Strangest thing you've seen fall from the sky?

WestRace · 10-04-2019, 07:08 PM

If I saw Ms. Kate Upton fall right into my arms that would be it.

Darth One · 10-04-2019, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by upstatedoc

they dont come down as fast as they went up

Fair enough, but i think i’d rather not stick around to see how fast exactly

Ric in RVA · 10-05-2019, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Darth One

Fair enough, but i think i’d rather not stick around to see how fast exactly

Ask this poor kid....oh you can't. Still haven't caught the POS that fired the round.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brendon...ks-police-say/

MR_X · 10-05-2019, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by WestRace

Haha. I thought of Joe Dirty

RKM · 10-05-2019, 12:09 PM

While I was mowing my lawn

upstatedoc · 10-05-2019, 12:58 PM

Is that you in the Shorty shorts?

vreihen16 · 10-05-2019, 03:42 PM

When I was in first grade, I was at a small airport and was the only witness for a fatal accident when a gyrocopter across the field turned too steeply and fell out of the sky.

One afternoon in my office about 15 years ago, an eagle flew past my window with a cat in its claws...collar and all. Took it up to the roof of the building where it had a nest full of babies, so I imagine it wound up as bird poop on someone's windshield a few days later.

The absolute strangest thing that I have ever seen fall from the sky was a piece of non-ferrous metal, about the size of a fingernail. I was walking across the driveway to my car, and heard something hit a few leaves on a tree near my car, then a "tink" on the windshield, followed by two quieter pings. When I looked to see what it was, the metal was resting on the wiper blade and hot enough to melt the rubber a little bit. Immediately suspecting that it was space debris, I looked overhead and there were no planes in sight. There were also no lawnmowers running in the area. It was extremely thin and very rigid, and thought that it might have been titanium although I never had it tested. I'm assuming that it was a splinter of space junk that broke up on re-entry, because I couldn't find any other obvious source where it could have been from.....

RKM · 10-05-2019, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by upstatedoc

Is that you in the Shorty shorts?

No, that's me behind the camera. It gets to 120F here, everyone wears shorts.

HFW003 · 10-05-2019, 04:22 PM

I went skydiving once

DETRoadster · 10-05-2019, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by RKM

No, that's me behind the camera. It gets to 120F here, everyone wears shorts.

Be glad you arent the dude on the left in the green shorts. 120 degrees with 1/2 your shorts in your ass crack cant be comfy.

F30lolz · 10-05-2019, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by RKM

While I was mowing my lawn

This was like 30 years ago right? Two men wearing daisy dukes cannot be 2019

Rmtt · 10-06-2019, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by DETRoadster

Be glad you arent the dude on the left in the green shorts. 120 degrees with 1/2 your shorts in your ass crack cant be comfy.

Maybe he was the pilot or a passenger who survived.

I know my shorts would've been clinched pretty tight if I were to have been through something like that!

RKM · 10-06-2019, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by F30lolz

This was like 30 years ago right? Two men wearing daisy dukes cannot be 2019

1988, good call.

King Rudi · 10-07-2019, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by F30lolz

This was like 30 years ago right? Two men wearing daisy dukes cannot be 2019

From the shorts and the graininess/color of the picture I was thinking mid-80's. I also had the exact same adidas shirt, same color and all, back then. I hope T.C. from Magnum P.I. survived this crash.

RKM · 10-07-2019, 01:31 PM

Yeah, two guys walked away from it. It was rented, tail rotor went out.

UncleWede · 10-07-2019, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by HFW003

I went skydiving once

I screamed for 12,500 feet myself. ONCE.

Alfisti · 10-08-2019, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by UncleWede

Those He-UGE fuzzy orange spiders are all over my yard. When I walk thru the web, they drop onto the ground, if I am lucky. Now I walk like a zombie sweeping my arms up/down, especially between the trees

This is the most australian thing ever. We have these big fuck off orb weavers that make a web 20 fucking feet wide, run into one at night you're doing full blown kung fu as you freak out.

M5Rick · 10-08-2019, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by UncleWede

There was that time in junior high. Heard the screech of tires and crunch. Then a wheel came bouncing thru the trees, followed shorty by a guy shaking like a leaf who turned partially and pissed into said trees

I've heard of s#it scared so he saved his pants at least.

Terry989 · 10-11-2019, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by UncleWede

Those He-UGE fuzzy orange spiders are all over my yard. When I walk thru the web, they drop onto the ground, if I am lucky. Now I walk like a zombie sweeping my arms up/down, especially between the trees

You must be taking about these European Invaders that I find in my backyard

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Rmtt · 10-11-2019, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Terry989

You must be taking about these European Invaders that I find in my backyard

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Fu@k that.

I am terrified of spiders. I will pick up a poisonous snake with no issues, but show me a spider and I am walking the other way!

It's mental. I was bitten by a Brown Recluse on the ankle that was hiding in an old pair of shoes of mine. It took awhile to get over it.

MADBMWX5MC · 10-11-2019, 07:37 AM

Walking dog around 0400, I saw a meteor shower on a clear night. Beautiful and scary at the same time.

UncleWede · 10-11-2019, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Terry989

You must be taking about these European Invaders that I find in my backyard

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Those don't look "plump" enough to be the ones I see emerge just at sunset to begin weaving.

Right at my waist, just below my belly button, I have these horribly itchy 2 puncture wounds. I think one got brushed down then landed on my pants and bit me

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