While pulling weeds in his son's garden at Palm Beach, north of Sydney, he fell backwards over a cliff, landed on rocks and cut his head.
Jumping a 50-foot cliff, landing, then rocketing away at 60 miles an hour makes you feel damn good.
He gets lost and falls off a high cliff, landing on a small ledge.
Eighty years ago the cliff-land here was thronged with curious sightseers, including my grandfather and uncle who drove from St Dominic to view the wreck of the Herzogin Cecilie with its masts towering towards the spectators.
As she is being transported to jail, Homer attempts to break her free from the prison bus, but the chase ends in what appears to be her death when the bus drives off a cliff and lands in the water, where it explodes and sets off a rock avalanche which buries it.
As his pursuers got close he spurred his horse over the cliff and landed in a crab apple tree.
In so doing, he marched the bank off a cliff edge, landing taxpayers with a £45billion bailout and helping precipitate the worst recession since the 1930s, before leaving with a £342,000-a-year pension.
In February, video of him performing a double BASE jump — parachuting from one cliff and landing on a pinnacle of another, where he repacked his chute and jumped again — was picked up by the Huffington Post, among others.
Their big favorite was "Memoirs of a Geisha," a HUGE chick flick which isn't even in the hunt, and "King Kong," which went flying off a cliff and landed with four nominations.
Apparently as our first act of political will in 2013, we have "kicked the can down the road" to sail the can past the "fiscal cliff" to land somewhere where we can rediscover it in time for the "big fight" in March.
