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Dead skydiver found on front lawn of Florida home: "The worst I've seen"

www.cbsnews.com Dead skydiver found on front lawn of Florida home: "The worst I've seen"

A neighbor's surveillance video captured an SUV window's reflection, showing the skydiver descending before making a hard landing.

Detectives are investigating after a skydiver was found dead in the front yard of a residence near an airpark in Florida, authorities said Saturday.

A man outfitted in parachute attire and gear was located just before 12:30 p.m. on the lawn of a home in Titusville, about 50 miles east of Orlando, police said in a statement. The Titusville Fire Department responded and said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police on Monday identified the victim as 69-year-old Frederick C. Morello, of Ormond Beach, CBS affiliate WKMG reported.

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Dressing up as a skydiver and dying on a lawn would be a brilliant prank to play if you knew Miss Marple was coming to town.

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- You still need the 'bag of bones' look.
  
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The video shows someone from the skydiving center removing the parachute from the scene, but doesn't make it clear if that's before or after the paramedics clear the scene.

A bit strange if somebody came to take the parachute but left the guy in the yard.

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- Gotta hide the evidence that the equipment wasn’t properly maintained, I suppose.
  
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  Exactly
  
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Video here. It cuts before he "lands". He was moving fast even with the chute deployed.

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- Well, the headline definitely makes it sound like the chute wasn't open.
  
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" Police are still not releasing what caused that hard landing."

I'm going to take a guess and say the ground. A damn near 70 year old hit the ground at that speed. Imagine the aftermath. Guts and skin everywhere.

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- The video shows a reflection in the back window of the SUV showing his chute was open when he came down, but he was moving fast and didn’t appear to be flaring (which further slows descent to a manageable landing speed). He might have become incapacitated in the air, or still impacted hard enough to kill him, but it wasn’t a “no chute full speed” type of situation, it seems
  
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  In the reflection it looks like he was turning super low. That's pretty dangerous since your body will swing out horizontal during the turn, and then you can slam into the ground as you swing back.
  
  He shouldn't have been that close to homes in the first place though, I assume they must have really fucked up, and he didn't have a safe spot to land.
  
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  that's a negatory on the dirt dart, say again, we did not have a dirt dart. more like an aarpsplat.
  
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  Yeah I seen that but how many 70 year olds do you know without paper thin skin. If it rains to hard, they bruise.
  
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- Human bodies splatter less than you think, more akin to dropping a sausage on the floor. It bounces, and a piece or two might disconnect, but "guts and skin everywhere" is more a traumatic car accident thing.
  
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  Gravity isn't hard, silly rabbit. No one has died from gravity, it's usually the stop that gets them.
  
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- Im gonna put my money on gravity.
  
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This is why I’d rather skydive than bungee jump. If it goes badly, lights out rather than horrible-life-altering injury.

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- Both of those reasons are why I choose to stay on the ground.
  
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  And definitely not below the ground either
  
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- I came into this world from a broken rubber, I certainly ain’t leaving it because of one! /boomerhumor
  
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- You sure about that
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUq-KTkyw7o
  
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Holy shit

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- fucking"hard landing" indeed...
  
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I can't believe I've never seen this as a headline before. Has it mostly been suppressed in the past? The article itself acknowledged that EMTs have certainly seen skydiver deaths.

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- I mean, there's a whole song about this by The Weather Girls. This has clearly been a problem since the 1980's.
  
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  youuuuuu motherfucker
  
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- If you've seen one you've seen them all
  
  Well, except for this one, apparently
  
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  Based on what?
  
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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

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How many dead skydivers do you have to see to rank them?

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- "WHAT'S UP GAMERS. Today, I'm gonna be doing another tier list and this time it's gonna be... yep! You guessed it! Skydiving deaths!"
  
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Don’t they find the cocaine bear guy dead in a driveway from skydiving?

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D.B. Cooper sounding shit.

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What's a nearly 70 year old dude doing skydiving?

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- He found an alternative to criticizing others’ life choices on the internet.
  
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- Living his life to the fullest, why not skydive if you’re physically/mentally well at 70? Not like you have a lot left to live for that you need to be risk-averse
  
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  He doesn't seem so physically well now though
  
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- Going out with not a whimper, but a ban.. err splat
  
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  You only leap once
  
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