Time To Let It Go
Doesn’t Michel Fournier realize every possible sign is being sent to him to get him to stop his insane jump? The French skydiver has a crazy dream. He wants to fly high enough in the sky, to then free-fall 40-thousand metres back to earth. For the second day in a row there was a glitch preventing the dive though. Yesterday, Fournier’s plans were scrapped due to high winds. Today, he lost his balloon. That’s right, everyone was ready for the take-off, and then the unthinkable happened - the balloon floated away….without Fournier! One person said it looked like a “giant silver squid.” I have a question. Why exactly would someone want to free-fall 40-thousand metres? That’s a very long way. To put it into perspective, free-falling 40-thousand metres is the equivalent of flying about five times higher than the average passenger jet, or stacking 186 Petro-Canada buildings on top of each other. Again, why? If Mr. Fournier wants to try again, it’s going to take a long time. The launch manager says he’s out of the $500,000.00 balloons, so it could be months, even years before another attempt. By the way, this is the fourth time Fournier has failed. He tried the same stunt in 2002 and 2003. I personally think he should sit back and think about what he’s trying to do and maybe thank his lucky stars that his attempts have failed.