What chu talkin bout Willis? Strange stories....

[MiamiTreo3]

Never understood the appeal of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane!

[FVD]

Skydiving is something I've always wanted to do. The feeling of flying through the air, the adrenaline rush, that appeals to me.

RIP to Mr Steele. At least you got to go out doing something you loved doing.

[Panoptes]

Skydiving is something I've always wanted to do. The feeling of flying through the air, the adrenaline rush, that appeals to me.

RIP to Mr Steele. At least you got to go out doing something you loved doing.

It has to be one of the greatest, life affirming feelings there is for a human to go through.

At least it was for me (I woke up on my 30thd birthday and drove all by myself to do it because it was something I had put off to that point).

Once you stop free falling (at about 120 MPH for about a minute +) and you deploy your chute, for the first time in your life you will understand the beauty of silence (it is noiseless up there). Throw in the added bonus of the visual sensation of seeing Earth from that angle and it is defintely something you will not forget.

Just do it..........you only live once.

[CGVT]

Birdshit and idiots...

[Sharkbait]

Skydiving is something I've always wanted to do. The feeling of flying through the air, the adrenaline rush, that appeals to me.

RIP to Mr Steele. At least you got to go out doing something you loved doing.

I've got vertigo. Don't think I'll be a falling idiot anytime soon.

[Panoptes]

I did it to get over my slight fear of flying.

The best part of the whole thing was getting away (jumping as fast as I could) from that friggen Buddy Holly plane.

Still don't like flying.

Love parachuting though.

[CGVT]

OK, I understand that this is awful on many fronts, but it is funny as hell on others...


(CNN) -- A Connecticut woman pleaded for police to "please hurry" to save a friend from an attack by a pet chimpanzee, according to emotional 911 recordings released Tuesday by Stamford police.

"He's ripping her apart," Sandra Herold, 70, tells dispatchers about her pet, Travis.

With the chimp squealing in the background, Herold cries out, "He's killed my friend!"

The victim, Charla Nash, 55, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after the chimp, once featured in television commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, attacked her Monday afternoon, police said.

Nash had just arrived at Herold's house when Travis jumped on her and began biting and mauling her, causing serious injuries to her face, neck and hands, according to Stamford Police Capt. Rich Conklin. Conklin said the attack was unprovoked, but he described it as "brutal and lengthy." VideoWatch how owner made frantic call to police ?

Herold had called Nash to her house to help get 14-year-old Travis back inside after he used a key to escape.

While her friend was being attacked, Herold was unable to pull the primate off. She then called 911 before stabbing the chimp with a butcher knife and hitting him with a shovel. Neither fazed Travis, who police said had been like a child to Herold.

A Stamford police officer later shot the chimp multiple times after the primate went after him inside a police cruiser, Conklin said. Travis returned to the house, where police found him dead. Conklin estimated that Travis weighed close to 200 pounds.

Conklin couldn't confirm media reports that the chimp had Lyme disease, though he did say investigators were taking their time with the case to determine what may have provoked Travis to attack Nash. Animals often do not exhibit symptoms of Lyme disease, caused by the bite of certain types of ticks, although aggression is a possible symptom, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Conklin said Nash had recently gotten a haircut that changed her appearance significantly. Conklin said the chimp had been acting "rambunctious" earlier, prompting Herold to put Xanax in a cup of tea for him to drink. He did not know if the animal had been prescribed the medicine or if Herold had ever given her pet such a mixture before. VideoWatch wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin talk about the dangers of chimps ?

Conklin added that his department is not used to dealing with cases such as this, and they were trying to familiarize themselves with laws and regulations before deciding if charges will be filed.

Conklin said this isn't the first interaction his officers have had with Travis. The chimp, who was well known and liked in the community, escaped in 2003 and "wreaked havoc" on the streets of Stamford for a couple of hours, Conklin said.

Travis' body was removed from the home and taken to two locations: His head was taken to the state lab for a rabies test and the body was taken to the University of Connecticut for an animal autopsy. Conklin said this is standard procedure.

The chimp, who was known to walk around town, sometimes without a leash, also liked to surf on the Internet and was able to change the TV channel with a remote, according to a Stamford Advocate article. The paper also reported that Travis watered plants, was able to feed hay to his owner's horses, ate at a table with the rest of the family and sometimes drank wine from a stemmed glass.

[Aesop]

that is one of the most ridiculous things ive ever read


is that serious?

[romster]

That is so awful. That poor chimp. <sniff>

[romster]

Just trying to get DanO riled up...

[DanO]

LMAO.

GO LIONS "09" !!!!!!!!!

[CGVT]

Ha!

[CGVT]

BTW, I especially like this line...

The chimp, who was well known and liked in the community

[Coop]

well,

shooting a dog can't be considered that out of line from shooting a chimp..

[Aesop]

shooting a chimpanzee is closer to shooting a human than a dog, so there's no outrage.

as long as its something psuedo human, the animal rights activists dont care.

reminds me of a story from last year when i lived in chicago.. i'm going to try and find it