In case anybody was wondering about the excitement in the Supes tonight - looks like a base jumper miscalculated. http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_so ... -mountains
I will refrain from any disreprectfulness so Joe doesn't spank me again. Enough said. But this stupidity deserves it.
According to spokesman Elias Johnson, a 30-year-old Casa Grande man leaped off the face of the mountain, but after he deployed his parachute, it got caught on the side of the cliff.
The man is wedged in a crevasse 150 feet up from the bottom of the mountain.
Air15 video showed the man huddled in his parachute on a narrow ledge.
Casa Grande man? Rob is this a neighbor of yours?
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life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Andy Rooney
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how bad is it that I like non-fatal accidents like this more for the fact that we don't have the "disrespectful posts will be deleted" warnings to deal with?
It said something about he packed his parachute backwards...
Dawn
--On the loose to climb a mountain, on the loose where I am free. On the loose to live my life the way I think my life should be...For we only have a moment and a whole world yet to see...I'll be looking for tomorrow on the loose. ---unknown--
Where's the line between a hiker who mistakes a game trail for "the" trail, and needs to be rescued, and the base jumper who mistakes whatever it might be and needs to be rescued? I know it's there somewhere.
Shawn
The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see.
I just read about the backwards bit myself. Unreal. Spend less time being a wild and crazy "bro", trying to become a YouTube meme, and more time doing things the right way. (Coming from someone who used to pack parachutes for a living ...)
Some of you referred to this incident as an accident. You have got to be kidding!
I consider base jumping the equivalent of Russian roulette with a six gun?
Has anyone ever posted a video of a successful base jump off of the Flatiron?
A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and restless as ever.
- Garth McCann from the movie Second Hand Lions
Dave1 wrote:I thought this was illegal in the Supes Wildness??? Is it just hang gliding that's illegal and not base jumping?
I was shocked to hear base jumping is legal in the Supes! I've heard it on both channel 3 and 10. I worked from home today and the news is all over this. The jumper is not going to be charged. Per Fox 10, their reasoning is other people in need of rescue won't call for help because they don't want to pay for the rescue.
I wanna go dirt-biking in the supes too! But if I get hurt I won't call for help if they're gonna fine me or charge me for the rescue so that makes it legal, right? :roll:
I'm not sure what my spirit animal is, but I'm confident it has rabies.
Dave1 wrote:I thought this was illegal in the Supes Wildness??? Is it just hang gliding that's illegal and not base jumping?
I was shocked to hear base jumping is legal in the Supes! I've heard it on both channel 3 and 10. I worked from home today and the news is all over this. The jumper is not going to be charged. Per Fox 10, their reasoning is other people in need of rescue won't call for help because they don't want to pay for the rescue.
In Arizona, hikers are not charged for rescues. Theoretically they can be, but it doesn't happen. I guess they are extending that to base-jumpers? I think they have charged some people for driving past barricades when the washes are running, using the "stupid motorist" law. Maybe there should be a "stupid basejumper" law?
There is a point of no return unremarked at the time in most lives. Graham Greene The Comedians
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I think they have charged some people for driving past barricades when the washes are running, using the "stupid motorist" law. Maybe there should be a "stupid basejumper" law?
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