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Miniature Baumgartner jumps from 128,000ft

Playmobil Lego or it didn't happen

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On Sunday, Austrian Felix Baumgartner leapt into the record books when he skydived from 128,100 feet (39,045 meters), possibly going supersonic as he plunged earthwards over New Mexico.

Simultaneously, somewhere in Holland, his diminutive twin made his own bid for glory, albeit from a slightly less heady height:

Good stuff. Our own heroic playmonaut was unavailable for comment this morning, since he's currently on a classified Special Projects Bureau black op. ®

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Record?

Don't think it's been declared an official record yet. I suspect that's because they're mulling over whether they have to do the usual speed record thing of asking him to repeat the feat in the opposite direction...

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Awesome

That is all..........

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That was the funniest thing since

grandma caught her left tit in the mangle!

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