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Can anyone think of any legal ramifications if one were to jump from their own apartment balcony?

May I come over and make you dinner?

lol!

i do belive that you could be charged for disturbing the peace,other than that i cand find.

A DK guy once went on a trip whith some top Aussie Jumpers,they hired a room in a hotel jumped it in 3 days(47 jumps total i think)before they were kicked out,becourse they were too noisy.
Its on a Aussie video out there,i know one of the jumpers drop by here some times.

Not in America, but . . .

Steve, BASE 344, is an American living in Panama in 1994. His apartment is on the 19th floor and he makes many jumps from his balcony, and many more around the city. The police never bothered him, but they did like to watch.

Nick
BASE 194

ha ha nice work

I remember Steve. Nice guy. I think he's a cop in OR now and he has since given up the "night life"

do you still have coontact with him... i am looking for possible night life in OR

No,I don't.he gave it up years ago. You might ty to get a old of some one at SDO. Thats where he used to skydive.

Didn't Jeb once rent a high-rise condo for about a month?

You are refering to Steve Cooper known as "Coops". I don't believe he is BASE jumping much anymore but he is with the police force in Salem. He does like to do stuff from time to time. I doubt he is interested in any "night stuff" though.

As for the earlier story by Stefan - yes it was a small group of us (organised by Dwain) jumping a hotel in Oz and landing on the beach. It was a hilarious time taunting the security guard whom became quite frustrated with us having to charge down the beach after us each time we landed into the dark. We pushed our luck and only ceased operations after one more jump when the police staked the building out with the local TV Station. Dwains words when the cops arrived 'Well now its getting interesting!" WE used the element of surprise to time our exits. It can actaully work to your advantage to have security around if they are highly visible and fat. We all got away with it.

We also pondered the same question - what would we be charged with had we been caught.

Regards
Slim

I can only assume that 'The Man' would try to charge you with "public endangerment" if you jumped from your own balcony. I'm not really sure what that is, but I hear about BASE jumpers getting charged with it a lot. It always makes it sound like we're drunk degenerants leaping out over a crowd of nuns and babies or something!

837

I thought the common charge was Reckless Endangerment - if so, it's easily argued in court that base jumping is not reckless. Reckless means behavior or demeanor which evidences a lack of concern for consequences or acting in a manner that evidences absent due consideration of risks. Another definition is: A person commits the crime of reckless endangerment if the person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person. - So it's not illegal if it only affects yourself.

I know I give all the risks involved due consideration - otherwise I wouldn't jump! If base jumpers were recklass, there would be a lot less of us, and there would be many more cases of property damage and worse. Doesn't mean that it will slow down the cops from charging you with that crime - it just means it's a stupid charge.

In a City Where Nobody’s Been Popped, Lately . . .

“Getting arrested for BASE jumping is liner to your location and proportional to what’s going-on there. Sometimes, if the heats off, everybody shakes their heads and laughs and you walk with a hand slap, unless they see you again.”

That’s something I wrote 14 years ago, but that was before the war . . .

Nick D
BASE 194

 Thanks for the all insight. As a long time climber who is about to start the journey to base, I was just curious. Living 23 floors up definetely fuels my urge to want to pursue base. But on the other hand, every time I step up to the railing and look down it scares the hell out of me. Maybe it gives me a just a hint of what it must feel like every time you step to the edge of an object.

p.s. mi casa es su casa

 
p.s. mi casa es su casa
hookitt was up to make dinner
Maby it should be a potluck?
~J

> ...every time I step up to the railing and look down it scares the hell out of me
Welcome in the club, my friend!!!!! Every time we step up to the exit point and look down, there is this feeling of scare that pops up all of a sudden.
Well, it is a good thing that when you are EXACTLY on exit ready to jump you are not any more scared but rather you are concentrated and focused on what you are about to do. Still, we feel scared few moments BEFORE getting to the exit, or rather while we are donning our rig, or rather while we are approaching the exit.
Moral of the story: sooner or later during the activity that leads to jump a fixed object, it will visit you this intense feeling of scare!!!!
Just my 0.02€
P.S.: Where do you live, my friend? Could you possibly invite me to have a tea at your home? Perhaps reaching your home by lift, perhaps leaving your home WITHOUT using the lift...?!?!?!?

That happens to me too

Being on something tall used to not scare me. Now, thinking about base, I look at things in a new light. From a climbers perspective it would have been a nice view. period. Now I can't help but imagine the possibilities.

Superstitions unfortunately complicate matters. A friend's condo apartment is actually 3 floors lower than the numbers indicate.

Not only is the 13th floor missing because of a silly Western superstition, we're in a large multicultural Canadian city, so the 4th and 14th are missing too because of a silly Chinese superstition. (The digit 4 is unlucky, I hear.)

I believe you can also be dinged for flying over a built-up area without the necessary paperwork.

Michael