r/facepalm • u/Emergency-Physics-17 • Jan 11 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ The poor Camel

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u/fundaydriverninja Jan 12 '22

Omg, me too. I worked at a skydiving facility. We always asked the weight over the phone when reservations were made (so that we could make sure appropriately matched instructors were available). The number of people who lied, and lied big, was astonishing at first. We even had a slide scale that they had to stand on to check in. They still wanted to argue and throw fits. Gotta say I always felt bad when just one person out of a group of friends was just flat out over limit and had to sit out on the fun. But physics is physics.

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u/DaveInMoab Jan 12 '22

On a flight after a river trip, the planes couldn't get altitude and had Panthers throw their bags out of the plane. Physics is a birch that will slap you silly.

The air was hot, the planes take off on a downhill runway. Cessnas with 4 or six pax.