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Old 08-20-2008, 12:42 AM
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Talking Hurricane Fay, kite surfing.

I bet this guy doesn't do this again, if he lived. Some of those extreme sports freaks are just not so smart!

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Old 08-20-2008, 12:56 AM
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frackin dumbass got what he deserved. You mess with mother nature and she WILL hand your *** to you in a shopping bag.
 
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Old 08-20-2008, 01:51 AM
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Yeah that's for sure. I just wish I knew if he lived through it, that could have easily killed him! But we could just chalk it up to self selective cancellation of defective gene pools.
 
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Old 08-20-2008, 05:54 AM
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looks like fun, but id do it in a less deadly place, like a larger beach, or off of a boat in the ocean or sumpthin
 
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Old 08-20-2008, 05:59 AM
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Hey a hurricane is about to hit the coast lets go wind surfing, what could possable go wrong. insert smiley rolling his eyes here > <
 
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Old 08-20-2008, 01:14 PM
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haha thats funny but what a dumbass
 
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Old 08-20-2008, 01:22 PM
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why did'nt he let go the first time he smacked the ground? are your hands tied to that ****? and +1 to the dumbass part too.
 
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Old 08-20-2008, 01:23 PM
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My dad was stationed in Guam during a hurricane in the SAGE building there. They took a wool blanket the troops are issued, stable-gunned it to a 2x4 cross in the shape of a kite, and tied some rappelling rope to it and went to the roof and chucked it into the air. He said it took 4 of them to hold it.
 
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Old 08-20-2008, 04:54 PM
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You probably can't see it in that crappy film but those guys use a harness with a quick release simular to a parachute rip cord. Only problem was that the wind yanked his *** up so fast, he couldn't get to the release. Then he got slammed to the sand and probably knocked senseless before it took him toward the buildings where it drove him into the concrete. Like Srob said, mother nature will kick your ***!
 


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