Detectives are investigating after a skydiver was found dead in the front yard of a residence near an airpark in Florida, authorities said Saturday.
A man outfitted in parachute attire and gear was located just before 12:30 p.m. on the lawn of a home in Titusville, about 50 miles east of Orlando, police said in a statement. The Titusville Fire Department responded and said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police on Monday identified the victim as 69-year-old Frederick C. Morello, of Ormond Beach, CBS affiliate WKMG reported.
How many dead skydivers do you have to see to rank them?
“WHAT’S UP GAMERS. Today, I’m gonna be doing another tier list and this time it’s gonna be… yep! You guessed it! Skydiving deaths!”
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Hit that Bell! With your left hand if you’ve never personally seen a splashed down skydiiiveeer! Let’s go
And all on that guys lawn, too! Inventor of the nylon super magnet?
Dressing up as a skydiver and dying on a lawn would be a brilliant prank to play if you knew Miss Marple was coming to town.
You still need the ‘bag of bones’ look.
The video shows someone from the skydiving center removing the parachute from the scene, but doesn’t make it clear if that’s before or after the paramedics clear the scene.
A bit strange if somebody came to take the parachute but left the guy in the yard.
Gotta hide the evidence that the equipment wasn’t properly maintained, I suppose.
Exactly
Video here. It cuts before he “lands”. He was moving fast even with the chute deployed.
Well, the headline definitely makes it sound like the chute wasn’t open.
" Police are still not releasing what caused that hard landing."
I’m going to take a guess and say the ground. A damn near 70 year old hit the ground at that speed. Imagine the aftermath. Guts and skin everywhere.
Human bodies splatter less than you think, more akin to dropping a sausage on the floor. It bounces, and a piece or two might disconnect, but “guts and skin everywhere” is more a traumatic car accident thing.
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Gravity isn’t hard, silly rabbit. No one has died from gravity, it’s usually the stop that gets them.
Lots of ground everywhere i go and none of it has killed anyone.
The key is distancing yourself from the ground (then meeting up with it very quickly).
Like this?
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Holy shit
fucking"hard landing" indeed…
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this as a headline before. Has it mostly been suppressed in the past? The article itself acknowledged that EMTs have certainly seen skydiver deaths.
If you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all
Well, except for this one, apparently
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If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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Don’t they find the cocaine bear guy dead in a driveway from skydiving?
What’s a nearly 70 year old dude doing skydiving?
He found an alternative to criticizing others’ life choices on the internet.
Living his life to the fullest, why not skydive if you’re physically/mentally well at 70? Not like you have a lot left to live for that you need to be risk-averse
He doesn’t seem so physically well now though
We all die, you have the choice of it being potentially sudden during an activity or prolonged on a hospital death bed
Going out with not a whimper, but a ban… err splat
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You only leap once