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Wow, what a wave of hate for this guy is sweeping the board...
I didnt think that personal attacks were allowed and would get you a ban, but there is obviously an exception in his case.

Anyway, bearing in mind that I live in the UK and so dont get to see any of the TV broadcasts or hear the radio broadcasts, all I know about this man and what hes been involved in are the last two threads in this forum bearing his name.

What on earth has he done to gather so much hate?
From what I can gather, hes a base jumper who jumped off a tower on his birthday, had an accident that ended up being a fairly high profile rescue operation and then subsequently gave interviews on TV.
HEs done a few stupid things on the TV as far as I can make out such as having certain jump location tattoo's which some people clearly dont like, and the jump location is now hot or unusable for a while.
But that could happen to anyone who has an accident at a less than cosher location and the tattoos... well each to thier own.

But does that really warrant people wishing him death and suffering and raining hatred on him?
Ive listened to the recording of the 911 call from the link here, and I hear a very scared man talking to a half wit phone operator, and the amount of people mocking that call is suprising.
I dont know how many other people have been in a situation like the one he was in, but I should imagine that anyone would be in a mental mess at that time.

What exactly has he done for you all to hate him so much? Im guessing that hes said something in the TV interviews or am I missing something obvious?

You must have missed the part about this being his third time around.

"Hate," however, is a pretty strong word. How about "disbelief," "contempt" and "outrage"?

The guy is a self-aggrandizing moron. He richly deserves the public outcry.

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I don't really feel confortable about hating a guy for being the victim of something that could happen to me ( since I'm not on the local scene, I don't know about the other parts of the story ), but you have to agree with me: knowing the lucky end of the story, listening to that was a kick! Couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes...

Exactly the same way one can laugh at a friend's tree landing vid'

Off that tower you have time to take a snack in FF. He ended up in the wires, he must have fucked up. This is not an accident by any means. This incident just represents the guy's own stupidity, his phone conversation his character, or lack of it.

I would not trust this BASE-Tattoo-look-at-my-scar-on-my-back-I'm-so-fucking-cool-dude with a potato gun in his hands.

Also, I do not think anyone here really hates the character, he comes across as dumb as a gold fish but not malicious. We do hate what he did for the sport.

I've seen many people in much tougher situations than this one and they showed courage not a whining behavior you should not even see in a child.

I do feel ashamed that I, among other people that I respect immensely, are now associated with this guy and the distorted perception of BASE.

Nicely done John! Keep up the good work!

PS
Do you BASE?

 

Incredibly poor gear selection. Specifically, taking a slider up rig off a slider down altitude building, and impacting before the slider had fully descended.

Insults are only personal attacks if the subject is a poster. If JA signs up to the forums it'd all have to stop... till then anyone can call him a tard.

Whoa you guys! How many threads can we have going about the same person at one time?

I've heard of splitting threads when the topics start to drift, but I've never seen so many threads about pretty much the same thing.

Wouldn't this question fit just fine under the "John Agnos discussion" thread?

Good point and taken on board, but I split it to another thread to ask a seroius question about the guy away from the thread bashing him in the hope that Id get an objective answer rather than just another flame. At least in my eyes that was a valid reason, but I dont have a problem if the thread is chopped and appended to the other thread if you feel thats where it should be.

This much you are right, I agree with fully.

For everyone else that answered, thanks for filling me in on the missing parts of the puzzle.
I had missed the part about it being the third time, and didnt realise the way that he was using the broadcasts.

I am now beginning to see why he is making himself unpopular.
Hes hardly a good spokesman for the sport.

Thanks for the replies :)

On a side note, hes a good reminder for people like me, that I still have a lifetimes knowledge to absorb about canopy behavior and control in skydiving where I at least have a greater margin for error :)