Chinese Tourist Sustains Broken Leg In Paraglider Accident In Pattaya Bay

[Rimmer]

Chinese Tourist sustains broken leg in Paraglider accident in Pattaya Bay

PATTAYA:--Extreme water sports always carry a risk and a 53 year old Chinese Tourist found this out on Tuesday afternoon off the coast of Pattaya.

newsjsMr. Hen Xing rented 30 minutes on a paraglider attached to a speedboat which was operated by the Chockchai Parachute Company. Everything was going well until Mr. Xing began to descend. The speed boat slowly reduced speed but the descent was too quick and Mr. Xing’s legs hit the water at a high rate of speed causing a suspected broken right leg.

FULL STORY:http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/74389/chinese-tourist-sustains-broken-leg-paraglider-accident-pattaya-bay/

-- Pattaya One 2013-02-13

[Spalpeen]

Given the thousands of tourists you see parasailing around the bay every day, the number of serious accidents in this activity is remarkably low.

[HeavyDrinker]

How does one "sustain" a broken leg...? Is the geezer fondling it as he flies....????

Who writes this shit???

[fakename]

Years ago, I tried this too, and they nearly landed me on another boat! The bay was filled with other boats, both moving and anchored, with anchor lines everywhere, and my driver was trying to avoid them, but losing speed, so I came down just a few meters from an anchored boat.

[doctormann]

Perfectly legitimate use of the word.

This from the Farlex Free Dictionary

sus·tain(s-stn)

tr.v. sus·tained, sus·tain·ing, sus·tains

1.

To keep in existence; maintain.

2.

To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for.

3.

To support from below; keep from falling or sinking; prop.

4.

To support the spirits, vitality, or resolution of; encourage.

5.

To bear up under; withstand:

can't sustain the blistering heat.

6. To experience or suffer:

sustained a fatal injury.

7.

To affirm the validity of:

The judge has sustained the prosecutor's objection.

8.

To prove or corroborate; confirm.

9.

To keep up (a joke or assumed role, for example) competently.

[HeavyDrinker]

6. To experience or suffer: sustained a fatal injury.

Indeed! The "fatality" part indicates the fact that it is 'sustained'.....

One usually 'suffers' an non-fatal injury....to sustain it is just silly....

[renrut salohcin]

How does one "sustain" a broken leg...? Is the geezer fondling it as he flies....????

Who writes this shit???

Perfectly good English. Infinitely better than yours.

[renrut salohcin]

6. To experience or suffer: sustained a fatal injury.

Indeed! The "fatality" part indicates the fact that it is 'sustained'.....

One usually 'suffers' an non-fatal injury....to sustain it is just silly....

Not as silly as you Einstein.