Skydiving Accident- Big Owie!

[Zeuceone]

Was thinking about going to do this for my upcoming birthday but that's a good reason not to. Hope everything works out for the better for you.

Originally Posted by Zeuceone

Was thinking about going to do this for my upcoming birthday but that's a good reason not to. Hope everything works out for the better for you.

Hey...Do it!
Accidents happen everywhere.
Even if you only do it once. Do it.
It's something you'll remember your whole life...unless you die.

[kaisersozei]

Originally Posted by Katmancross

Hey...Do it!
Accidents happen everywhere.
Even if you only do it once. Do it.
It's something you'll remember your whole life...unless you die.

You'd still remember it, just for not as long.

Just wondered if I could hear other horror stories about human structural destruction

I earned the title of "Robo-Jew" a while ago.

Being able to set off a metal detector wearing nothing but your underwear does lead to some great conversations.

Left foot is held together with screws and plates.

Left knee has zero stability left (mulitiple ACL/PCL/LCL/MCL injuries and Patellar tendon tears)

Left hip has a bolt in it.

Left scapula has a plate with three screws.

Right lower jaw has a plate and two implants.

Tailbone removed (easier to explain than naming the surgery - normal responses are "'WHAT WAS CUT OFF????"")

Fractured a total of 9 vertebrae - but no breaks (thank G-d!).

oh yeah...I'm a paratooper in the US Army...graduated Jump School in 1990

Originally Posted by tobii3

I earned the title of "Robo-Jew" a while ago.

Being able to set off a metal detector wearing nothing but your underwear does lead to some great conversations.

Left foot is held together with screws and plates.

Left knee has zero stability left (mulitiple ACL/PCL/LCL/MCL injuries and Patellar tendon tears)

Left hip has a bolt in it.

Left scapula has a plate with three screws.

Right lower jaw has a plate and two implants.

Tailbone removed (easier to explain than naming the surgery - normal responses are "'WHAT WAS CUT OFF????"")

Fractured a total of 9 vertebrae - but no breaks (thank G-d!).

oh yeah...I'm a paratooper in the US Army...graduated Jump School in 1990

Was it from one jump or several and if several, how many did it take before they said "You're done."

Originally Posted by tobii3

I earned the title of "Robo-Jew" a while ago.

Being able to set off a metal detector wearing nothing but your underwear does lead to some great conversations.

Left foot is held together with screws and plates.

Left knee has zero stability left (mulitiple ACL/PCL/LCL/MCL injuries and Patellar tendon tears)

Left hip has a bolt in it.

Left scapula has a plate with three screws.

Right lower jaw has a plate and two implants.

Tailbone removed (easier to explain than naming the surgery - normal responses are "'WHAT WAS CUT OFF????"")

Fractured a total of 9 vertebrae - but no breaks (thank G-d!).

oh yeah...I'm a paratooper in the US Army...graduated Jump School in 1990

I'm guessing you are living off the teat of the US Government at this point?
I can't imagine being able to do much with that kind of damage.

[kaisersozei]

Originally Posted by tobii3

I earned the title of "Robo-Jew" a while ago.

"Terminator" is more like it

[mosesbotbol]

Originally Posted by Katmancross

Hey...Do it!
Accidents happen everywhere.
Even if you only do it once. Do it.
It's something you'll remember your whole life...unless you die.

Got to agree, I remember it like yesterday and rush once I landed was one of the biggest I ever felt. Talk about feeling alive!



19000 ft is really high, wow!

I did a free fall parachute jump once about 12 years ago. Had to take a weekend course and I think we jumped at 13000 ft. I had maybe 30 seconds of free fall with an instructor on each side of me watching me complete the steps to "pass the jump".

I am sorry to read you have gone through so much pain and suffering. Not to rub it in, but my landing was like a two foot jump onto a pillow. One of my friends fluffed his chute too early and smacked the ground. The other friend did it fine like me.

We you able to steer the chute or were the cables too far behind you?

Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

Got to agree, I remember it like yesterday and rush once I landed was one of the biggest I ever felt. Talk about feeling alive!



19000 ft is really high, wow!

I did a free fall parachute jump once about 12 years ago. Had to take a weekend course and I think we jumped at 13000 ft. I had maybe 30 seconds of free fall with an instructor on each side of me watching me complete the steps to "pass the jump".

I am sorry to read you have gone through so much pain and suffering. Not to rub it in, but my landing was like a two foot jump onto a pillow. One of my friends fluffed his chute too early and smacked the ground. The other friend did it fine like me.

We you able to steer the chute or were the cables too far behind you?

I don't remember.

[replicant_argent]

He didn't say he was any good at jumping out of planes, Tim! LOL

Accident prone in the dark? Yeah.. that's another matter, eh, Tobster?

[replicant_argent]

Technically, Tob invented the sport when he was diving off the elephants when Hannibal brought them across the Alps, but it wasn't really "Sky" diving. Just Tob being drunk, accident prone, and trying to impress the locals with his witty ways.

Originally Posted by replicant_argent

Technically, Tob invented the sport when he was diving off the elephants when Hannibal brought them across the Alps, but it wasn't really "Sky" diving. Just Tob being drunk, accident prone, and trying to impress the locals with his witty ways.

So Tobi is around 85 years old? Or just looks it?

[replicant_argent]

Originally Posted by Katmancross

So Tobi is around 85 years old? Or just looks it?

Tob was 85 when fire was invented, they had to invent it to warm the cave, and figured 85 candles would take the chill off.

Originally Posted by replicant_argent

Tob was 85 when fire was invented, they had to invent it to warm the cave, and figured 85 candles would take the chill off.

This is the funniest g*d d**n thread I've ever seen.
None have ever made me laugh out loud so much.
I like this a lot better than being skewered personally by guys that hate my ridiculous Katman reviews.
You guys are a lot more fun.

[J0eybb]

Tobii is around 85 thousand years old.

If at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.

Holy crap...I can just FEEL the love here....

You never answered. What do you do know? Besides limp.

I've been known to drool, swing a frozen salmon or two, fall over my walker and occasionally get too drunk to type...or too drunk to occasionally type...or just drunk...

Long story short, according to the Army, who NEVER makes a mistake, I am a 25B - Informations Systems Operator-Analyst.

Even G-d doesn't know WTF that has to do with my job these days -

I started out a 72E but that was combined with a 72G then restructured to a 74C and further streamlined as a 25D that would be deactivated and redesignated a 25B. All in all, the original job was really cool....until the Internet showed up, that is.

On paper, I'm an Army EKMS manager. In reality, I'm the poor bastard locked in the basement.

Originally Posted by tobii3

Holy crap...I can just FEEL the love here....



I've been known to drool, swing a frozen salmon or two, fall over my walker and occasionally get too drunk to type...or too drunk to occasionally type...or just drunk...

Long story short, according to the Army, who NEVER makes a mistake, I am a 25B - Informations Systems Operator-Analyst.

Even G-d doesn't know WTF that has to do with my job these days -

I started out a 72E but that was combined with a 72G then restructured to a 74C and further streamlined as a 25D that would be deactivated and redesignated a 25B. All in all, the original job was really cool....until the Internet showed up, that is.

On paper, I'm an Army EKMS manager. In reality, I'm the poor bastard locked in the basement.

Because I have a high security clearance, I was able to see your "eyes only" file and found a photo of you at work.

Originally Posted by Katmancross

Because I have a high security clearance, I was able to see your "eyes only" file and found a photo of you at work.

Actually, that was our sister MOS - us "echos" were trained on these -



worked on these -



Then "upgraded" to these after Desert Shield -



Then, of course, the Internet showed up.

And we were put in the basement working behind one of these -

Originally Posted by tobii3

Actually, that was our sister MOS - us "echos" were trained on these -



worked on these -



Then "upgraded" to these after Desert Shield -



Then, of course, the Internet showed up.

And we were put in the basement working behind one of these -

You mixed up the photos. This is where pnoon (Peter) keeps his money and cigars.