Do You Like Danger ? 'How About One Of These Jobs Hmmm'

Alligator  Wrestler , Florida
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?

Photography Can be dangerous

Subject: Grand Canyon Photographer.

This was a case of one photographer taking pictures of another.The following photos were taken by Hans van de Vorst of the Netherlands at the edge of the Grand Canyon - Arizona. The descriptions are his own. The identity of the photographer is unknown.

I was simply stunned to see this guy standing on a solitary rock at the grand canyon. The canyon's depth is 900 metres (3000 ft). The rock on the right is next to the canyon wall and is much safer. Watching this guy in his flip flop sandals, with camera and tripod, raised some questions. How did he get there with photographic equipment in tow? How will he get back? Why didn't he take the sunset picture from the safe rock?

After the sun set behind the canyon's horizon he packed up his things and prepared to jump.This process took about two minutes. At that point he was the focus of all the tourists visiting the canyon. He is now at the point of no return.

He jumped in his flip flops. Now you can see the safe rock is higher, so he had to land lower which was quite steep and use his free hand to try and grab hold of the rock.
We've come to the end of this story. Look carefully at the photographer. He has a camera,a tripod and also a plastic bag, all on his shoulder or in his left hand. Only his right hand is available to grab the rock and the weight of his stuff is a problem. He lands low. Both his right hand and right foot are slipping. At that very moment I take this shot. He then pushes his body against the rock, waits for a few seconds, throws his stuff up on the flat rock,climbs up and walks away, presumably to a bathroom to change his shorts. I know I had to change mine and I was just watching....Hans van de Vorst