Helmets are safety devices. In case you hit your head, right?
Seatbelts are safety devices. In case you crash your vehicle.
But parachutes… those are safety devices up until the point they become the reason you’re up in the plane. I mean, if you’re an air force test pilot- your parachute is a safety device. But if you’re a skydiver, isn’t it your vehicle? It’s your tool, your equipment… it’s your ride.
Parachutes are interesting.
“para-“, from the Italian for “defense, protection, that which protects from.” “-chute”, from the French for “a fall, such as a fall of water.” Therefore, a “parachute” is that which protects you from waterfalls. Quick, go duct tape yourself to the water tower you’re base jumping from, and it will parachute you to safety!
A mile of dental floss? Is she buying from Frank Zappa’s farm? Gonna need a Pygmy pony then. Of course they’re all to young to know about The Mothers of Invention.
WHY?
because they don’t want to have dead or injure people for a CERTAIN lawyer jumping into the occasion?