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Sazerac · 09-17-2002, 02:09 PM

This one's an urban legend, guys. (re: HOAX). There was no recorded accidents in South Carolina of a paratrooper forgetting his parachute. As Donut so astutely pointed out, no one could be so prescient as to be able to tell what he was thinking at 20,000 feet, and as the website where I checked this story pointed out, the camera and tape would have been completely obliterated by the fall, not just the last 10 seconds of it.

*sigh* Big waste of time...

-Sazerac

09-17-2002, 02:09 PM	#7
Sazerac Ironworks Moderator Join Date: January 7, 2001 Location: Monroe, LA Age: 61 Posts: 7,387	This one's an urban legend, guys. (re: HOAX). There was no recorded accidents in South Carolina of a paratrooper forgetting his parachute. As Donut so astutely pointed out, no one could be so prescient as to be able to tell what he was thinking at 20,000 feet, and as the website where I checked this story pointed out, the camera and tape would have been completely obliterated by the fall, not just the last 10 seconds of it. sigh Big waste of time... -Sazerac __________________ "And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams, Are where thy grey eye glances, and where thy footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams..."