A Series Of Flight-Themed Bad Decisions

“You’ll believe a man can fly.”

That was the tagline to the original 1978 Superman film. Humanity has long since dreamed of flight. We’re always finding ways to hurl ourselves into the air to experience the wild blue yonder in all its glory.

The getting in the air part is easy. The hard part is staying up there. We… can’t quite get that part right just yet, at least without the aid of a jet engine. Here’s a little compilation of folks who wanted nothing more than to fly, and the unfortunate results from nearly every one of those decisions.

If nothing else, after the split second of concern, seeing a guy lurch through the air and hit the ground is pretty entertaining.

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