From the Darwin Awards:
Monsieur Franz Reichelt with his early parachute - an outstanding example of the way in which early aviators were as spectacular in their failures as in their successes. Reichelt was an Austrian tailor who sought to combine his interests by creating a garment to serve as both an overcoat and a parachute. In 1911 he decided to test his invention. Having told the authorities that he wanted to make a "dummy" drop, at the last moment he strapped himself in, and with sublime confidence stepped from a platform of the Eiffel Tower, and fell to his death.
Link | There's even a YouTube clip [warning: read the last sentence of the quote above] - via WFMU's Beware of the Blog
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What a crap death, why couldn't he have used an equal weight, before his heart attack, he must've felt so crap.
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Says the person who misspelled "sentences".
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is there any other link to see that you tube clip.
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you guys need to learn how to spell.... maybe take an english class....learn to make proper sentances...
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poor fellow .why he started from Eiffel Tower?if he jump from some where else may be he can survive
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