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- ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34Things to note, after reading some uninformed comments:
Anytime that Stacy Keach show explains an accident for a dangerous sport, they always describe it wrong. This applies to clips about skydiving, ultralight flying or anything where the general public will likely not have the experience to know when they are being fed BS.
Her accident was not caused by a "sudden gust of wind". In both skydiving and BASE jumping, there exists the possibility that your canopy will open off-heading (that is, not flying straight ahead of you). This is what happened to her.
If you watch her opening, you can see her canopy open off heading and her lines twist up (imagine sitting on a swing and spinning it up into a spiral). You can see her attempting to clear them by kicking out of them in the opposite direction of the twist. She is in the process of this when she decides to raise a leg to mitigate colliding with the structure. Off heading openings can be caused by packing, body position at deployment and a host of other factors.
She didn't "brave bad conditions", she just had bad luck and paid a stiff price. - Gus1, on 10/12/2007, -13/+43not so clever now huh, bitch
- PojkePojke, on 10/12/2007, -8/+37I don't get why they call her "courageous" and offered up a "tribute" jump. While I took courage to jump, I think stupidity prevailed. The conditions weren't right and she still leaped.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30In the end, they all jumped together to tribute her idiocy. wtf.
- thehans, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21You know it's bad news when Stacey Keach is narrating your story.
- Blizaine, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25Archie,
You don't know what you are talking about. She hit the structure because it was magnetic and she was wearing metal. - Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19So courage is just the ability to ignore your survival instinct? I actually think better of cowards now.
- ghm101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22@PojkePojke, I think you are absolutely correct,
If you want to go base jumping, that’s fine, but for ***** sake use your judgement make the right decisions and get it right, that way nobody else has to risk their lives getting your arse out of the wringer. - wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18If you thought that hurt, try this basejumper's moans of agony on for size..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiKLMjSjgqE - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Install an ad blocker before going to ebaumsworld. Cost him money for stealing people's videos.
- acespades, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19Darwin selection in action...
- AMCer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Courage is when you ignore your survival instinct for the greater good... Like the soldiers at D-Day.
You're comment is still funny as hell! - dziban303, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Anyone else think this was anticlimactic and lame, or am I just in a bad mood right now?
- forcedfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Watch the video again.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7First she hangs "unconcious"
Then on the replay "Her lifeless body hangs..."
Which is it Stacy? Tell us! - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9*****, man, i couldnt watch the rest of that. his crying for help through the gurgles of his bashed in bloodied face was just too disturbing. way to go for who ever posted it on youtube, you sick *****
- ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Yikes, combination off-heading opening with line twists. She's lucky the canopy stayed inflated for the time spent flying into the tower until she gets hung up.
- JimNorton, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I am a hang glider pilot. Much like base-jumping hang gliding safely is about making GOOD decisions about when to and when NOT to fly based on the conditions.
When a hang glider pilot ( or base jumper ) makes a stupid decision and crashes you end up endagering those who come to your rescue.
Brave? Yes - but very stupid as well. - 8177, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11My thoughts exactly
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7idiots.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Again, there's risks in everything you do. There's a very high risk in base jumping. She understood what she was doing. It was her own fault and no one else's.
- medieval, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4what/where is that structure they are jumping from?
- sjm20k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'd also like to add that people have been smoking tobacco for as long as it's been known that it could actually be smoked - do you honestly think that before the surgeon general's warning people didn't realize that it had negative effects? You'd think the coughing would tip them off, and it did. People chose to do it because it made them feel good and gave them pleasure in their normally tedious lives. If you want to be old and have a million babies, be my guest, play that game - I'd rather do what makes me happy on the off chance that something might pre-maturely end my life - and when that happens, what will I care, I'll be dead.
- Beamish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I think you are pretty accurate. It is exactly what it was on TV - an awful Fox special where the tease was more interesting than the payoff. Lame.
- nchambers42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
- umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ouch. That is disturbing.
- sjm20k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You're being pretty self-rightious. Im sure you'd be the first in line to call some of the best thinkers and artists of our time idiots because they smoked cigarettes. Smoking doesn't make a person and idiot. Maybe I don't want to live until I'm 80, or maybe I value pleasure in life over longevity. You're just like every other asshat who thinks that every other person on earth should behave as you do. If doing what I want in life and enjoying myself makes me an idiot, I'd rather be stupid and happy with my education than dumb and annoying on an internet message board.
- kwilliam71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hate videos with titles like this... I'm always afraid I'm going to have to watch some poor dude go splat and die (which gives me the willies to watch), but then I can't help but watch it either.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And she's blond.
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5i smoke. i find pleasure in it and i know the risk. still doesn't make it a smart thing to do. and noone's health insurance should have to subsidize the consequences of either activity.
- tripm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Watch the rescuers cop feels off of the unconscious hangygirl
- CraigJ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't think base jumping is in the same class as "flying a plane"
- sfmman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3anticlimactic, yes
- AMCer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5If you take un-necessary risks against your life for thrills, in my book, you're an idiot. But, these deaths and injuries are nature's way of weeding out idiots...
There's no difference between base-jumping thrill seekers and people who play Russian Roulette. - da5idblacksun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I had to shut it off too.
- DestRoYeD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does anyone know what the name of the Structure they were Jumping off was?
- sjm20k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2maybe all crackheads arent idiots - you have to give some weight to the risks though. Smoking cigarettes is much less dangerous to your health than smoking crack. I'm of the opinion that you ought to be able to do whatever you want to your body - but playing in traffic is different; when you start putting other people at risk you're being irresponsible, and I do draw the line there. You are free to seek pleasure on your own but other people shouldn't be put in danger because of it.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've never heard of "base jumping" before watching this. Is this like sky diving for people scared to fly in a plane? It seems incredibly pointless. I'm glad this girl didn't have to throw away her life for such a stupid cause.
- leha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostankino_Tower
- HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ok, that vid needed to end less than one minute in. There was absolutely NO reason for the vid to continue beyond that. Anybody who watched much more than that has something wrong with them.
- intense321, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Is it just me or is that chick hot?
- cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dam dude ...
- unbreakable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1She's one lucky girl.
And its a good thing she became unconsicious after the impact.....could have died of fright if she knew what was happening. - ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is nothing unusual about her jump at all, apart from the accident.
You can deploy at any altitude you feel safe at when BASE jumping. There is no "general" height at which you deploy (apart from "before hitting the ground") your canopy. Most jumpers will simply determine the height of the structure and calculate a delay time that we count in our heads (1001, 1002 etc) as we jump. Since most BASE jumps are below a thousand feet, an altimeter is useless (which is how skydivers determine activation altitude) so any other method of determining an activation altitude is pointless.
Regardless, even if she did open half way down, that itself doesn't indicate anything unusual or wrong.
Also, in terms of BASE jumps, this is actually quite a tall structure. Anything you can take a delay on is a tall BASE jump. Low ones would be in the 100-300' range. You don't take delays from that height. From that height you tend to jump with pilot chute in hand to deploy as soon as stable, static line it or have someone d-bag you.
You're right about the "both will fall" comment and it is simply another example of this show talking out their ass. - CypherXero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ha, afraid of flying, yet they'll fling themselves off a structure for basejumping.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They call them EXTREME sports for a reason...
- pronto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1anyone else notice at the end google added "add to blog/myspace"
what the hell google... - exsst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Im not playing it all, but did anyone see what happened at the end?.. was the guy ok?
- haxx4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hate when they add sound effects.
- diggmaddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i'm pretty sure it's little more than just ouch.
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