Sponsored parachute jump for the people in new orleans

[Dukat]

Hey all

Me, my dad, my uncle and 8-9 other people are going to be doing a sponsered parachute jump, with the money raised going towards the people who have lost everything as a result of the hurricane in new orleans.

This has all come about mainly because my dad works for a company who have thier Hq in america, when he has gone on business trips out there he's come to know a fair few people from the region, as a result he really wanted to do somthing to help them.

The jump will be a tandem jump and will take place at PeterLee Skydiving academy on the 25th of september.

If anyone here would be interested in sponsering me to do this jump, please send me a PM or email to the address in my profile.

Hopefully we can make a difference for a few people out there.

Cheers

A few links for anyone who is interested in the jump side of things:
http://members.aol.com/skydiveamy/
http://www.lineofflight.co.uk/

 

[Hawkwind]

If you take enough Excal WL owners with you and cut the shutes I'll pay £5 for each one (j/k or is it?).




Seriously, sent you pm over MSN regarding sponsership.

 

[Ezteq]

Good luck with that dukat really hope it all goes well, and dont forget to post some pics of your leap on here.

 

[Hansmoleman]

as long as you dont pee yourself on the descent otherwise g'luck ducky

 

[Steffan-]

Tbh, i don't get this thing with a sponsored parachute jump... Why don't you just send the people the money, why do you have to do a parachute jump? Enlighten me please

 

[Job]

Doh, though it was going to be a joke

 

[Dukat]

Tbh, i don't get this thing with a sponsored parachute jump... Why don't you just send the people the money, why do you have to do a parachute jump? Enlighten me please

I believe the idea stems from things like sponsored walks etc, with the meaning being that you do the walk to earn the cash for the cause that you are trying to help.

Having to actually earn the money in the first place for your chosen cause by doing the walk (or in this case the jump) puts a visible kinda tag on it in a way. Its a sort of way for you to show how much you want to help, for example, me saying I'll jump out of an plane if you give money to help the people in new orleans

 

[Tinu]

Nice tought. Altough kinda weird since some ppl pay to jump outta airplanes.
300euro for 2 of my friends I think it cost.

 

[ilaya]

tbh.. u should do it for the tsunami victims of boxing day last year and not new orleans area. yeah.. controversial but gonna say it anyways yeah.

nothing coulda been done about the tsunami.. they need the help. new orleans was built on a swamp and where basically asking for trouble, and the government response was a disgrace. Us government shoulda had plans in place but if they did.. they didnt work. why the hell should anyone offer money to them.. and even countries like sri lanka who where hit by the tsunami, when they wont even agree to the kyoto agreement, and continue to stick their head in the sand thinking global warming has nothing to do with them?

yes its a very very sad thing that so many peeps lost their lives in the hurricane. but i really do wonder.. are the americans gonna learn summit from this? they cant keep on ignoring climate change and then ask for help.. (bush aint gonna help them)

im not trying to ridicule your attempts to help those that need help.. all im saying is.. there's peeps in more need.. AND your help really shouldnt have been needed in first place. Bush is incompetent.. and its really showing now. america is incomptetent..and thats gonna show in our childrens lifetimes.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Ilaya, i think people should think about the japane/china victims sine they've had helluva lot more tsunamihurricanaramas in there.

It's all about what YOU care about.

Albeit, i just want to help japan build big hunky gun tooting robots to take over the world...

 

[Dukat]

tbh.. u should do it for the tsunami victims of boxing day last year and not new orleans area. yeah.. controversial but gonna say it anyways yeah.

nothing coulda been done about the tsunami.. they need the help. new orleans was built on a swamp and where basically asking for trouble, and the government response was a disgrace. Us government shoulda had plans in place but if they did.. they didnt work. why the hell should anyone offer money to them.. and even countries like sri lanka who where hit by the tsunami, when they wont even agree to the kyoto agreement, and continue to stick their head in the sand thinking global warming has nothing to do with them?

yes its a very very sad thing that so many peeps lost their lives in the hurricane. but i really do wonder.. are the americans gonna learn summit from this? they cant keep on ignoring climate change and then ask for help.. (bush aint gonna help them)

im not trying to ridicule your attempts to help those that need help.. all im saying is.. there's peeps in more need.. AND your help really shouldnt have been needed in first place. Bush is incompetent.. and its really showing now. america is incomptetent..and thats gonna show in our childrens lifetimes.

It's all about what YOU care about.

What tohtori said, I did say in my originaly post that the thing is mainly being orginised for the people in new orleans because my dad worked with people from that area and didnt feel comfortable watching it on the news and not doing anything.

Aye the tsunami victims maybe as deserving if not slightly more so, and by doing this I am most certainly NOT saying that I agree with Bush or his administration in anyway at all. However if the donations from this jump help only a few people who have lost thier homes, it will have been worth it (imo).

 

[Deepfat]

The US Govt ain't gonna bother to do much since most of the residents in the area are poor and black, and, therefore only really seen as useful to their country to die in wars. Sad but true

 

[Ezteq]

i dont mean to be rude but i totally disagree with that one,

i hate it when you get people playing the race card in something like this. the fact is the people there were told there was a force 5 hurricane coming and they were told to get out and go to the shelters (ok so the hurricaine was worse than expected and the shelters wernt much use but if everyone was all in the same place they'd be easier to get to) or those that could afford it could just leave town and stay in a hotel or with family.

if you've been watching the news the people that are still in new orleans trapped in the danger areas are both black and white, they're the people with no familys to go to, or the people that cant afford a hotel, too sick to leave the house, or they were just plain stubbern and couldnt face the thought of looters raiding their homes.

maybe the majority of the people who were/are still left there were left because they are poor but being poor isnt just a black thing you get white people who are just as poor.

from what i saw the rescue efforts were pretty feeble but then the hurricane was a hell of a lot worse than expected, they get hurricanes and tornados etc very frequantly in america so they do know how to deal with them, theyve just never had one this big before and tbh lets face it the area flooded was gigantic it takes a hell of a lot of planning to make sure you can rescue people and ensure the safety of the rescuers at the same time when you've got a whole city flooded, gas pipes exploading and to top that you got arseholes out with guns taking pot shots at the people who are trying to help, so tbh in the face of all that i think they didnt do a bad job with what they had and yes in hind sight it was poorly planned but they obviously didnt know that the whole city was going to flood and its so easy to criticise when your not envolved or looking back after the event has happened.

So no its not good but it could have been worse and saying that its because theres poor black people there is the reason they didnt move faster is disgraceful and tbh jessy jackson should get out there on a boat or start raising funds and start trying to help rather than sitting there stiring things up and trying to make people who are upset and confused enough turn in to an angry mob its completely irrisponsible, ok throw accusations about after but not during, the last thing they need now is a race riot bubbling up in the middle of one of those crowded homeless shelters.


very sorry to thread jack and i'm not aiming this rant at anyone in FH its just my opionion that in a crisis everyone should pull together not try and gain political one up manship.

 

[Deepfat]

If Jesse Jackson could raise funds he'd be President already....

He does have apoint so do you so let's leave it that....

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

If you take enough Excal WL owners with you and cut the shutes I'll pay £5 for each one (j/k or is it?).




Seriously, sent you pm over MSN regarding sponsership.

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