seconds.............
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"Put the head between the legs and kiss the ass good-by"
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... try to learn how to fly ... ... if I am falling to my death anyway, I might as well attempt the miraculous, what else could I loose by trying?
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Hope that Newton was wrong about gravity.
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Have the guy repack it BEFORE I get into the plane. Nobody said I found out after jumping...
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