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no_to_war_economy Donating Member (962 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:10 PM
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Pregnant Skydiver Survives Plunge
"So not only did God save me but he spared this baby," Richardson said.

Richardson, 21, of Joplin, Mo., was making her first solo jump in Siloam Springs, Ark., on Oct. 9 when her main parachute failed and her reserve chute didn't fully deploy.

Richardson was falling at about 50 mph when she hit face first in a parking lot. Badly injured, but alive, Richardson spent 16 days in a hospital.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20051213/D8EFCGOO7.html
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:14 PM
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1. So I guess the devil was responsible for the chute not opening
properly.
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SeattleVet Donating Member (708 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:14 PM
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2. If I recall my basic physics correctly, you almost always survive
the "plunge" part of this type of thing.

It's the extremely rapid deceleration when you contact that high-drag area known as the lithosphere that does you in.

I'm happy to see she survived that part of it, too.
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:15 PM
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3. She must love that sport. She's going back after the baby is born.
"I went into the first surgery where they cut me from ear to ear and they cut my face down and they took out all the fractured egg-shelled bones and put in steel plates," Richardson said.

During treatment, doctors found that Richardson was pregnant, which was a surprise to her.

She said she would not have jumped had she known she was pregnant."
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:15 PM
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4. If I lived through that, I'd chalk it up to God as well.
Badly injured or not, she really should have died.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:15 PM
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5. She made her first solo jump while pregnant?!
Not real akamai, like we'd say out here!
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:21 PM
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11. She didn't know she was pregnant at the time.
They discovered that while treating her in the hospital.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:16 PM
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6. Why the hell was she sky diving
while pregnant? Forgive me for being unenlightened but that seems just plain stupid to my simple mind.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:18 PM
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8. According to the article, she didn't know she was pregnent.
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don954 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:17 PM
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7. i would say more luck than devine intervention
but they do say the gods protect fools and children...
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rd_kent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:20 PM
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9. If god was involved, he was responsible for the chute too?
I guess god WANTED her to fall to the ground, face first. Instead of thanking god she was spared, maybe she should look into her life and see why god punsihed her.

I think its all BS to begin with(I'm an Aetheist), just for the record.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:36 PM
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13. Relax, willya, Bunky?
A lot of people just use "God" as the "default variable" in the great mass of source code of their brain.

Besides, haven't you ever been in bed with anyone, doing The Nasty, and one or both of you cried out "Oh, God!"

Actually, I was once dating a staunch Humanist. When she got going, she'd call out, "Occam! Occam!" But, wisely, I think, I decided not to try pushing her out of an aircraft without a chute.

:evilgrin:

--p!
Extraordinary Sex Requires Extraordinary Expletives.
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tx_dem41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:20 PM
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10. If you do the math, she was all of 2 weeks pregnant when this happened.
n/t
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:29 PM
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12. baby
What if she had the baby in flight, where was its parachute?
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Angry Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:43 PM
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14. Some chick with a chute gets knocked up. Big f*cking deal!
Do you know how many woman are able to do the same? Why do they act like her pregnancy is such a miracle? And you didn't think this was a Christian, child-centric society! Ha!
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