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Thom Little Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 03:51 PM
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Get pregnant. Go skydiving. SPLAT! (and live). Should make a great mom!
Shayna Richardson was making her first solo skydiving jump when she had trouble with her parachutes and, while falling at about 50 mph, hit face first in a parking lot.

Although badly hurt, she survived - and doctors treating her injuries discovered she was pregnant. Four surgeries and two months later, Richardson said she and the fetus are doing fine.

"Just this last week we went and saw the doctor and we've got arms, we've got legs. We've got a full face. The baby is moving around just fine. The heart rate looks good. So not only did God save me but he spared this baby," she said.

.......

Rescuers got her to a hospital in Fayetteville, where Richardson underwent surgery. She broke her pelvis in two places, broke her leg, lost six teeth and now has 15 steel plates.



http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SKYDIVERS_PLUNGE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:09 PM
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1. She didn't know she was pregnant.
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 04:09 PM by Misunderestimator
:eyes:
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:53 PM
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16. Correct
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:56 PM
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20. Pregnant females are supposed to be omniscient!
Psychic! Omnipotent!

If there's a problem in the world today, then dammit, somehow it's a woman's fault!

:P
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:13 PM
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2. Forget it
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 04:23 PM by johnnie
Not in the mood to answer a lot of questions today.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:15 PM
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4. so are all skydivers stupid?
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:47 PM
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12. Gee, thanks for the ringing endorsement, progster.
Redstone
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:52 PM
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14. ha ha
Of course you know I don't think skydivers are stupid. I've got friends and family members who have jumped out of airplanes. Just trying to figure out exactly what Johnnie was trying to say there.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:53 PM
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15. (I was joking.)
Redstone
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:54 PM
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17. (i know)
:P









...and will respond to your PM as soon as i have 5 minutes to myself :)
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:55 PM
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18. (Good.)
Reply whenever. I'll be here.

Redstone
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:15 PM
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5. Ok... so, tell me... how is it that you think she was stupid?
just curious...
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:20 PM
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7. Because smart people don't jump out of perfectly good airplanes
:D
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:42 PM
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8. Yeah, well, that's different. That's a judgment on skydiving...
not a judgment on skydiving while pregnant... which seemed to be the implication. :D
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:44 PM
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10. Now getting pregnant WHILE skydiving, that's a something
completely different :P
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:44 PM
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9. Ahem. Some of us do. Or did, actually. Mrs R told me that as long as I'm
married to her, I can only jump out of the airplane if there's something REALLY wrong with it.

Gee, thanks for the option, dear wife o'mine; if I'm not INTENDING to jump, I'm not likely to be taking a damn chute up with me, am I, so that kind of says I can't EVER jump again...

Oh. Never mind. I just figured out what she was really telling me.

Redstone

(PS: I only treed once. And it didn't hurt.)
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:44 PM
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11. Don't mind me, that's just old lines we used to harrass airborne types
when I was in the Army :P
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:49 PM
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13. Ah, those maniacs. I wasn't one of them.
Christ, come to think of it, I was dumber than them, so I probably shouldn't have said that.

Ever free-rappel out of a helicopter? Dumbest thing on the face of the planet to do. But fun.

Redstone
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:59 PM
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21. No, but I have out of a 200 foot high tower :P n/t
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:14 PM
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3. ...
:wtf:
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:19 PM
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6. Makes you wonder who packed her chute . . . . n/t
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:55 PM
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19. Someone else posted a picture of her earlier. Topless. Skydiving.
It wasn't a solo dive.
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