I don’t think he meant to do that. The dude was out flying a kite, minding his own business, and then he got swept off his feet by a light breeze. It happens to the best of us, but he couldn’t have been in a more unfortunate location. Other than hanging over a vat of rotating, acid-covered knives , there’s not too many ways it could get worse.
I wasn’t too worried though — he was wearing his helmet, and that makes all the difference.
Flying goes against everything a human is meant to do. You have to be really bad at everything to be able to fly. You would have to be the sort of person who ate the gum off the bottom of their desk and called the teacher mommy in grammar school to fly. It seems like they don’t get the concept it all. We’re here on the ground with an obvious lack of wings or flying ability of any sort, and somehow there are still people who forget that gravity exists. Someone should offer night classes or something on how to not fly, or run a PSA about the dangers of jumping off cliffs.
(Many thanks to Gerard at American Digest for passing this one along)
This guy was about three inches away from making a LiveLeak video, but it didn’t pan out so he’s going to have to settle for YouTube. I can only assume he was hired to make a video titled “Basejumper Horrendously Rips Legs Off And Crashes Into Building”, but decided that he wasn’t getting paid enough to follow through. He still managed to drag his butt along the mountainside the way a dog wipes his butt on a carpet, so he got pretty darn close.
I’m not all too impressed though. Until he can do all that without spilling his beer there’s really no point in going on.
Call me an old fogie, but I would have liked this video just as much if the plane stayed in one piece. I find the booming and zooming of a light aircraft to be absolutely delightful. Even though this video confirms my distrust of small planes, I still think they’re cool. They sort of remind me of tigers with wings. They’re absurd, dangerous, and difficult to operate, but that doesn’t seem to keep this fellow from landing one without a propeller. A plane that is, I don’t believe tigers can actually grow wings.