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Posted: 2019-03-04T07:40:05Z | Updated: 2019-03-04T07:40:05Z

BASE jumper Matt McGonagle was steps away from the kind of landing generally only seen in old Looney Tunes cartoons.

McGonagle was blown a little off course during a Jan. 31 leap from a 300-foot antenna in Arizona . In other jumps from the tower, clips showed McGonagle and his compatriots leaping into a clearing and onto a nearby road .

But in one case, poor wind conditions blew McGonagle right into a cactus patch. He managed to barely avoid landing right on some cactuses, then let out a few cartoon-like squeals as he quickly dodged several crotch-high cacti in a row:

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