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http://www.bbc.com/...affordshire-30673514

so does anyone know what happened?

According to the BBC "Tamworth base jumper falls 300ft without parachute". He was "fortunate to escape serious injury"

Was this a turn held into the ground or did he open dirty low? Maybe the magic rainbow tide drift failed and that's why his parachute didn't open (I hate it when that happens). Glad the jumper is mostly ok

Non of the UK regulars/locals seem to know anything about it apart from what the papers say.
Seeing as it was at 08:30 (day light) on a 1,000ft A, visible from one of the busiest roads in the UK, I would be surprised if anyone owns up.

I do know a couple of guys climbed down a few hrs earlier due to winds.


Laters,

Julian.

Tar and feathers?

This is England, not 1980's America.

Tea and Crumpets then?

Fish and chips!


This is getting stupid quick

God no.

Will will just form an orderly queue and mutter under our breath about it.

Laters,

Denial of dental care for 30 years and make him marry an ugly chick with pale skin and a nasally voice.

But King Richard I, also known as Richard Cœur de Lion was more French than English...

Well, that escalated quickly.

Alternatively, send him to California where he can score a drop-dead gorgeous porn star who within 5 years has ballooned to 350lbs, is confined to a mobility scooter, addicted to prescription drugs, needs her arse wiping for her and has a voice like Robert Shaw's fingernails scraping down the blackboard in Jaws.

And the English Windsors are more German than English, and Russia's Catherine the Great was German and most European royalty is inbred and/or inter-bred across multiple national boundaries so your point is....?




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... to mess with the Brits.

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damn you POME's!!!

Touche. LOL.

Smack talking our indigenous female-folk aside, the sad reality for you guys in the US is that for a UK jumper who is accustomed to the more relaxed (even casual) attitude to getting busted jumping, sending them across the pond for a taste of anti-BASE authoritarianism would be a fate worse than tar and feathers.

Yep^^ please continue with jibes about our national cuisine etc but British jumpers aren't creating threads about fingerprinting at legal event and NPS rangers with rifle etc , Land of the free hey ;-) Go merica

to be fair, British jumpers aren't managing to arrange *any* legal events on home turf at the moment, so credit to our US brethren on that front (especially in the face of such adversity).

It's truly shocking and sad to see a country whose very constitution was formulated to protect individual rights and freedoms and limit the bullying interference of government treating benign sportsmen/hobbyists as criminal threats. Something has gone stupendously wrong when jumpers the world over wouldn't think twice about bandit jumping buildings in Russia or China (with their police state and totalitarian recent histories) but would steer well clear of jumping without permission in the US.

Ah damn reasonable response with no room for continuing banter / slagging what's this forum coming to? :-/

Oh nooooo. There's always room for some good old-fashioned anglo/french xenophobia!

so he is ok then?........