Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BRUNSWICK, N.J.-A Rutgers University student panel has absolved the Chi Psi fraternity of responsibility for the critical injury of a 22-year-old student who jumped 28 feet onto a concrete ramp, apparently while drunk at a football game...
...WELLS JUMPS CAESARS PALACE FOUNTAINS. So he does, and the result fully lives up to the name of the stunt's sponsor, ABC's thrill-pandering series That's Incredible! While gawkers gawked and cameras whirred, Wells, a professional stunt man, gunned a motorcycle up a ramp, sailed over the water fountains outside the showplace, but crashed on his descent. Result: a ruptured aorta and fractures of the pelvis, thigh and lower...
...Games show, a stunt driver named Spunky piloted a car off a 45-ft.-high ramp into a lake. The camera focused on the clenched face of his wife as rescue divers made their way to the sunken auto. Would Spunky survive his dive? (Answer: yes.) In another segment, Motorcyclist Rex Black well roared off a ramp and over two parked helicopters as their blades whirled at 350 r.p.m. "He barely cleared the last blade!" exulted the commentator as a slow-motion replay showed just how close Blackwell had come to being converted to steak tartare...
...clad head-to-blue jeans in Expos regalia--spoke to himself as he shuffled down the ramp. "I spent over a thousand dollars to come here from Winnipeg," he said. "Now, I'm going home empty-handed." And with that, he bent over so the passing mob wouldn...
...scene of the shooting, police discovered a .30-06-cal. shell casing on a grassy mound in a triangle formed by an exit ramp from Interstate 69, about 40 yds. from where Jordan collapsed. Three patches of matted grass were found in the area, indicating that at least one gunman had been waiting for Jordan with a hunting rifle. But the FBI refused to speculate about whether more than one assailant was involved. Police scoured the area by helicopter and on their hands and knees. They searched nearby trash bins and sewers and interviewed guests but turned up only...