Using fire extinguishers for thrust is a joke about the futility of carrying them to extinguish a bush fire. That's how I read it anyway.

Meh, starting from:

1. Fight forest fire. 2. thrust for wingsuit

Given how useless they'd be at 1. I suspect they would be more useful at 2. Not very useful in either case however...

If the options are do something useless, or do something useless that looks cool, doing the cool thing is strictly better.

...Legally speaking, that would not be the case, as you're giving the prosecution ammo for proving premeditation.

Someone who actually just had something happen to them probably would not be carrying two fire extinguishers that they suddenly had an epiphany and realized they could use as a thrust source.

Our legal system is absolutely perfect for ensuring that "cool" will almost always get couched as "reckless and wanton disregard". This does however, push the calculus in favor of, "if you're going to do it, get the most out of it".

> this account has come to my attention a couple of times by now

As yours has mine.

> and I'm considering pinging a higher power.

Delusions of grandeur.