Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 30, 2013
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In 1979, Elvita Adams survived a jump from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building when she was blown back onto a ledge on the 85th! Whoosshhh In November 2012, basketball player Jack Taylor of Grinnell College scored 138 points in a single game! The Hertfordshire Hermit Wealthy English landowner James Lucas (1813-1874) barricaded himself in his kitchen for the last 25 years of his life!
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
Well done, Jack. Let’s see you do that in the NBA… if you get drafted.
Vermont Premium Member over 11 years ago
Were there only five players on the whole team? He and his coach are both morons for allowing him to run up the score like that.
shel4 over 11 years ago
Well, did she jump again, or did she figure that she was now too low?
belldee90 over 11 years ago
What is is about great amounts of money that makes some people go completely cuckoo? (Think this guy, think Howard Hughes, think Hugette Clark, think any wealthy crazy cat ladies, like that.)
jkhandy over 11 years ago
If people put half their interest in something actually worth while, instead of so called sports, what a great place this would be. Amazing how so many men waste their time with sports. They can quote team and player stats all day long, but haven’t a clue as to how to communicate anything else. Pity.
tuslog64 over 11 years ago
I fell off a 40 ft. ladder once.(Fortunately, I was only on the second rung!)
boldyuma over 11 years ago
Can you imagine what the guy inside his office on the 85th floor said when Elvita suddenly appeared out of no-where outside his window…“Hey..Window washer..ya missed a spot!”..
Marvin3 over 11 years ago
Now that was a blow job if there ever was one. The wind! The wind!
Vermont Premium Member over 11 years ago
Sporting tradition has always made allowances so the vanquished can save face. Youth leagues have a “slaughter rule” to halt lopsided games. Football quarterbacks with a big lead hand off the ball rather than passing it. Basketball teams run down the clock instead of running up the score. Coaches pull the starters and send in the bench warmers. Very little mitigation of that sort happened last November at Grinnell. And after the game he claimed God had his fingerprints on the ball. I mean, REALLY!
Puddleglum2 over 11 years ago
Is that jump from the Empire State Building documented or only a ledge(d)?
jkhandy over 11 years ago
You’ve proven my point. Thanks!