SKYDIVER KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS MIDAIR

At the Summerfest Skydiving Festival in Ottawa, skydivers participate in thousands of jumps over a period of 10 days. On Tuesday morning, two men – described as experienced skydivers – jumped from a plane and collided in midair. One of them was knocked unconscious while falling. But he was wearing what’s called an automated activation device inside a parachute pack. The device measures how fast the person is falling and what altitude they’re at. Once it hits a certain threshold, it deploys the reserve parachute. That device activated the unconscious skydiver’s chute and saved his life.
* Great. The perfect chance to die while he’s asleep and he blows it.
* Why did they collide? Is the sky not big enough?
* Here’s a nutty idea: How about after the guy in front of you jumps, you count to 20 before you go out?
* With thousands of jumps in 10 days, you’d think this stuff would happen more often.
* They need one of these devices for if you’re ever stuck in a boring conversation with a co-worker, or a family member during the holidays. When it senses you’re nodding off, it deploys and ejects you from the conversations.