The Lemon Fool

I loved this "fact":

UK charity parachute jumpers injure themselves so frequently that, for every £1 they raise for charity, they cost the public health system £13.75

--kiloran

That was the allegation that made me hesitant to state these were all real 'facts', hence my use of 'allegedly' in the title.

Makes me wonder how the benefit-to-charity vs cost-to-NHS balance worked out on this story I just read on the BBC...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... e-54696016

Gengulphus

This caught my attention:

5. There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.

XFool wrote:This caught my attention:

5. There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.

If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_skydiving is to be believed, NomoneyNohoney's use of "allegedly" is fully justified...

Gengulphus

On the other hand, jumping without any parachute at all has been done, you just need a big net to catch you....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2W_QC5vKs

I was told that if there were any problems with the parachute, just bring it back and they will happily swap it for another one.

The second bit of wisdom was to cross your legs...........
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Then they could unscrew you from the ground.