Sky King style paramotor suicide

[Pain In The Ass]

Costs about £3000 for used gear and with basic training - fly up to 2000ft, or more if you fancy - the limit is 18,000ft - unhook your seatbelt and push yourself forwards out of the seat, making sure you land on concrete, tarmac, etc - you could do it in the middle of the night if you wanted, so it's pitch black and you can't see as much, to minimize SI when leaving the chair. It's the easiest and cheapest way to replicate a Sky king style death, and you can launch them without assistance.

 

[Shu]

I'm sorry.. please don't take this the wrong way but this is one of those threads I laugh at when I read it.

 

[Hollowman]

Hopefully it doesn't come down on someone.

 

[its-about-time]

Ridiculously intricate ways to ctb are fun thoughts but still ridiculous, I'd be worried falling on someone, the gear landing on someone, and the trauma people would face if you landed in a neighborhood etc … why would you want to possibly expose kids to that? Maybe out in the wilderness or something… I wonder what the effect would be of landing in the trees. Hit right, they really break the fall. But I mean how wrong can you really go in a 2,000+Ft fall?

 

[yeh it's all gucci]

You could do it over the ocean.

 

[Red Scare]

People have survived failed sky diving attempts when the parachute and even back up chute failed to open.

That's enough reason for me to rule this method out, and even jumping.

 

[its-about-time]

People have survived failed sky diving attempts when the parachute and even back up chute failed to open.

That's enough reason for me to rule this method out, and even jumping.

You think your life sucks now, just wait until every single bone in your body is broken and they're trying to piece you back together for months in the hospital. Yeah that scared me off jumping too, people survive impossible falls and the aftermath isn't very ermmm nice.

 

[Pain In The Ass]

I'm sorry.. please don't take this the wrong way but this is one of those threads I laugh at when I read it.

I was aware of its comedic value!

People have survived failed sky diving attempts when the parachute and even back up chute failed to open.

That's enough reason for me to rule this method out, and even jumping.

They are freak events, landing on hay bails, falling into a sponge factory or a trampoline warehouse. If you drop from 3000ft onto a concrete part of town, yer gonna die with a better success rate than the twin towers jumpers, which was 100%

 

[Al_stargate]

 

[Pain In The Ass]

Bill is the greatest American comedian alive, along with Doug Stanhope - no American comedian comes close to those two. To create a joke that ends with 'There is a happy ending though... he died later that day', that's comedy intelligence. How anyone can even classify Joe Rogan as a comedian is beyond me. He makes great podcasts, but he's not a comedian, because his jokes are not funny, which is kind of a necessary requirement for the job.

You think your life sucks now, just wait until every single bone in your body is broken and they're trying to piece you back together for months in the hospital. Yeah that scared me off jumping too, people survive impossible falls and the aftermath isn't very ermmm nice.

People who survive from 2000ft or more accidentally fall into trucks carrying mattresses or bouncy castles at children's parties and weird shit like that. 9/11 jumpers fell max 1500 ft and they all exploded on impact.

 

[Al_stargate]

Bill is the greatest American comedian alive, along with Doug Stanhope - no American comedian comes close to those two. To create a joke that ends with 'There is a happy ending though... he died later that day', that's comedy intelligence. How anyone can even classify Joe Rogan as a comedian is beyond me. He makes great podcasts, but he's not a comedian, because his jokes are not funny, which is kind of a necessary requirement for the job.

People who survive from 2000ft or more accidentally fall into trucks carrying mattresses or bouncy castles at children's parties and weird shit like that. 9/11 jumpers fell max 1500 ft and they all exploded on impact.

Bill Burr is great, agree. Perhaps one of the best standup comedians alive but best comedian in general, wouldn't say that. Comedy is just such a diverse field and too subjective to people's tastes. George Carlin is probably the greatest standup comedian ever. The body of work, absolutely hilarious and thought-provoking. Agree about Joe Rogan.
There was a flight attendant who survived falling from an airplane at 10,160 meters or 33,330 feet in the air, so nothing is certain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović

 

[Pain In The Ass]

Bill Burr is great, agree. Perhaps one of the best standup comedians alive but best comedian in general, wouldn't say that. Comedy is just such a diverse field and too subjective to people's tastes. George Carlin is probably the greatest standup comedian ever. The body of work, absolutely hilarious and thought-provoking. Agree about Joe Rogan.
There was a flight attendant who survived falling from an airplane at 10,160 meters or 33,330 feet in the air, so nothing is certain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović

The only qualm I have with these statements about comedians, is that you have to say 'greatest AMERICAN standup comedian ever' - there could be a comedian in Bulgaria who is 'greater' than George Carlin, Bill Hicks or Richard Pryor, but you'd never know because you don't speak their language. Americans don't have a monopoly on 'greatest' comedians ever, however much they like to think they do! There are some British comedians who I find way funnier than any of those, but Americans can't understand them because the subject matter of their jokes you would only get if you were British, and their northern accents are hard to understand to anyone outside the UK. Stewart Lee is the best British comedian alive in my opinion, but if you don't understand the context of the character he is playing, you wouldn't have a clue what's going on or why the audience are laughing.

It doesn't say anything on that page about what she landed on - she couldn't have landed on concrete, surely!

UPDATE - Investigators believed that the fuselage, with Vulović pinned inside, landed at an angle in a heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside, which cushioned the impact.

 

[unkuto]

If someone is going to waste 3k euro for something dumb like that they'd better consider spending 1/3 of this money for N instead.

 

[Pain In The Ass]

If someone is going to waste 3k euro for something dumb like that they'd better consider spending 1/3 of this money for N instead.

All I'm saying is, it's the cheapest way to emulate the Sky Kings method, if you don't have access to a De Havilland Dash 8 aircraft, that's all!

 

[Pain In The Ass]

Bump - lots of talk recently of falling methods - if you have 3K and a few hours for training, fly up to 10,000ft (18,000ft max) and you have a 100% guaranteed method - unless you do something really dumb like fall into a passing truck carrying foam mattress or feather pillows. Even then you'd be pretty fucked up!

 

[HopefulButPrepared]

People have survived failed sky diving attempts when the parachute and even back up chute failed to open.

That's enough reason for me to rule this method out, and even jumping.

there;s always more to these stories than people make out - no one falls 15,000ft without anything breaking their fall, onto concrete, and lives - there's always something helping to break their fall