If the FAA doesn’t already have a rule against texting while parachuting – I bet they consider it after this. The Samsung Mobile XTREME TEXTING event attempted to set a Guiness World Record for texting while parachuting (who knew there was a category for such a thing). Ten skydivers jumped from 12,000 feet in airspace just outside of Los Angeles city limits. They were attempting to establish a record for “Fastest Text Messaging While Skydiving”. The phrase they texted? “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”. To qualify, the message had to be sent by all skydivers within one minute. The phones used all contained full QWERTY keyboards. I have NO idea how all 10 of them remembered the phrase they were supposed to text while free falling from an airplane:

- Samsung Propel
- Samsung Gravity
- Samsung Rant
- Samsung Alias
- Samsung Messager

Samsung Mobile XTREME TEXTING

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