When you are hopping into the ring with an alligator , some days the alligator wins , as a 15-year veteran gator wrestler "Rocky Jim' of the Everglades 'Miccosuhees Indian Village .
"You never see it coming . He's been bitten five times , in one spectacularly nerve-racking show , Jim recalls , wrestler Kenny Cypress head ended up in the gator's jaws , which had to be open by two men and a crowbar . Cypress was dragged away with only a fractured jaw .
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Hand Gliders ---Lookout Mountain , Trenton ,Georgia
A hand-gliding guide , towed by an ultra-light aircraft to 2,000 feet or more ambitious 4,000 feet , not only has to glide safely past Lookout Mountain to the Valley below .
Not only is he strapped to what is basically a big kite , but he has to do it with a client , who's usually terrified and has never done such a thing before . He knows it's solely his skill and equipment that will get him and the client safetly to the bottom .
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Bush Pilots , Alaska
Alaska bush pilot Jared Cumming of Alaska Wildness Expedition puts skis on his planes in the winter , "you just have to realize you don't have brakes ," he says . Landing can be unpredictable like the time a bear chased a moose and a calf in front of him as he landed . Luckily everyone survived , including the calf.
I will leave these jobs to the more adventurous and thrill seeking people . Any takers?
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