Thread: Wind on Sunday
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Old 01-29-2008, 04:47 PM
Skyway Scott
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That's a pretty good point.
They are gone now.

BTW, someone almost got hurt REAL bad today at EB. It was on a launch. I didn't see it, but heard he was literally inches from a serious head injury. I guess the rider ended up pinned under the front end of my truck (parked at the edge of the road) after being dragged about 75 yards at high speed.
He was hauling ass with his kite looping repeatedly.
I was told his head was one inch from colliding with the underside of my truck.
Several people told me the exact same story and I guess at least ten people saw it, so it's not exaggeration.

I guess another launch went bad and the guy got dragged to the other side across the road, too.

Very glad no one was seriously hurt. I then heard about 5 other stories of recent kitemares over the last month or so.
Every single one was associated with a launch.
Not bringing it up to be negative. Just bringing it up to reinforce that launching (imo) is the most dangerous thing we do and unfortunately, most people are pretty lax during a launch.
Stuff can go wrong, that much is certain.
If it does during a launch, it's usually pretty brutal cuz the kite is somewhat out of control for one reason or another.

Just play it safe on the launches.
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