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(BBC) Spiffy 97 year-old man becomes Britain's oldest skydiver, leaps out of a plane at 10,000 feet and somehow manages to avoid hitting any farmers markets on the way down   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line 18
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tedbundee 2009-04-04 11:40:30 AM  
Pussy. He waits until he has nothing to lose to make such a high-risk jump.

 
JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm 2009-04-04 11:42:18 AM  
What is it about farmers markets that make them like a magnet to old people in big cars?

 
gnaunited 2009-04-04 11:46:38 AM  
JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: What is it about farmers markets that make them like a magnet to old people in big cars?

It reminds them of the old country?

 
Young Rory Calhoun 2009-04-04 11:50:57 AM  
Did he float down at 20mph with his left turn signal on the whole way??

 
Lynerd88 2009-04-04 12:08:18 PM  
Young Rory Calhoun: Did he float down at 20mph with his left turn signal on the whole way??

I don't know but I'm guessing he took off his dentures and left his walker on the ground

 
t3knomanser 2009-04-04 12:14:24 PM  
This movie just sets you up for something great and then lets you down. There could be dozens of grandmas jumping out of this plane right now!

//Nothing is obscure on Fark

 
Red Shirt Blues 2009-04-04 12:17:10 PM  
i287.photobucket.com

Approves

 
JoeCowboy 2009-04-04 01:42:20 PM  
You'd think the flabby old people skin would have killed him on the way down

JC

 
dkimball 2009-04-04 01:46:20 PM  
Doesn't count if you are strapped to someone younger.

Solo jump record...what is it?

 
jerseyblogger 2009-04-04 01:46:50 PM  
upon landing on the grass, told youngsters to get off his lawn,

 
The_Pirate 2009-04-04 02:10:58 PM  
popwatch.ew.com

Not impressed.

 
chopit 2009-04-04 02:53:44 PM  
dkimball: Doesn't count if you are strapped to someone younger.

Solo jump record...what is it?


In terms of numbers, age, height? What are you asking?

There are jumpers with 40k skydives. I know a guy in his 80s who still jumps regularly, and he's not the oldest active jumper. Then there's Col. Kittinger, who fell from the edge of space.

 
The Drunk IT Guy [TotalFark] 2009-04-04 02:57:25 PM  
Superb genetics in that one. He looks like he stopped aging at 80!

 
hechz 2009-04-04 04:33:08 PM  
dkimball: Doesn't count if you are strapped to someone younger.

Solo jump record...what is it?


There's a lady in her 80s that still jumps at a DZ south of Lake Okeechobee.

 
adamgeld 2009-04-04 11:49:47 PM  
JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: What is it about farmers markets that make them like a magnet to old people in big cars?

Superior food quality? Healthier lifestyle?

 
fnordest 2009-04-05 12:22:47 AM  
I believe "Smitty the Jumper" made his last solo jump at 76. Not as old as some mentioned, but can any of them say that they made a lifetime of jumping? His first jump was in 1928 when he was known as "Smitty the Daredevil" for his wing walking exploits.

/proud to say I met him
//the stories he told me over dinner vary somewhat from bios

 
Squidfartz 2009-04-05 02:32:05 AM  
Funniest headline in ages. Well done.

 
m0ther_farker 2009-04-05 05:10:13 AM  
I'm sitting here...trying to type coherently....when some old sweaty betty comes crashin through mah rooftop there....i can hardly contain me weiner (dog).... (mate?)

 
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