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January 25th, 2007, 08:55 AM #1
And they say guns kill..
While we talk about guns killing, There are other plaes where they are talking about a situation where they show "people" kill, and they don’t always use guns! Go Belguim!
Some times they take a person's passion, then make it difficult for them to come out alive.
Sabotaging a car comes to mind, food poisoning, Parachutes?
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - Authorities have opened a murder investigation into the death of a skydiver, saying they believe someone tampered with her parachute in an apparent fight over a lover.
Els Van Doren, 37, fell 13,000 feet to her death last November after her parachute and emergency chute failed to open.
A fellow female skydiver was detained for questioning last week and is the "prime suspect" in the investigation, prosecutor Michel Zegers said Wednesday. No charges have been filed.
Investigators believe Van Doren and the suspect, who belonged to the same parachute club, also dated the same man, a Dutch national identified as "Marcel."
News reports say the suspect killed Van Doren in a jealous rage after learning Van Doren had an affair with her boyfriend.
"I believe we can call this a crime of passion," Zegers said.
A court date is set for Feb. 16 in the eastern city of Tongeren to assess the evidence.
Van Doren had jumped from a plane with three others, including the suspect and the Dutch boyfriend. She crashed to her death at 130 mph near Opglabbeek, a small town in central Belgium.
Police have video footage of the fateful jump _ taken by Van Doren herself as she tried desperately to open her parachute.
At her funeral, some 1,000 people heard her sister deliver a bitter eulogy. "You did all you could during that final jump to save yourself," she was quoted as saying in the Belgian press. "But someone did not want you to live."
Police said someone with extensive skydiving expertise had tampered with Van Doren's parachutes.
The main suspect initially escaped attention during a first round of police questioning. She became a suspect in December when she attempted suicide hours before she was to make a second statement to police.
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Just goes to show! There is no other danger like the human danger, Guns don’t kill, people do...
Gives a new meaning to "its not the fall that hurts, its the sudden stop at the end".
BTW, there are a few recorded incidences where a parachute and the backup did not open and the people lived. One happened when a tandem team was coming down; first person found that the parachute would not open. I remember watching it on the news way back when, the person with the non opening parachute tried to slow their fall by bouncing off the other person’s chute. The landing although not with out any pains occurred after the member with the open parachute managed to catch the free fall of the other person between his legs. On landing both his legs where broken, but the free faller was saved.
I remember reading of an other incidence where a person who jumped (was thrown out) from a plane found his chutes would not open, the landing happened on ice, and lived.
Seeing I know many here like to plan things like they where happening, this page might interest you, a list of free fallers who survived. http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html
Interesting fact:
1960 -- Altitude Record and Highest Parachute Jump: Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger jumps from a balloon at 102,800 feet on August 16th and sets a world high altitude parachute jump (where he breaks the sound barrier with his body) and freefall record that still stands today.Skeet is a sport where you are better to hit half of each bird then completely blast one and miss the other completely.
The choice is yours, place your faith in the court system and 12 of your peers, or carried away by 6 friends.
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit. 'Nobody provokes me with impunity'
ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
In this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
Clint Eastwood
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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