Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3F133785.5457AE70@blueyonder.co.uk>...
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> > > > I take it then that skydiving is out?
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> > > Heh, we were just discussing this the other day. I worked in a mill as a
> > > teenager and we used to pile cardboard boxes in one of the delivery bays
> > > and dives from the top floor (about five stories up!) onto the boxes. I
> > > guess the fear made it an extra buzz for me, or my stupidity was greater
> > > than my fear, cos it still scared the heck out of me even as I did it.
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> > Was it really 50 feet? That does sound like fun. I'd try it if I
> > thought I had a good chance of avoiding injury, but I'd want to see you
> > do it first.
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> > Once in a student film I had someone jump off a bridge to a dry river
> > bed about 6 - 8 feet below. I did pad the ground a bit and I was sure
> > to do it first to show how to hit the mark and avoid injury.
> > Unfortunately the girl was slightly injured anyway. I never could
> > decide whether ot not to feel guilty.
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> > It was a nice shot... she jumps off the bridge, out of frame, then rises
> > into frame, sopping wet, out of a bathtub... but sadly the (completed)
> > film was destroyed by accident over the summer break. That film
> > contained my favorite quote from Breton:
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> > "We must surmount the depressing notion of the irreparable divorce of action
> > and dream."
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> :O) I probably exaggerated a little about the height, I'm lousy at that
> sort of stuff, but the building was a few stories and wool mills have
> very high ceilings. Cartons were industrial strength and we'd stack them
> about five deep, each carton being maybe four feet across, that was
> quite a block. One kid did fall through a couple of layers after a few
> jumps but the last two were sufficient to stop his fall. We were
> supposed to crush the cartons after use, so this was our way of doing
> it... much more fun than folding neatly.
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