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Default OT - Big Brutus Claims a Darwinian Sky-Diver

On Jan 19, 8:38 am, Swingman wrote:
On 1/19/2010 8:34 AM, RonB wrote:

Apparently some area base jumpers have been eying Brutus' 1960 boom.
One gave it a shot this past week.


http://fourstateshomepage.com/conten...xt/?cid=104441


Brutus won.


Another product of pop culture and the American educational system bites
the dust ...

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Unfortunately, we'll probably never know how many successful jumps
were made from "Big Brutus". I'd recommend static-lining off that low
of a height. Tom