One
of the television shoots I did involved traveling to the
smallest country in the world. Lesotho
(full of diamonds) is located within the borders of South Africa
(also full of diamonds). Skydivers would flock there every year for what
they call a 'boogie'. Of all the rather insane people who gathered for the
body-hurling event, one chap remains in uppermost part of my memory. He
had two wooden legs.
He exchanged his prosthesis for peg-legs and jumped
but once per year or so I was informed. Later that weekend I understood why..
The screaming ostrich
A
world of thanks
His descent
was
graceful as he floated down towards earth.
But,
when he landed, he literally 'pegged' right into the ground.
Obviously,
the poor chap suffered immensely after such a landing.
He
would spend the rest of the
year recovering from the resultant compression.
I
wish for good people on this planet to have such incredible friends such
as I have.
There can be no beginning and
no end to all I could tell you about what they have meant to me over the
past five years.
I
endeavor to understand and not condemn
people who do peculiar things - I might be described as mite peculiar
myself..
