This May Have Been a Mistake

I didn't expect the wind to hurt this much.

Have you ever heard if you throw a penny off a skyscraper it could kill someone? I'd imagine wind resistance would play a key factor in the fatality percentage; otherwise rain would have the probability of instantaneous death.

Someone should make a graph: chances of death up the side; shape and weight of the object across the bottom. They'd need multiple scales to take weather into account. It could be more work than anyone would care to do.

Would humans be close to sacks of potatoes?

This may have been a mistake.


Originally published in The Pacific NW Inlander