SWAT rappeller looses pants

[Evan G]

Besides SWAT's don't do that type of rappel anyway because they need to be able to enter the building and get off rope immediately, via through an opened (or sometimes closed) window, so this mean normal type of rappelling facing the wall and heads up.

Did not know that, thanks Ralph.

I like the roll of Duct Tape(assuming it is) that is attached to the SWAT guy's waist. I'm sure that can be incorporated into the rescue.

[George Dasher]

Hey Scott!

THANKS!!

The link was what it took.

[chh]

Man, I think I would be really scared if I was hanging like that. Especially if I landed there all of a sudden. I hope he didn't crater. And now, having said that.......

BWAHHHHAHAHAHA!

I don't think this guy made the cut to be on the swat team. Looks like the rope he's rapping on is probably one half of a fixed, doubled rope. If he was a real man, he'd just grab the other strand and get into a dulfersitz! Leave that silly 'ol harness hanging there. Plus, if it was a matter of the harness slipping because it wasn't doubled back or something, he's on a time bomb anyway.

This picture reminds me of the new guys who come into the climbing gym I go to and put on a harness for the first time and immediately start complaining about how it hurts their bits and pieces. I can just hear the machismo at the top of the training tower. "Oh, I have such huge nutz! This harness is too tight, I've got to loosen it up. Did I mention I'm well endowed?"