-WiscoDave
Wednesday, December 06, 2023
Out of the frying pan and into the fire (ants)
Joan Murray experienced a skydiving mishap in 1999 when both of her parachutes malfunctioned, causing her to plummet 14,500 feet in the air above North Carolina. Although the fall would have resulted in her death, she fortunately landed on a mound of fire ants. It was not the mound that broke her fall and saved her life; rather, it was the 200-plus ant bites she received that kept her heart beating and adrenaline flowing.
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it's not the fall that kills, it's the sudden stop at the end.
ReplyDeleteRead that she died recently from cancer. Now waiting for all the alarmists to claim fire ants cause cancer. Cause that's how those folks roll.
ReplyDeleteWow! What a story...
ReplyDeleteI worked with a guy, one of the smartest people I ever met, who landed flat on his back on an airport runway after his chute failed. He recovered, married, had a daughter, who was another one of the smartest people I ever met. He died less than two blocks from his home when a driver ran a stop sign and smashed him and his motorcycle. Blessed to live long enough to have a daughter and see her graduate college.
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