Can you figure this one out?

[Lancstree]

BBC NEWS | Americas | US cleaner beats six-floor tumble

[Stephen Blair]

seems a bit dodgy to me.

[Graham]

I can relate to the 'surreal' part of it.

 

In my first month of self-employment 1987 I took a risk to speed the job up.

 

I free-climbed an ash to fix a steel winch rope from the tractor and fell. It was all over in seconds but the whole world went into slow motion as I hit a branch with my lower back which flicked me over. I landed on my hands and knees but in those few seconds falling I thought of my survival very clearly and without panic.

 

As soon as I landed my immediate thought was to stand as this would prove nothing major was broken or disconnected. The pain and sickness hit me about 10 mins later

[Dean Lofthouse]

I had the same when the mewp went over.

 

Loads of time to think, your body floods with, all I can describe it as is , pain killer and it is the clearest thoughts I had had ever.

 

In split seconds you can analize whats going on and different senarios of how it will end up, weird weird feeling.

 

Afterwards you are on a high for a few minutes, I'd like to repeat the feeling but not the experience

[Graham]

The falling is totally surreal. It's so hard to describe the calmness and clear thinking.

 

I've often wondered what it would be like if the fall lasted for minutes rather than seconds.

[Robert_S]

that sounds very strange,i think he has been having an affair with one of his co workers wifes and his mate forgot to clip him in then went "oh your hand are too slippy i cant hold you, bye,i mean oh no!!"

[jojam]

I fell out of a lime from ten feet.It was not a surreal experience because i'd no time to think about anything until i was rolling about the ground in agony thinking i can't have broken anything major coz i can still feel my feet.It was only when i stood up and turned round that i thought if i'd landed about three foot further back i'd have broken my neck on the wall under the tree!

[Ooops..]

am i missing something here?

 

how does it get from realising your not clipped in properly to hanging from the outside of the rig?

[Khriss]

I had the same when the mewp went over.

 

Loads of time to think, your body floods with, all I can describe it as is , pain killer and it is the clearest thoughts I had had ever.

 

In split seconds you can analize whats going on and different senarios of how it will end up, weird weird feeling.

 

Afterwards you are on a high for a few minutes, I'd like to repeat the feeling but not the experience

 

LOL at 'analise' -yes I probly woud be 'analising '

.....in smelly great loads......

 

K

[Nick Waring]

am i missing something here?

 

how does it get from realising your not clipped in properly to hanging from the outside of the rig?

 

my thoughts aswell, seems very strange.