Poor skydivers. I guess that if you are the type to skydive anyway you are a risk taker. As far as the improper maintenance on the planes. If I was going to go up in a plane to jump out of it, the last thing that I would think of is something happening to the plane. After all you have a parachute on.

Poor robbers. I would rather be shot almost anywhere than in the butt. You know the bullet has to exit somewhere. I guess the robbers were almost as daring as the skydivers. NOT THINKING. I’m no robber, I think I would have to know what and who I was robbing before I did it. I guess they deserved what they go for being stupid. Some things done on an impulse are the worst things you can do.

Poor Metro. Don’t have much to say about that. Every jobs seems to go way over budget. Maybe in the future they will just add a few million to the cost before they even conceder doing the job. That way if it stays within the budget, they will have a little money to try skydiving.

Gee I wonder if the one suffering from the gunshot wounds to his butt will keep mum about the one who got away? It is kinda hard to look and act all macho when your story ends with you having to tell people you got shot in the backside! He better be able to learn to laugh at himself.

The Metro on the other hand is no laughing matter. It amazes me that something that starts out on such a positive note ends in this kind of mess. There was never a need for the Metro to go into Shrewsbury in the first place. I have family and friends who live in the area that are seeing what “good” has come from this. Look at the Galleria. It is getting too dangerous for the locals to even shop there anymore. Look at the Crestwood Mall, it has gone the way of Jamestown and Northwest Plaza. Bad planning, unnecessary spending and just an all around dumb idea.

I have nothing good to say about skydiving. I have a healthy fear of heights. My advice would be don’t and just say you did.

What a surprise that our inept Auditor would speak about something that is already common knowledge. This “rap” she gave means absolutely nothing and only gets in her name in the paper. Most people don’t even realize that she is powerless to audit Metro unless Metro gives her permission to. She can’t do anything against them either, but would rather waste her tax-paid-for time on a well publicized story already known to all instead of doing something important. Nice job Susan…

Congress is worrying about sky-divers? why not worry about bath tubs. More people die in bath tubs than from parachuting out of airplanes.

More cheer leaders are killed or injured on their way to their cheer leading site, and while cheer leading than die from parachuting. Why not ban cheer leading?

How nutty can congress become? Stay tuned and see what they do next that’s silly.

Did you even read the heading on that one, johnh? The NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION & SAFETY BOARD is concerened about airplanes that people jump out of. That’s their job. No where does it state that Congress is even involved let alone considering banning sky diving.