BASE Jumping: Not Suicide, But Sure Looks Like It

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196383,00.html ^ | May 22, 2006

[Screaming_Gerbil]

Well 1941 - 1999 means she was 57 or 58 years old when she died.

From the pictures she was not bad looking and seemed to be in decent physical shape with a decent figure at the time of her final jump.

Myself, I've got to wonder if part of her wanted to go out that way. Maybe the inattention to detail (apparently not sure how to operate the borrowed chute) was kind of a deliberate indifference...

I think she could have made a better (more stylish) choice in her outfit to jump with - the striped "prisoner" outfit looks stupid. (Plus I think the prisoner outfits are all pretty much bright orange nowadays anyway).

She could have gone with a Supergirl or Wonder Woman outfit at least. She still would have looked cool being arrested by the park police and led away in handcuffs as Supergirl or Wonder Woman...

Oh well -at least think of the money she saved by not getting her own chute confiscated by the park police...

[VOA]

I admire the people who fuel themselves this way. It's part of Americana.
The brave. HELO heroes in the Armed Forces do this sort of thing to protect us.

Just as profiled in those "We've Been Waiting For You" commercials
done for the military.

I'm not one of those adrenalline junkies (and I say that in the good sense).
But they sure could do worse than putting their energy to use in the military.

[Calvin Locke]

Depends. There is/was one bridge in WV, iirc, that the authorities set aside one day or weekend/year that they
won't bother people that march, er jump, to a different drummer.

A lot of praying goes on. For decent weather, that is.

[USNBandit]

I think the deal was she was jumping with a bunch of other people, knowing the NPS police were waiting for them at the bottom to arrest them. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole group was decked out in similar outfits.

[mugs99]

Base jumpers are children in adult bodies, jumping off the roof with an umbrella.
When I became a man ...

You lost your spirit?
.

[Energy Alley]

the parting shot every Friday was "so if your not in on Monday, do we check the county jail, state hospital or the morgue?"

[David Allen]

When I became a man, I put away childish things, like base jumping. When you become a man, you turn your interests to things that matter, like teaching kids how to hit a baseball, or dribble a basketball, or just let mom have some time off.

Boys keep playing after they've become adults. Men become fathers and leaders. When they play, it's to teach and instruct kids.

Base jumping is vandalism for parachutists, and expense and trouble for everyone else.