Re: [stellabella] To All Base Jumpers
stellabella:
..."If you don't want your name used (whether it's just the first or the full name), then I can create an alias."
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OK, I am Not at all telling anyone here Not to give interviews for Magazines or papers. About BASE jumping. Or Letting them Watch you jump or Show them your sites to Write about. BUT ! These kind of Posts Or Offers of Interview. Really Fucking PISS ME OFF. Mainly because I know there are idiot BASE jumpers out there that will do it.
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This is a Similar offer that was offered to me the first of this week. I was asked to give interviews and insight to BASE jumping in this local area along with some photos and some Exits from local sites. For publication in a N.W. Magazine here. So all there little readers could be enlightened to my behavior with a Parachute.
The Reporter doing the magazine piece seemed sincere and honorable. I just had to say - NO - I tried to explain while trying not to insult his profession that there is NO WAY any written article about BASE jumping will be seen in a positive light to anyone in the Public reading it.
BASE jumping will always be looked at as a Dangerous, Reckless,Daredevil-Stunt & Illegal Act to the public. It will never be seen by Society as an accepted way to Pass The Time as a self-chosen Sport.
At the same time I tried to explain and articulate in my limited vocabulary that there is - NO Way he could Possibly Write or Arrange the BASE Article - about the local BASE jump scene that would be looked at as a positive thing and Would be Negative to the Cause and it will only turn out BAD for us, as Jumpers.
(the cause) as being the rare occasions of Legal BASE Events, or Access to possible Legal Object in the future. As well as I would be a (Fucking Idiot) to naively show-off local jump sites.
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This is only my humble opinion (miss StellaBella) but I do not believe that any BASE jumper here in the States should ever Give or be Paid to give interviews of BASE jumping.
BASE jumping, Written or Videoed for reported articles should -ONLY- be given for Legal jumps sites or Legal BASE Events . It is a rarity that even (the legal Jumps) that are written about us are positive. Most are written to look as if we were all out cheating death with a Parachute with every BASE jump made.
Most freelance Reporters/Journalists (here in the states) I think, are fucking Lowlife SCUM who scratch a living to pay there bills by writing and Feeding us, Over Sensationalize Crap. The few Reporters that are Honest and Sincere will have there (submitted) work/writings. Edited, Twisted and Deformed to accommodate the Mindless Reading Market that they try to SELL . The public as a whole can barely make a mentally grasp, to Comprehend Skydiving as anything legitimate or normal as behavior. So BASE will never written to be looked upon as Good.
(just another opinion) If Any Of You do give BASE interviews to Reporters/Journalists. Even if by hiding your name. You are so fucking stupid you don't deserve to BASE jump with the rest of the BASE population and should have your Pull-Hand Cut-Off and your Head shaved as a warning to all. That you are a Fuck-up and can not be trusted. While at the same time miss Stellabella (journalist) can go fuck her self with a rusty Rail-Road Spike. You miserable Fucking Cunt.
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