Woman, 80, slips from skydiving harness and lives.

Lavern went skydiving for her 80th birthday and slipped from her harness. (Screen grab)

An 80-year-old woman who said she's wanted to skydive "for years" barely made it to the ground alive after she slipped out of her harness, with only her instructor's grip on her clothes stopping a 13,000-foot plummet. 

The woman, only known as "Lavern" appears calm and collected in an online video as she waits to jump out of a plane, telling the man behind the camera this is how she wants to celebrate her 80th birthday. 

But at the last minute, she panics and clings to the aircraft's door as her tandem instructor pushes them both out into the sky.

Then, she slips from her harness, and plummets the rest of the way bent almost in half, her shirt and jacket hauled up and her skin literally flapping in the wind.

The video, posted to YouTube Thursday, shows the instructor bring Lavern to the ground all in one piece.

The video indicates the jump took pace at the Parachute Center in Acampo, Calif.

Cat Divorce: Israeli Man Divorces Wife Over Her 550 Cats

 

A man from southern Israel is divorcing his wife because she adopted 550 pet cats.

According to paper, the unnamed man complained in his divorce documents that the hundreds of kitties hindered his home life at every turn: they blocked the entrance to the bathroom, swarmed the kitchen, and stalked him at mealtime by stealing his food off the table.

And though the couple reportedly gave reconciliation a shot at the behest of the rabbinical court, the wife ultimately choose the cats over her husband, and the pair decided to go their separate ways.