[Free]

Jim Rooney:
If you go running off a mountain strapped to a complete stranger in a giant kite, well, if you can't see that that's a dangerous activity… tough s***.

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25189&start=20

Buyer beware hooking into a giant kite when the stranger you also expect to hook in, doesn't.

[TadEareckson]

Damn. I wish I had been following that thread and had said that first.

[Free]

The irony was more than I could resist.

The Press - 2006/03/15
However, he took off without attaching himself.
In a video, he was seen to hold on to the glider for about fifty meters before hitting power lines.
Rooney and the passenger fell about fifteen meters to the ground.

[DarthVader]

Jim Rooney, not a very good example of a pilot, how long has Jim Rooney been at it now 6 years, or so? He can't top Jeff Hunt or Jack Walters no matter how many hours he has, he still don't know how to hook himself to a hang glider.

Jim Rooney:
If you go running off a mountain strapped to a complete stranger in a giant kite, well, if you can't see that that's a dangerous activity… tough s***.

I guess he figured that one out on his own

[Rick Masters]

Are you talking about the same Jim Rooney who knows that everybody could fly paragliders safely if only they knew as much about flying paragliders as safely as Jim Rooney?