Wedge-Tailed Eagle
“Why me?”, She Reports Thinking
Britain’s top woman paraglider told yesterday how she cheated death after two huge eagles attacked her, sending her into freefall, 8,200ft (2,500m) above the Australian Outback.
Nicky Moss, 38. said she thought “Why me?” when the eagles came screeching out of the sky and began shredding the fabric wing of her paraglider over the remote northern country of New South Wales earlier this week.
She spun out of control and into a terrifying 1,600ft freefall when one of the birds became entangled in the lines suspending her beneath the glider, collapsing the wing and sending her diving toward earth.
Wedge-tailed eagles are among the world’s largest raptors and are Australia’s biggest bird of prey. They are known to swoop upon sheep and their wings may span more than 8ft.
“I screamed at the eagles. I just had to carry on flying. I got out of the skies as quickly as I could by doing some manoeuvres and at about 100 metres from the ground the eagles left me alone. I landed safely in a paddock.”
So where’s the video? There’s always supposed to be video nowadays.
Nicky Moss
(Click on this pic for a cool larger pic of her.)
So, it’s the condoms they were after? I guess some do-gooder nitwits conned those poor eagles into thinking “safe sex”.
Almost killed that poor condom girl for a lousy pack of lambies.
Man oh man.
Too bad she didn’t have one of those helmet cams skydivers sometimes use. I bet the video would have been awesome.
Speaking of awesome, that’s a helluva statue she posed by in the linked picture. (‘Fess up – anybody think I was gonna make a snide remark about her rack?)
When asked for comment the eagles replied
“We’re still flying and she isn’t”
Finally nature is fighting the backpackers.
Good for the eagles. Now if we can only find a natural predator for the SUV, people who have than two children, meat eaters and individuals who are more than 10 lbs. over their proper weight, we might be able to quell global warming.
After that, we can work on a natural predator for insufferable facist know-it-alls.
I love nature.
Man. Ive seen 4 completely dirffrent versions of this story.. one quoting she was on a 2500′ training flight? hmmm I see this gets converted to metres in this one. Pretty damn impossible to go into a “freefall” in a tangled paraglider (never happened to me in 17years of flying them)
Nice PR for the condom firm but!
“…we might be able to quell global warming…”
We could also “quell” global warming if the Left just stops exhaling CO2.
Besides, what does the global warming fraud and SUVs have to do with the topic at hand? Does every discussion have to revolve around some pathetic Liberal cause or Evil Right Wing Boogeyman?
Palomar Jack Attacked by Eagles! Yaaaaaay! And his monster-truck SUV run off the road, into a molten volcano, saving us all from one more redneck fuel chewer.