B.A.S.E. Jumping

[StageLeft]

I suppose I would...sky diving is fun...I dunno though I think it's probably safer than base jumping. More time to recover if something bad happens.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: Czar
its extremely dangerous, people die from it all the time

Just consider it cleaning up the gene pool

 

[Kelemvor]

If you do it at a place that it's legal.. Then I hope you have a great time and it's a blast. If you do it somewhere it's illegal.. I hope your shoot opens backwards and you crash into the mountain/bridge/building/etc and break a few bones on your way to the ground wher eyou get arrested...

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Czar
its extremely dangerous, people die from it all the time

And people die from auto accidents ALL THE TIME, and from home injuries ALL THE TIME, and bear attacks ALL THE TIME!

Give me a break.

Sounds to me like you should carry a cast iron pan when BASE jumping, then.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: JasonSix78

Originally posted by: joshsquall
This is why I don't do it:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/badbasejump.html

Yeah, but something like that doesn't happen everytime you base jump. It's been said that statistically 1 out of every 2000 people die base jumping, more people die from bee stings and snow skiing a year.

-Jason

You use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post :roll:
If you understand the odds and decide to do it anyway - fine. But you have know idea what the hell you're talking about.

Do more people die skiing in a year then base jumping? Probably.
Is the percentage of skiers that die in a given year higher then the percentage of base jumpers?

Not even close: The rate of fatality was .72 per million skier/snowboarder visits. and average of about 39/year

Since you seem to have math issues, the comparable basejumping rate would be 500 deaths/million jumps

If people basejumped at the same rate they ski (57.1 million skier-days/year) there would be over 28,000 basejumping deaths a year.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
This is why I don't do it:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/badbasejump.html

omfg! :Q

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Czar
its extremely dangerous, people die from it all the time

And people die from auto accidents ALL THE TIME, and from home injuries ALL THE TIME, and bear attacks ALL THE TIME!

Give me a break.

except this is by far more dangerous, there was an interview with one base jumper who is pretty well known here, he travels all over the world to jump off unusual places and he was talking about deaths in base jumping. At first it was shocking, when he lost is first friend, then after a few more friends dying he sortof got used to it just being part of base jumping.

I realize it's dangerous, I was just annoyed at the "all the time" statement. no harm meant, it's more of a pet peave of mine.

 

[Pastore]

Cool link. They are all psychotic.

 

[BrokenVisage]

All your B.A.S.E......

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Czar
its extremely dangerous, people die from it all the time

And people die from auto accidents ALL THE TIME, and from home injuries ALL THE TIME, and bear attacks ALL THE TIME!

Give me a break.

Yeah but those things are unavoidable. Base jumping is completely avoidable.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
All your B.A.S.E you jump from are belong to us.

as soon as i read the title i expected a reply like this

 

[JonnyStarks]

Yeah I don't think that this is something you can dive right into (pardon the pun) and as far as 1 in 2000 jumpers dying... they are all VERY good at doing it, if everybody who thought about jumping did the numbers would be a fair bit higher I'm sure.

 

[loic2003]

MFL.