Lawyer of the Day: You Can’t Kill a Good Lawyer, Even if you Drop Her Out of a Plane
Forgive my ignorance, but my understanding is that skydiving “accidents” result in fatalities. Always. Jumping out of a freaking plane should not be a survivable circumstance.
But that is apparently not the case. At least not for Kristin Adduci, a Buffalo lawyer at Lewis & Lewis. Fox reports:
The Orleans County sheriff’s office says Kristin M. Adduci was knocked unconscious as she hit the ground around 10 p.m. Saturday at the Pine Hill Airport in Barre, which is about 30 miles east of Rochester.Rochester Skydivers manager D.C. Cordaro says Adduci overshot her landing area by about 50 feet and came down hard in an adjoining field. Cordaro says the 33-year-old Buffalo lawyer broke her nose but was doing well Sunday, after being treated at a hospital.
She jumped out of a plane at night? Yeah, she’s getting the “daredevil” trait when I create her character in The Sims 3.
After the jump, some more information about Adduci.
There is nothing in her law firm bio that suggests that Adduci has no fear of death:
Upon graduating from Albany Law School in 2000, I began my legal career working in the area of workers’ compensation. The years of experience I gained while defending insurance carriers in workers’ compensation cases was invaluable. However, I felt that a change was needed and I am now dedicated to helping injured workers and their families.I am very pleased and proud to be working at Lewis and Lewis, P.C. on behalf of injured workers because I understand that work injuries and other unforeseen events can alter a person’s life forever. It is my mission to guide you through the Workers’ Compensation process as smoothly as possible while pursuing every possible legal avenue on your behalf.
I look at a lawyer jumping out of a plane, missing her mark, and living to tell about it as a metaphor for the economic situation many attorneys are facing. Are things going as planned? No. Is there a high probability that you will end up splattered all over the ground? Yes.
But if you keep your wits about you, if you are trained and skilled, you just might escape the whole Great Recession mess with little more than a broken nose and a great story.
Skydiver Plummets to Ground During Failed Jump in Upstate New York [Fox News]
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Is it common for law firm bios to be written in the first person? I find that odd.
Good metaphor.
Not knowing the facts, not sure what the big deal is....sounds like her chute opened and some winds knocked her a little off course. Eons ago in high school we had a presentation (Up With People, or something like that) at the school's football stadium, some paratroopers were supposed to land on the 50 yard line, one of the paratroopers had an issue, whether misjudgment or a sudden gust of wind, but the guy came up short (far longer than 50 feet off course) and smacked Wile E. Coyote style into the security fence around the stadium.
I think the guy eventually was ok, but 1,600 high school students had a big laugh that day.
Please do a follow up interview with her--amazing story!
There are multiple real-life skydiving "accidents" that aren't fatalities, including quite a few involving the military. Try doing a little research next time you decide to make a blanket generalization.
Please do a follow up interview with her--amazing story!
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That is the most worthless newspaper article I have ever read. Just what does "bungled the landing" mean? Sounds to me like her chute opened but she misjudged the landing, and thus hit hard - not that she fell from 10,000 feet.
Congrats, Elie, on assuming the most unbelieveable and idiotic interpretation of this story without hesitation, though. Nice job. Really.
Her nose broke her fall? [Insert Italian joke here.]
"A white male would have died; a Latina female would have bounced gently off her bountiful behind."
-- SotomayOR!
9,
What sound do Italian tires make?
Elie is into Sims 3? Never would have guessed.
This happened because she is not a latina. Clearly, God only favors latinas.
Supreme Court Justice SotoMAYOr
how is this even remotely law related?
Breaking News (literally): "Sotomayor Brakes Ankle at NY Airport:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98MKNKO0&show_article=1
Ohhhhh, snap. (Get it?)
Can you do the next story on puppies or kittens, this was not quite uplifting enough!
Props to 3
For adding a twist to the “guys in my high school/no big deal” meme.
Me thinks she's hot.
Q: What do you call 20 lawyers skydiving?
A: A perfect setup for skeet shooting.
Elie apparently doesn't understand that not all skydiving mishaps involve the parachute failing to open.
Believe it or not, there's some steering and speed control involved in skydiving, hence the talk of overshooting the landing area.
4/6 and Elie are apparently retarded
I'd bang her.
Elie, I've always supported you, even when the others said you were an idiot. But her chute opened for Christ's sake. All that happened is that she fell and smacked her face on the ground.
I'm losing faith big guy.
15: Are you sure you quoted that headline correctly? I think not.
Ellie,
This is an unbelievable screw up, even for you. Her chute opened. Why is this even a story?
Is she single?
On review, she is hot. Must be married - why else would she stay in Buffalo?
MysTTTal
YOU FAT FUCK
During airborne school, I saw a guy's chute collapse and he burned in. We all thought we would go splat. He got up and walked away. Not something to count on, but it does happen.
definitely lawyer hot
Carrie Curvin is HOT
I knew a girl who lived through a jump from 12,500 where neither her main nor her reserve chute deployed (the lines were tangled). What little bit of flapping fabric came out of the pack slowed her down a little but she was never under canopy. She landed in a recently plowed field, had enough experience to hit the ground as well as she could and actually lived, although I believe she will never walk again. It was horrifying and pretty astonishing all at the same time.
A hard landing when you miss the target? Not so much.
It looks like her nose already sustained some abuse.
That's great that we can make jokes about Italians with big noses- Can we make jokes about Jews with big noses too? Let me know and I'll start throwing some real knee-slappers out there
She. Is. Cute.
This is non-news. She's TTT.
That's nothing. A lawyer in my firm jumped out of an airplane at 10,000 feet, her chute malfunctioned, she hit the ground at an estimated 60mph, and somehow lived to tell about it.
Is that a before or after photo above?
33 - let 'er rip
Yum, I'd break her fall!
Forget Kristin Adduci or Carrie Curvin, I think Holly Schoenborn and Colleen Malchow are a couple of piece's of a$$.
Forget Kristin Adduci or Carrie Curvin, I think Holly Schoenborn and Colleen Malchow are a couple of piece's of a$$.
Forget Kristin Adduci or Carrie Curvin, I think Holly Schoenborn and Colleen Malchow are a couple of piece's of a$$.
11, dago "wop, wop wop"
I'm tired of these MOTHERFUCKING LAWYERS ON THE MOTHERFUCKING PLANE!
-SLJ
Not reading article b/c this ATL entry is so flawed (there are so many common parachuting mishaps, like chutes that aren't fully inflated and cause hard landings, tangled lines, landing on electric lines). But I notice someone said she missed the landing site. Usually jumpers have a radio in a sewed pocket in the shoulder of their jumpsuits. Trust me it's almost impossible to navigate over from where you jumped out of the plane to the jumpsite (especially if you ride for a while out on the strut). Someone at home base tells them over the radio to turn left/right. And....then tells the jumper EXACTLY when to pull down on the cords (to land softly). If the radio isn't working, jumpers don't often land at the jump site and then pull the "brakes" too soon, causing rough landings. If it's night and you aren't landing at the jumpsite, it's so dark you can't see shit and she may have pulled the brake cords like 50 feet up - hugely rough landing.
Once I went jumping at a shitty jumpsite and the radios weren't working on any of my friends' suits. They were landing all over the damn place - like 10-15 miles from the site and then going to homes to use the phone to call us at the site.
Good time.
Colleen Malchow actually is kinda hot. I love the geeky gals.
I wonder how the weather was durring that jump?
I wonder how the weather was durring that jump?
First!
Mmmmmmm......ShoenChow sandwich. Then I'd try a MalBorne.
45,
No one cares. Way too much info ther GI-Joe.