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Ivan, I've got an idea....

Pliablemoose

Pliablemoose

Lifer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEep5BrexT0

The money shot's at the end 😱

Russian beachgoers got a shock when they saw a donkey soaring in the blue skies over the balmy beaches on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia last week, police said on Tuesday. Attached to a parachute, the animal screamed in fear as it circled over heads of holidaymakers sunbathing on a beach in the Cossack village of Golubitskaya in the Krasnodar region.
A regional police spokeswoman said the donkey ended up in the skies as a result of an impromptu advertising campaign by several Russian entrepreneurs to attract beachgoers to their private beach.
Instead, they attracted the attention of regional police who learned of the flying donkey earlier this week and launched a probe.
"The donkey screamed and children cried," regional police spokeswoman Larisa Tuchkova told AFP. "No-one had the brains to call police."
Instead, she said, people reached for their cameras and bombarded a local newspaper with phone calls.
"It was put up so high into the sky that the children on the beach cried and asked their parents: "Why did they tie a doggy to a parachute?" the newspaper, Taman, said late last week.
"The donkey landed in an atrocious manner: it was dragged several metres along the water, after which the animal was pulled out half-alive onto the shore."
The incident is stunning even for a country where animal cruelty is widespread and came as a shock to the locals, said Taman newspaper's editor, Elena Iovleva.
"This has never happened before," she told AFP.
The footage of the parachuting donkey was aired on national television Tuesday.
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Wow.😱 That donkey takes off fast!

Seagull crap is bad enough, I really wouldnt want to be under a terrified flying donkey.D:
 
what is the parachute attached to at the front end? i.e. what is pulling the donkey? 😱
 
Anubis said:
a boat? kinda looked like a parasailing harness
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that's what I thought at first, but the boat would have to accelerate ridiculously fast if it started at standstill... unless there's slack in the cords and the guys are just holding the donkey up until the boat yanks it away D:
 
Aflac said:
that's what I thought at first, but the boat would have to accelerate ridiculously fast if it started at standstill... unless there's slack in the cords and the guys are just holding the donkey up until the boat yanks it away D:
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Of course the boat started with slack in the line. You haven't done much water skiing I see.🙂
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
Of course the boat started with slack in the line. You haven't done much water skiing I see.🙂
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none whatsoever 🙂 just making sure... watched the video again and I see it. For some reason I thought the donkey was being pulled between the parachute and the boat D😀:
 
The guy behind the stunt later issued this statement:

"Как Бог мне свидетель, я думал, ослы могут летать!!!"

_^_^_
 
I'm glad the donkey was ok. I'm not sure why they thought it was a good idea to put one in a parachute to start with.
 
ThePresence said:
Happy ending for the donkey.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/05/an-ink-stained-but-happy-ending-for-the-parasailing-donkey/
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LOL, now it can live out the remainder of it's years as a Sun billboard! 😉

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