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"a man carrying a suitcase floating ..."
Found this on the Intarweb.
Funny. I wonder what type of cigarette he was smoking.
Take care,
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"Man seen 'parachuting' off Xxxxxxxxxx

Bored city dwellers may have found an extreme new way to get high - base jumping off the Xxxxxxxxxxx.

A witness called Police at 9.27pm on Friday after seeing a man carrying a suitcase floating down from the iconic building in Xxxxxxxx,. Police rushed to the scene within 10 minutes, but could not find anything.

A shocked resident of the building said her son-in-law was having a cigarette on the balcony when he saw several men parachuting past.

"He heard a swishing sound and he saw them. There were five or six of them and they landed on top of the trees facing the Road next to the site of Xxxxxxxxxx Residential Home.

"There were lots of photographers down there and they were being filmed. By the time the police and ambulance got here, they were gone."

The resident, who condemned the act as highly dangerous, added: "It could have been that someone left the gate open and someone got up on the roof. There's no other way they could get up there.""
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Re: [base283] "a man carrying a suitcase floating ..."
An iconic building in our history in many ways, LaughFrown. Fair play Guys. Nice One.
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Re: [Cal.B229] "a man carrying a suitcase floating ..."
Cal.B229 wrote:
Fair play Guys. Nice One.

Five or six? 9.27pm? Photographers? Landed on trees? Ambulance and police called? How is that nice?
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Re: [cpoxon] "a man carrying a suitcase floating ..."
read between the lines.
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Re: [Cal.B229] "a man carrying a suitcase floating ..."
what this the B Frank Donnellan went in on ?
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Re: [vid666] "a man carrying a suitcase floating ..."
Must be. He is the only known B fatality from 1982...

Nick, thoughts?
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Re: [vid666] "a man carrying a suitcase floating ..."
Yep, thats the one. And jumped without any media attention for nearly 30 years , until now.Frown