21 December 2006

A gift for understatement

I think we can all agree that skydiver Michael Holmes has a subtle way with words. Faced with a 15,000 foot plunge to ground after both his main and his reserve chute failed to open he said to himself "shit I'm going to die" and then blacked out.

It turns out that he was wrong and he managed to somehow survive the fall with just a punctured lung and a broken ankle. Perhaps gravity is somehow different in New Zealand.

Note: I find it terribly amusing that The Sun cannot bring itself to actually spell out the word "shit" in the story, substituting the ever popular "s**t" in its place. This despite the fact that it flashes tits (NSFW) all over page 3 six days a week. Oh well. Its owned by Murdoch. What did we expect?

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