June 22, 2003
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How to Jump from a Building into a Dumpster
How to Jump
1. Jump straight down. If you leap off and away from the building at an angle, your trajectory will make you miss the Dumpster. Resist your natural tendency to push off.
2. Tuck your head and bring your legs around. To do this during the fall, execute a three-quarter revolution—basically, a not-quite-full somersault. This is the only method that will allow a proper landing, with your back facing down.
3. Aim for the center of the Dumpster.
4. Land flat on your back so that when your body folds, your feet and hands meet. When your body hits any surface from a significant height, the body folds into a V. This means landing on your stomach can result in a broken back.
Be Aware
* If the building has fire escapes or other protrusions, your leap will have to be far enough out so you miss them on your way down. The landing target needs to be far enough from the building for you to hit it.
* The Dumpster may be filled with bricks or other unfriendly materials. It is entirely possible to survive a high fall (five stories or more) into a Dumpster, provided it is filled with the right type of trash (cardboard boxes are best) and you land correctly.
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9yo girl marries dog
From correspondents in New Delhi
June 18, 2003
A NINE-year-old girl was married off to a dog in the presence of more than 100 people in eastern India under a tribal custom to protect the child from evil, a report said today.
Karnamoni Hasda wedded the street dog last week in West Bengal state’s Hooghly district in a common practice among the Santhal tribe, the Press Trust of India news agency said, quoting local officials.
According to Santhal belief, if a child’s first tooth appears on the upper gum he or she is in grave danger that can only be warded off by a marriage with man’s best friend. The child can remarry a human after growing up.
The report said Karnamoni’s canine marriage did not take place immediately after her first tooth appeared because her father’s financial problems did not allow for a wedding at the time.
Agence France-Presse
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Comments (10)
I’ve heard there was a horse at Coney Island that could dive. I’m not sure if it was into dumpsters, though. Sounds like they’d lose a lot of horses that way.
i loved the illustrations. i only wish i knew the correct procedure earlier…
Hmmmm… How to jump in a dumpster… Hope I never have to use that one.
And the girl may be lucky… I like dogs more than most people! LOL
Thanks for the insturiction.Next time i go dumpster diving i will keep that in mind.It is nice to see somebody on xanga providing a public service such as this.You should be proud you might have saved someones life
Hey, I’ve been married to my dogs for 3 years. I should be in that paper.
::TREE::
I sure hope I remember the correct procedure if ever someone pushes me off a building…and I sure hope there’s a proper dumpster (filled with boxes, not bricks) waiting below. Oh, and I hope I’m not in my underwear when it happens, like the guy in the illustration. Being pushed into a dumpster is ONE thing, but THAT would be humiliating…
I WROTE those procedures! Theivin’ fiends!
I wish I could marry my dog. I don’t know, I just go for the crotch-licking, car-chasing, leg-humping types. To each his own.
Marrying the dog??
Okay….
If I marry, to a dog, then I would die of my lousy sneezing nose. ACHOO
Dang I have been doing it wrong all these years, but so far landed head first has worked fairly well, my head is now flat but nothing else up there to damage
J
I’m allergic to dogs. That’s unfortunate!