And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Headfirst approach would probably have solved that problem. Putting the weightier end at the end of the slingshot exacerbated acceleration over the wall.
But, as in this case, comedy trumps engineering and physics.
Welcome to 8 figure settlement.
ReplyDeleteThat’s what I was thinking…
DeleteThat looks like a home made contraption. Maybe install one of them bounce houses off the side.
ReplyDeleteHere's the dry version:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfwSu7RM-K4
I wonder how long it'll be before big government will deem it unsafe and make him take it down.
That looks like a water slide I slid on in Costa Rica.
ReplyDeleteAnother lesson in physics learned the hard way.
ReplyDeleteAn object in motion tends to say in motion.
ReplyDeleteHeadfirst approach would probably have solved that problem.
ReplyDeletePutting the weightier end at the end of the slingshot exacerbated acceleration over the wall.
But, as in this case, comedy trumps engineering and physics.
Looks like it is on a hillside, so he likely had a long tumble before he came to a stop.
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