Yes, a year ago. I can’t remember to eat dinner most nights, but this random moment somehow sticks in my brain like a thumbtack. I was reading an article about a crazy Frenchman, named Michel Fournier, who was planning on taking a balloon 25 miles up into space so that he could jump out and set some kind of record. It was an interesting article, but the user comments were twice as entertaining. For fun, I did a search to see if I could find one of them that I remembered. Yup, the digital library of everything ever uttered still works. I don’t know why, but it still makes me chuckle.
The article was called, “Frenchman Plummeting 25 Miles From the Sky Will Break Sound Barrier, World Records.” Published in Gizmodo
This guy’s user comment was:
Based on the information above, here are 10 headlines to accompany his potential death.
10. World record set for longest suicide.
9. Man locks self in capsule, floats into outer space.
8. Man in fire retardant suit catches fire.
7. Unidentified aircraft shot down by military. People continue to live.
6. Sky diver hit by jumbo jet.
5. Parachute proves useless for man rocketing to ground.
4. Death drop, 15 minutes without parachute.
3. Man dies of shitting, heart attack.
2. Man jumps from space, lands on flagpole.
1. Man survives jump, eaten by bear.
People are funny.
You’re wondering what happened to him, aren’t you? Well, as it turns out, he never got off the ground. It would seem that improper attaching of the balloon part of his contraption caused it to float away while he was filling it. Why do the French make fun of us, again?
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