I have never ever Bungee jumped....as a result of this I have never ever put myself in harms way.....this message was delivered to you by the anti Darwin Award Brigade....
You can thanks us 40 years from now...
3 bungee jumps to my name, the last one off the Bloukrans Bridge... a wonderful experience...
Tragically a woman in Columbia has died when she misunderstood the jump signals and jumped before the bungee cord was attached to her ankles. She and her boyfriend were jumping and his cord had been attached but hers hadn't, he was given the signal to go and she thought it was for her so jumped early.
Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:46 pm
by 1DC
Sorry just read the previous thread properly!!!!!!
I have never ever Bungee jumped....as a result of this I have never ever put myself in harms way.....this message was delivered to you by the anti Darwin Award Brigade....
You can thanks us 40 years from now...
3 bungee jumps to my name, the last one off the Bloukrans Bridge... a wonderful experience...
Ah, that explains things. A friend of mine did similar in NZ, guess in his 70s and after a hip replacement.
A friend of mine did similar in NZ, guess in his 70s and after a hip replacement.
I would be afraid that my legs would pull out of their sockets.
He was actually in a wader suit, went feet first.
Apart from TGGs mention of the girl, I believe another the bungee was too long.
Twas 1DC who mentioned the girl PN.
In the week that I made my first bungee jump from a crane over the car park behind the The General Elliot in Uxbridge (know affectionately as The General Idiot), some French bloke came unstuck bungee jumping from a hot air balloon. The chord had been specially measured to give him a 100 feet above the ground bounce back, taking account of chord stretch for his weight, but they screwed up on the QFE, the balloon was too low, and he buried his head in the earth.
Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:12 pm
by Hydromet
Bungee jumping has been described as "glue sniffing for yuppies."
Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:37 pm
by EA01
The original bungee jumpers...
something else I will never do in life.....
Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:30 am
by Pontius Navigator
I am pleased to say that bungee jumping is safer than catching Covid in a care home.
Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:57 pm
by 4mastacker
I remember watching one of David Attenborough's reports many years ago (t'was in black and white) when he featured those jumpers. Apparently, before they jumped, they got themselves well and truly doped up on some local brew made from the crushed roots of the Kava plant.
Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:10 pm
by bob2s
Having stood next to the tower and watched the entire proceedings. I would say they were not doped up,kids about12 jumped from the lower platforms
and the elders jumped from the highest platforms.All the women of the tribe pranced around and chanted and whistled prior to each jump,at the end of
the dayit was just this dust bowl emanating noise.About every three jumps a vine would snap, but they all appeared to come away uninjured,this was due to the vine coils straightening,the platform supports breaking,the fall of the slope and the days prior spent digging and softening the ground below the tower. Admission back then (1968) was based upon the size of your camera.
Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:37 am
by EA01
Wow Bob!, that is interesting indeed! I cannot imagine what it must have been like back in '68!
local brew made from the crushed roots of the Kava plant.
Um, no, having visited a number of Nakamals and having imbibed plenty of Kava in the past....that is not something you are about to go and do on a Kava high....well not me at least!
Re: Darwin Awards
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:12 am
by llondel
As "novel" is a requirement, this one certainly has that.
A gunman who opened fire at a party early Monday in Texas, fatally shooting one person, died after attendees struck him with bricks, authorities said.
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The gunman was struck multiple times with at least one brick and pronounced dead at the scene
