You reckon, Cargo Boy? A quick trawl of El Reg throws up:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10...blog_grounded/
along with a variety of similar stories.
Personally I find MM's "refuse to stop digging until I have to use the wind-up defence" attitude scary enough. We don't have standard RT in paragliding but even there people have learnt that sloppiness literally kills. Anyone with even the remotest understanding of how the brain works can see through the "there's only one ILS" argument in a split second.