914Driver
914Driver SuperDork
3/15/10 1:34 p.m.

http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2010/03/one-tough-customer.html

DrBoost
DrBoost Dork
3/15/10 1:42 p.m.

Pretty impressive, but I bet she couldn't make a 10 second car for under 2 grand
That's ok, I can't either.

turboswede
turboswede GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
3/15/10 1:51 p.m.

and damned good!

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury SuperDork
3/15/10 2:00 p.m.

holy cow! A badder-ass never existed

914Driver
914Driver SuperDork
3/15/10 2:24 p.m.

There was a girl once that dropped out of the sky and her seat slid down the face of a mountain. She unbuckled and walked away.

Definately an E Ticket ride, but she didn't have to survive in the jungle for two weeks.

Dan

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
3/15/10 3:27 p.m.

She is so bad-ass, she could be mistaken for Chuck Norris' sister. Cool story, thanks for sharing!

shadetree30
shadetree30 New Reader
3/15/10 3:31 p.m.
EastCoastMojo wrote: She is so bad-ass, she could be mistaken for Chuck Norris' sister. Cool story, thanks for sharing!

Except Chuck Norris' sister would have survived the fall AND built a sub-10 second car for under two grand...

spitfirebill
spitfirebill Dork
3/15/10 3:55 p.m.

On a similar note, a Russian flight attendant was in the tail section of an airliner that broke off during a storm. The tail glided (sort of) down to the ground where she survived the landing. Or something like that. It was a long time ago.

Schmidlap
Schmidlap Reader
3/15/10 6:20 p.m.
shadetree30 wrote: Except Chuck Norris' sister would have survived the fall AND built a sub-10 second car for under two grand...

...and since there is no power in the middle of the Amazon, she would have entered it in the Caveman class.

So what's the fair market value of a 3700hp turboprop engine that has just crashed into the Amazon?

GlennS
GlennS Dork
3/15/10 6:40 p.m.

saw a tv documentary on this girls story years ago.

Spinout007
Spinout007 GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
3/15/10 7:30 p.m.

bad ass! they don't make em like they used to, what my iPhone has no signal? oh what will I do?

Jensenman
Jensenman SuperDork
3/15/10 7:47 p.m.

Talk about guts. I have always liked the 'never give up' attitude.

Twin_Cam
Twin_Cam Dork
3/15/10 8:48 p.m.

I'm feeling pretty silly about complaining how my day work sucked now. She walked through a jungle for 11 days with a concussion. Wild.

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado Dork
3/15/10 9:19 p.m.

The Spanish on the panel on the wreck site pic says, "Emergency Exit".

I like tough girls..

spitfirebill, I remembered that story too, so I looked it up.

http://www.damninteresting.com/vesnas-fall

Wasn't a storm. It was a bomb.

gamby
gamby SuperDork
3/15/10 11:25 p.m.

gangsta

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