If you are at least 12 (and can talk dad into signing the
waver) you can go skydiving. There’s no upper age limit, but the average age
for skydivers is 33. You don’t see a lot of 60-somethings jumping out of
airplanes. Patrick Wiggins is a notable exception to that rule. Patrick is 69
years old, and has completed 994 jumps to date. He has plenty of stories to
tell, but his best might be what happened a few weeks ago. He’d just jumped and
was in free fall when he saw something slip out of his pocket. After he landed
he reached for his cell phone and realized it had fallen without him. He used a
computer to turn on the “find my phone” feature. His phone had dropped 13,200
feet and landed in the grass without a scratch! “It doesn’t have a high
terminal velocity,” Patrick explains. “Or maybe it came from Hogwarts. They put
a protection spell on it.”
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