Florida Man™ Strikes Again!

Kinja'd!!! "user314" (user314)
09/27/2017 at 16:32 • Filed to: Florida Man, paraglider, Planelopnik, zot!

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A !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! paraglider is lucky to be alive after he slammed Tuesday morning into power lines carrying 7,200 volts of electricity, knocking out electricity in a St. Petersburg neighborhood

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Paragliders have long plagued the neighborhood, [neighbor] Jim Tallon said. “You could start a house on fire, he could kill himself,” the fed-up resident said. “He could hurt somebody on the ground. There is a child’s playground right down there.”


DISCUSSION (4)


Kinja'd!!! TheRealBicycleBuck > user314
09/27/2017 at 17:21

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Slammed? More like floated gently.

The pilot didn’t have a chute collapse, he had an engine failure.

This is nothing more than hyperbole to make fearful people more fearful.


Kinja'd!!! Brian, The Life of > user314
09/27/2017 at 17:30

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Nah. If Florida Man (TM) were actually involved, he would have been the one shooting the guy out of the wires.


Kinja'd!!! Kiltedpadre > user314
09/27/2017 at 17:34

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Maybe Florida Man was testing out a new meth home delivery service and got a little too low on approach.


Kinja'd!!! Stephenson Valve Gear > user314
09/28/2017 at 20:35

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Birds land on power lines all the time, no problem. Florida Man was just trying to follow their lead...