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A bridge too far!!!

One sunny afternoon in West Glasgow , in a flat occupied with respectable Australians, there was an ominous ring too their phone. When answered, one of them knew off the implications that this phone call would mean too the group! Oh bollocks! Darcys coming to stay for a few days and he's bringing along his base jumping parachute!!!So began a search of central Scotland for suitable sites to throw HIS body off.His base jumping highness felt he had found the right spot where he could perform this bizarre ritual of plummeting towards mother earth, so without further ado we left the scene of the impending crime only to return the following morning at 6.00am. The sunrise was spectacular with clear crisp frosty air and a red dappled water below. With nothing more than ONE parachute strapped too his back, which hopefully would open in time to save his mortal soul from being turned into pavement pizza!!, he stepped off the abyss and went straight into adrenaline city. Eight glorious seconds later he had landed as planned in the soft forgiving sands on the banks of the river Clyde.

Pumped up and ready to rock & rollGround crew ready( shovel hidden out of view!)

The dark figure upon the bridge of death!And he's off, and by the Gods! it looks like its working!!

Yes yes he's alive and kicking, hide the shovel!Whoopee, the ground crew are elated, but lets get out of here!!

Well i'll leave you with some pictures off that sunrise.if only i got up early more often! i could get into this photography


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A tall order!!!

If you dont like the lifts jump!
After the excitement of the bridge what was going through our guru's mind!! We scoured Glasgow for tall accessible buildings that's what!!!!. Looking extremely suspicious we found some of the right calibre + 30 stories!, which would mean they were above 300 ft. Late at night, around 11pm ,the ground party approached a resident, a young lad, who was about to enter through the security door. "Excuse us but could you let us in so my mate can jump of the roof" with a grunt and a shrug of his shoulders we were in! On the 30th floor a stair led up to the roof. Super bollocks! there was a padlock to the door leading onto the roof, we would have to come back with a crowbar!. When we got home our entrepid jumper was all pumped up, he needed to jump!! so it was decided to revisit the bridge. At 1.30am under the Northern lights ( honest the sky was green,blue and red ) he did jump number two. Unfortunately his tying of to the hand rail was not as good as his first attempt with the result that his pilot chute had to do all the work! What this meant was that he had to go into freefall for a few seconds to get up enough speed to rip the parachute off his back! As the bridge height was about 160ft! by the time his chute opened he had a 3 second canopy ride, just enough time to spank-in to the shore line narrowly missing a shopping trolley!!!. Our hero had eyeballs like saucers!!! and mud up to his tender bits!!! The next day saw a renewed plan and attempt at the infamous Red Road flats. We would buy bolt cutters and a spare padlock to replace the one we would break ( were not unthinking, irresponsible people you know! ) The boys broke through at 1.30pm in the afternoon and the cameras were ready! One ,two, three and he jumped. There was an almighty crack as the noise of his parachute echoed around the housing scheme and heads turned to the sky, "what was that, a bird, a plane , no just some daft ejit jumping aff the roof was the reply! He landed and moments later was whisked away in the getaway car. The rendezvous was the local pub ( no windows!! ) where our gang met and drank beer to celebrate ( again there was no need for the shovels )So yet again he cheated death and walked away, watch this space for more adventures of Darcy the Daring!!!!!

The tools Can you make him out at the 23rd floor!Ah a safe landing!Run its a bust!

The above pictures were taken with my digital camera from the ground, but the following pictures are from our roving photo journalist from the roof, a.k.a Callum the Cool!!. They were taken with a normal camera and then scanned, so the quality isn't quite as good, but thats life on the edge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no pilot chute in tow!!.....Thank goodness it opened or the red car was getting a sunroof!Time for a quick exit!!!


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Cliff Richard

Who needs a rope?
Here he goes again! Just when you thought it was safe to go walking in the countryside and admire the views he throws himself off a cliff! At least there was no cars to flatten on the way down!!Watch this space for more daring deeds!!!


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