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Thanks for the link, although I believe we're now in a place where "relative impressiveness" is all-but-meaningless. These are all impressive stories, and tryin
by a4isms 4y ago
Thanks for the link, although I believe we're now in a place where "relative impressiveness" is all-but-meaningless. These are all impressive stories, and trying to figure out which one is more impressive is a little like sitting in a barbershop trying to figure out who is the greatest boxer that ever lived.
My contribution to impressive feats of survival bailing out of an airplane is this story of a WWII ball turret gunner who survived a fall from his bomber without a parachute:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/03/04/during-ww2-an-american-pilot-fell-20000-feet-without-a-parachute-before-smashing-through-the-glass-roof-of-a-train-station-he-survived-and-lived-to-82/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/03/04/during-ww2-an-amer...
I think there are other such WWII stories, I seem to recall someone who fell into an evergreen forest in winter and credited the snow-laden trees for his survival.
- aliqot 4y agoDicky Ecklund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicky_Eklund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicky_Eklund
- a4isms 4y ago"Any time we talking boxers, East Coast Elites gotta bring up Dicky Eklund. Dicky Eklund, Dicky Eklund, Dicky Eklund, that's all you hear. Stop with your Dicky Eklund, everybody know it be George Chuvalo!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Chuvalo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Chuvalo
- jrumbut 4y agoWhere is the quote from? Sounds familiar.
- genghisjahn 4y agohttps://youtu.be/gv7mO41bbPg?t=74 https://youtu.be/gv7mO41bbPg?t=74
- a4isms 4y agoGood call-out! That was the scene I had in mind when I mentioned sitting in a barbershop arguing about the greatest boxer who ever lived, and while I didn't want to repeat that speech word-for-word, I was most definitely thinking of the Joe Frazier Rocky Marciano line you picked out. Finally, for all three people in the world who care, I picked George Chuvalo as my reply specifically because he is famous for fighting Ali twice and staying on his feet both times.
- jrumbut 4y agoWow you two really understand each other! I was thinking "what movie did I miss where they discussed Dicky Eklund and George Chuvalo?" I was wondering if it was from that old Showtime documentary about Dicky's darker times.
- aliqot 4y agoIt's heart warming that people know Dicky in this context, it's tough to see him go from where he was to the person they saw during his appearance on HBO's "High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell" https://deadspin.com/the-real-dicky-eklund-in-hbos-high-on-crack-street-and-5773665 https://deadspin.com/the-real-dicky-eklund-in-hbos-high-on-c...
- jrumbut 4y agoMy memory of him is always going to be Mickey Ward's corner, I'm not old enough to remember his own career but he had some legendary moments as a second.
- chasd00 4y agodidn't Eddie Murphy play all of those roles at the same time? well i mean it was edited to look like he played them all at the same time.
- a4isms 4y ago
- LorenPechtel 4y agoI think you have the same story twice. The ball gunner went into an evergreen forest in the winter.
- a4isms 4y agoThe story I was thinking of is of Nicholas Alkemade, linked elsewhere in this discussion. He was a Lancaster tail gunner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade The story I linked to above is of Alan Magee, a B-17 ball turret gunner who fell through the glass roof of the Saint Nazare train station. They’re not the same story, but boy are they similar!
- sixothree 4y agoJuliane Koepcke also credits the Peruvian forest trees as one of the reasons she survived her fall from an airplane.