[Les Paul]

My wife and I happened to be out in the back yard watching our son and his crew doing the zip line. Son and I had gone to the hardware store and purchased a sweet little pulley and rigged it on the zip line. My son went first and because they'd been using a looped rope and hanging on for dear life they'd make it about 2/3rd of the way and bail off. So first time with the pulley my son goes first and heading to a headlong with the fence we yelled bail, bail now. He did and no problem. Next victim launches and because the speeds were so much faster than before his feet swing way over his head and in a panic he bails about 15 feet above ground landing flat on his back. My son runs up and proceeds to tell him he'll live he's only had the breath knocked out of himself. Never having had that happened he thought he was dead.

How they lived through all that I'll never know.