Fark Me™: Benno drops 1,000m - and walks away with nosebleed

[hyperD]

A PARACHUTIST making his first high-altitude jump came came down to earth with a bump when his parachute failed to open properly — and then got up and walked away.
Benno Jacobs thought he had simply landed badly when he hit the ground 60 seconds after falling 1,000 metres (330 ft) from a small aircraft.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...323120,00.html

Was that our Benno? Not, sure... didn't see any reference to it being Thatcher's fault.

Nice to see the Times journalist has a bit of a problem converting SI to imperial units.

[wendigo100]

Nice to see the Times journalist has a bit of a problem converting SI to imperial units.

He's missing a zero. Doesn't our benn0 end in a zero as well?

[DaveB]

It's the final paragraph that got me

In the same year, at Malindi on the Kenyan coast, Lieutenant Charlie Williams of the Irish Guards fell more than 1,000 metres headfirst with his feet caught in the cords of his tangled parachute. He was unable to pull his reserve. He was saved when he plunged through the corrugated roof of a hut and only suffered three cracked vertebrae and a dis- located finger.

Now THATS hard.

[wendigo100]

He was Irish guards - you know what they say about falling over when you are p1ssed.