Conference 7.286::sports_91

    
    Bungee jumping is pretty damn dangerous, isn't it?  Much more so than
    sky diving or hang gliding or stuff like that, from what I've heard...
    
    glenn
    

A bunch of guys from the team went when they were in New Zealand in 1989.

They said it was the rush of a lifetime, and the most fun they'd ever had.

I'd give it a try if I could find a place...



You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.....8^)

'Saw

    
    'Saw,
    
    	They don't make bungees strong enough to hold prop butted
    	folk yet.........
    
    Claybone ;^)

 C'mon, 'Saw, if you're gonna do this, you're gonna have to do it right.
 
 Remember that old National Geographic special showing the tribe of African
 natives who do the bungee jumping thing from the top of a tree with the
 jungle vines tied around their ankles ???
 
 And how the vines were just the right length so that they'd stop falling
 like maybe an inch before the tops of their skulls met solid ground ???
 
 That's what I'd pay to see you do !!!
 
 Bob Hunt

    
    >	They don't make bungees strong enough to hold prop butted
    >	folk yet.........
    
    HAHAHAHA.  I'd love to see Roseanne Barr try this on Circus of the
    Stars.  Sure beats Brooke Shields standing on a frikken pony.
    
    Dickstah
    

    There's a hellacious gorge on Rt. 100 in southern Vermont (just off 
    I-89) that should do the trick.
    
    Mark.

    Re:6 Quechee Gorge is what you are thinking of Mark...
    
    Saw what happened to a GTO after he tried to jump the gorge back in 1968.
    The guy built a dirt ramp to jump it... Hit the ramp about 90....
    The front end hit about 5 feet from the edge.....
    
    REK
                                       
    The guy was quite drunk at the time.

    REK, what's the elevation of that gorge?  It's gotta be over 500 feet. 
    A few years ago, a NHerite pushed his girlfriend off just before he
    jumped.  Not a pleasant ride down.
    
    Mark.

 Bob, you jogged my memory with that story. Remember all them old Tarzan Flicks
 where the natives would tie the prisioners legs to the tied down bent over
 trees then cut the ropes?

 I think that's what Ralph Malph had in mind when he always used to want to
 request a human sacrifice on "You Asked For It".....

 kind of makes a wrong snap on a bungie jump seem tame....

 ;^)

There is a outfit in Colorade that will take you about 1000' up in a Hot 
Air Balloon and give you a 120' then a 200' bungee jump for about $175.00

    
    >  Not a pleasant ride down.
           
    Actually, the ride down could be quite thrilling.  It's the sudden stop
    that discourages most people.
    
    Dickstah
    

    
    I knew the girl who was murdered. Her name was Diane Harmon and
    we were good friends. Unfortunately she got hooked up with a 
    physcopath. She was a great kid, we had alot of fun. I certainly hope
    that the good Lord has taken care of her.
    
    
    Steve

    The Gorge at the bridge is about 400- 425 down to the river. I've have
    seen/watch people (men) try to fish from it... What a riot....
    If you go across the bridge take a left and park. Then you can walk down
    to the bottom.....
    
    REK
    
    Standing on the sidewalk on the bridge when a full loaded logging truck
    goes by is something you will always remember.... The whole GD bridge
    shakes like hell... I think thats where those "Shaker Quakers" got
    their name.... :-}

Well, if the setup for bungee jumping is anything like a rock climbing
harness (and the New Zealand set up was), that's not a problem.  About
8 or 9 years ago I went rock climbing a couple of times and feel about
15 feet once.  You really don't feel the harness on you when that happens....

I think bungee jumping would be fun....

'Saw

'Saw,

If you want to do some manly bungee jumping come back out this way. We'll let 
yo ujump off of deception Pass. It's where they filmed the reebok commercial 
that got pulled off the air. The one where one guy pumps and jumps and the guy 
wearing Mikes doesn't and all that's left of the Nike wearer is his shoes.

Some of the fastest flowing currents in the world if you survive a cord breaking
and the plunge into the sound.


Metz

    Remember, use Reeboks ...

    ASaw -
    
    I watched some Bungee Jumpers in Australia - crazy stuff.  It is real
    big in New Zealand - but I won't try it there either.  I know that
    there is a bungee jumping bridge outside of Vancouver, B.C.  Some guys
    on the GENESYS project did it - I saw the video tape - yowza.
    
    I'd never do it - too nuts.
    
    JD

    One of the women who worked at the Fitness Center at MCC vacationed in
    New Zealand last year.  She had scheduled a bungee jump but it was
    cancelled due to an accident that happened just before she got there.

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    Re:6 Quechee Gorge is what you are thinking of Mark...
    
>    Saw what happened to a GTO after he tried to jump the gorge back in 1968.
>    The guy built a dirt ramp to jump it... Hit the ramp about 90....
>    The front end hit about 5 feet from the edge.....
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   
    REK, how could you tell?  Was there some sort of mark left in the air
    five feet in front of the edge of the cliff?
    
    'saw, don'y you mean you want to go Bundy jumping?  I thought so.
    
    Bruce
                                       
   

 There's a bungee jumping business down here called "Balloons Over
 Charlotte".   Guy's making money by the fistful.    Takes 'em up,
 straps 'em in and out they go.
 
 Bob Hunt

    How about that Boston bridge (Mystic?) that carries the expressway over
    the bay into Charlestown? ;-)
    
    Mike

    Yeah, Chuck Stuart forgot to tie the cord to his ankles when he tried
    it.
    
    Mark.

    >> Yeah, Chuck Stuart forgot to tie the cord to his ankles when he tried
    >>  it.
         

    Bruce, the local paper (The VAlley News) carried the whole story...
    Including pics... Plus you could  go see right where he hit the  wall
    with his car...
    
    REK
    
    The only bundy jumping I want to do is kelly.... :-}
    The only bungy jumping I want to do is with a trojan... :-}

    To my limited knowledge, the western world's version of bungee jumping
    doesn't let you get anywhere close to the ground at the bottom of the
    jump.
    
    So... Isn't a loong wait while they haul your pulse-racing bod back up? 
    Or am I missing something totally?
    
    Command Scott

While not exactly bungee jumping, officials opened up the 800' bridge
in Virginia for the yearly parachute jump off it.  Four people busted
bones, but no one died.

Three people have been killed in the past....

That's West by Gawd Virginia, Saw. It's a bridge over the New River. Ever
since it's been open, people have jumped off it in various and sundry
ways. For a while, they were doing bungee jumping but they outlawed that.
For some reason they let anyone who wanted parachute off of it.

There was a pretty serious breeze blowing which caused a lot of people to
end up in the woods. The gorge there is pretty narrow anyway. At last
count, there were 9 injured, no one critically or fatally.

TTom

>That's West by Gawd Virginia, Saw. It's a bridge over the New River. Ever


Well, I knew it was one of them there 'ginnies.  I caught the tail end
of the report on CNN, so I had to guess.  Guessed wrong, I reckon.....


8^)

    Caught this on the local station during the morning drive.
    
    A Canadian firm which offers Bungee jumping packages is offering a
    promo:  Anyone who jumps NUDE jumps for free.  They also have made an
    agreement with the Canadian gov. where persons accepting the package
    will not be procecuted for indecent exposure or any other related
    charge.
    
    Unfortunetly, either the company name wasn't mentioned, or I missed it. 
    But with some research ... (go for it 'Saw).

I'd go for it except for ONE thing....

I'm over the weight limit.  From what I've heard, and found out
from the local concern, the weight limit is 235.  I'm at least two
pounds over that, and perhaps five....


Guess I'll have to confine my activities to Velcro jumping, which
is all the rage in the bars around New Haven...


'Saw

 But if you jumped in the buff, 'Saw, you'd be _under_ the weight limit.
 
 Bob Hunt

I always weigh myself nude and dry.....


Actually, I think the situation is not so much that I've
put on weight from eating, but more that I've put on
some muscle since I've spent so much time in the
gym.  

I'll have to weight until after the spring/summer when I do 
a lot more running, to see if I can't make that weight
limit....


'Saw

    re: .33
    
    New Haven sounds like a real hopping place :-)
    
    The Crazy Met
    

Actually, New Haven is a pretty fun party town.

Yale is there, and those kids can party, plus, you're really not
that far from New York, so you do get some of that metropolitan
influence.

The bars are always doing the latest things.


Finally, Toad's Place is there, and Toad's is probably the hottest 
bar around because they have concerts there all the time.  You're
like five feet away from some great bands.  Couple of years back,
they locked the doors around 11:30pm on a Saturday night, and a 
band took the stage -- ever hear of a group called the Rolling Stones?  8^)

I'm only about 45 minutes away, but I don't get down there enough to party...


'Saw

    235 is the limit ya say?????
    
    Hmmmmmmmm
    
    That means I'd be charged 1/2 price right?
    
    I remain,
    light.......
    Kev
    
    

NOT.

The price is prohibitive also.  I think it's like $99 for
one jump, $145 for two.  It's earlier in this topic where
I put the price in.

It just isn't worth it to me....

235, huh?  Have to get a haircut for that one.

j.

    235: Hey on some days I could go twice for the same price :-)
    
    The Crazy Met
    

Yeah, well I got on the scale this morning and I'm at 233.


Some of that will come off as the weather warms up, we continue
rugby practice, and I lean out some.

But, I'll still be lifting while this season goes on, so hopefully
by summer I will be at a weight is mostly muscle.  

I wanna be BIG.  In fact, I'd like to be HUGE.  Once I started 
seeing some results from the lifting (about 6 weeks it took) I
just got this craving to keep on doing it.   I wanna have guns
as big as LT's and I wanna have some lats that make JD's look
like girly-mon lats, even if mine are faux-lats, made in da gym...


'Saw

    Needle, you'll need more that a haircut!  
    
    Now, a tummy-tuck, that might get you under the limit!
    
    :*)
    
    lEE
    
    P.S.  I wasn't going to the get-together, but I don't like you anyway.
    
    :*)

    235?!  You guys are tubs!

Actually, I weigh the same as 'saw.  I'm just a bit more vertically
challenged than he is.

j.

John Hendry tells me I have an offensive lineman's stomach.

Other than that I wouldn't classify myself as a tub. 8^)

I'm stocky, and after I lean out this summer I'm gonna be
awesome.....


(Well, someone has to say that.  Nobody else ever does....)



'Saw

    
>>    <<< Note 165.45 by MIPSY::needle "Money talks. Mine says "Good-Bye!"" >>>

>>Actually, I weigh the same as 'saw.  I'm just a bit more vertically
>>challenged than he is.
    
    I hear ya, jeff.  If my weight was proportionate to my height, I'd have
    to be about 8'5" tall!!!!!
    
    JaKe
    

>    I hear ya, jeff.  If my weight was proportionate to my height, I'd have
>    to be about 8'5" tall!!!!!
    
    ...and that's without hair!

Mike,

That's a great p-name.   It's a great tune, which brings tears to my
eyes every time I hear it...


'Saw

    I know what you mean 'Saw.  Being a Dad, no way would I want to go thru
    that!

>    I know what you mean 'Saw.  Being a Dad, no way would I want to go thru
>    that!

Yeah, but it can fit other situations too, Mike.  And right about now
that song just reaches out and really talks to me.

Children are precious....take good care of them....8^)


'Saw

    It's a very nice song, but I wish to hell that the radio stations would
    stop playing it once an hour.  I especially hate hearing it when I
    leave work and need a pick_me_up tune, not something depressing...
    
    To top it off, a dj this morning, forget which station, called it the
    all-time best ever Clapton song.  Sorry, IMO, not even close...
    
    Hawk
    

    Well if you look at it in terms of the man baring his
    soul/thoughts/emotions thru song, I'd say you can't get any better.  
    
    Art follows life and you can tell what an artist is going thru by what
    he creates.  Emotionally speaking, its VERY touching.
    
    Mike

    >Well if you look at it in terms of the man baring his
    >soul/thoughts/emotions thru song, I'd say you can't get any better.  
    
Layla does a pretty good job of that, as does Have You Ever Loved A Woman 
(although the latter might not be a Clapton-penned tune).

Scott

    I agree, Mike.  But, at 5 o'clock rush hour, my mind needs a Layla or a
    Black Magic Woman or a Stairway To Heaven.  Heck, I might even consider
    Free Bird... :-)
    

It doesn't get anywhere near that kind of airplay down here.
In fact, the other tune(s) of his from the "Rush" soundtrack get
more airplay.

I for one like the tune.   Don't hear it enough to dislike it yet 8^)


'Saw

    
>>>    I hear ya, jeff.  If my weight was proportionate to my height, I'd have
>>>    to be about 8'5" tall!!!!!
    
>>    ...and that's without hair!
    
    Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyit, it's been without hair for
    close to 20 years now!!!!
    
    JaKe
    

       Or 'beauties' in a pinch?
                                     DennY

    I'm partial to "Pretending".  Love that nasty guitar tone he uses in
    that tune.

I've got the complete box set, so i can listen to whatever.

One of my favorites however is the Just One Night album.


I cannot pick just ONE Clapton tune, sorry.



8^)

Only in SPORTS could you have obese people talking about music in a note called
"Bungee Jumping".

j.

>Only in SPORTS could you have obese people talking about music in a note called
>"Bungee Jumping".
>
>j.


Kind of has a "Pythonesque" feel to it, dont you think?


'Saw

    Right Jeff,
    and since when is bungee jumping a sport. Kinda like Evel doing the
    truck jump=insanity
    
    MikeL
    

Last night, the local new carried a clip on bungee-jumping.

It seems that durring a jump, the cord separated.  The station
had full TV coverage of the event. (Unfortunetly, I missed the 
only time they showed the landing.)  Since there was a saftey 
air-bag installed under the jump platform, the victom only recieved
a broken ankle.  Still, I wonder what his/her reaction was.

Ironically, the day before the local paper had a front page article
on the bungee jumping and locations.  One of the topics was how safe
it was.

Scott

    
>>air-bag installed under the jump platform, the victom only recieved
>>a broken ankle.  Still, I wonder what his/her reaction was.
    
    Betcha he/she had something extra in his/her shorts after the landing,
    and they didn't smell too good, if'n ya know whut I meen.
    
    JaKe
    

In addition, the guy and his wife are seriously pissed that the bungee
jumping company wouldn't refund the $100 it cost him to jump!

I'd want my money back too!


'Saw

    	My wife and I passed through Hudson, NH, the other weekend.
    
    	They were having bungee jumping off a hot-air balloon.
    
    	My wife (a nurse) made the following comment:
    
    		"Don't these people know what that does to your
    		 brain? The brain gets knocked around inside the
    		 head, kind of like what happens when a person
    		 has a concussion."
    
    	Seems kinda stupid to me, too.
    
    	I also saw the bungee break on TV. I was relieved to know
    	that they had an airbag under the jumpers.
    
    	Scott

Hail, he's lucky he didn't charged for the extra thrill...

    I always wondered that about the brain myself.  The human brain is
    protected by a liquid buffer, but I don't see much of a difference
    between a bungee jumper's head jerk and that of a QB right before they
    take him off the field with a concussion.

    Of course, you've got just the opposite argument if you look at divers
    and gymnasts.  Their heads are a spinnin' and jerkin' every which way.

    	--dan'l

I'm not an expert, but I think there is a difference in severity between
a blow to the head (which causes the classic coup-contre-coup action in
a concussion) and the jarring which occurs in a bungee jump.

Can bungee jumping be any worse that pulling 6-9 Gs in a fighter plane?


However, I think it's an interesting question that probably could use
some study.


The human body is pretty tough when you come right down to it.  Some things
don't always work so well (like we ought to have evolved a better knee joint!)
but for the most part, it can take what we dish out....


'Saw

      The guy should feel lucky, 'cause appearently he didn't see the 911
    episode where the same thing happened to another guy, except he fell to
    the parking lot without pads.  Snapped his neck if I remember
    correctly.   He lived,  but he wasn't the same upstairs (Veggie like).
    
      This jumping looks like a rush,  but I think I would rather go hang
    gliding off a cliff 1st,  or maybe parachuting.
    
    
      Tim

Speaking of Rescue 911, the first episode they had on last night
was great, about the fire in Manhattan.

The guys from Rescue 1 carried out an incredible rope rescue, and the
men involved were cited by FDNY.  I saw the story originally on Investigative
Reports.  


Talk about a bunch of brave men.....


'Saw

    Re .71
    
    "Boo Hoo
    
     You pays your money, you takes your chances."
    
    T, are you in Mac's account?
    
    lEe

    
    A man in Toronto who worked for Adrenalin Rush Adventures was killed
    when he hooked up his ankles and took a leap from the bungee jumping
    crane.  Nobody hooked up the other end of the cord.
    
    
    

       Think that'd be classified as human error?