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onedef92
06-21-2012, 7:26am
Alaska man climbs tree, but gets stuck upside down

Posted: Wed, Jun. 20, 2012, 8:12 PM

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - An Alaska man had to be rescued after he climbed a tree for exercise but got stuck upside down by one leg.

Fairbanks firefighters had to use a ladder truck to reach the 53-year-old man, who was dangling nearly 30 feet off the ground. He was uninjured.

Assistant Fire Chief Ernie Misewicz told The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in an email that the man decided to climb the tree because "it was something he wanted to do."

He said the man had spikes and a belt around his stomach, and that he lost his grip and fell backward. The belt slipped below his waist, flipping him over.

Authorities were alerted by a friend, whom the man called from a cellphone attached to a lanyard around his neck.
DAB
06-21-2012, 7:59am
He should stick to being a CF mod, eating cheese poofs, and fapping.
Yerf Dog
06-21-2012, 8:10am
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/21/article-2162473-13B5F2C4000005DC-841_468x286.jpg
joecaver
06-21-2012, 9:38am
it sounds like either
(A)he had the belt too low
(B)he is top heavy
(C)both

regardless of why he is lucky he had a phone. You can die from hanging upside down.
Bucwheat
06-21-2012, 9:40am
Dufus
Yerf Dog
06-21-2012, 10:14am
regardless of why he is lucky he had a phone. You can die from hanging upside down.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p213/yerfdog65/Junk/bat1.jpg
Rotorhead
06-21-2012, 11:55am
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p213/yerfdog65/Junk/bat1.jpg

:rofl::rofl::rofl:
onedef92
06-21-2012, 12:18pm
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p213/yerfdog65/Junk/bat1.jpg

http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn372/StarGazerLila1019/BatmanSequel/alfred-pennyworth.jpg

"Why bats (and shet)......Master Wayne?"
ft laud mike
06-22-2012, 1:45am
He should stick to being a CF mod, eating cheese poofs, and fapping.

:rofl:
Kerrmudgeon
06-22-2012, 8:56am
I always wondered if you were in shape, if it's possible for you to use your hands and arms and 'climb' up your own leg and up the rope? Hmmmmm....:confused5:
MEC5LADY
06-22-2012, 9:21am
I always wondered if you were in shape, if it's possible for you to use your hands and arms and 'climb' up your own leg and up the rope? Hmmmmm....:confused5:

Possible but takes a lot of upper body and core strength which he obviously doesn't have.
NEVRL8T
06-22-2012, 11:47am
Our deer hunting club had a member who left the club and joined another one. The next deer season after he left, he was hunting out of a climbing stand with a harness. He fell and was suspended upside down and DIED like that. We were told that his blood drained into his head and caused some kind of pressure to kill him.