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Re: [leroydb] Bugger
"What building, Officer? We were on a cross country night paragliding flight and we ran out of lift and just had to land here!" Kids today have no imagination . . .
NickD
Re: [Rover] Bugger
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The men, both 27 and from Annandale and St Helens Park, have been charged with jumping from a building.
Didn't realize there was a law explicitly forbidding jumping from buildings. How strange... Sounds pretty targeted. I must be missing some history there
Re: [NickDG] Bugger
NickDG wrote:
"What building, Officer? We were on a cross country night paragliding flight and we ran out of lift and just had to land here!"
Kids today have no imagination . . .
NickD
, but hey...good cover story..great, ........ yeah "kids" today is not like they used to be... like........yesterday
Re: [stevenm] Bugger
stevenm wrote:
In reply to:
The men, both 27 and from Annandale and St Helens Park, have been charged with jumping from a building.
Didn't realize there was a law explicitly forbidding jumping from buildings. How strange... Sounds pretty targeted. I must be missing some history there
This is what the jumpers were charged with.
Re: [stevenm] Bugger
Just found another article about the same incident.... Two men who BASE-jumped illegally from a central Sydney building literally fell into the hands of police.
And while they flew like birds on the way down, one of the men was too weighed down by his parachute to flee surprised officers on the street below.
Police officers were on a regular patrol of George Street about 3.10am (AEST) Wednesday when the two men floated to earth from a balcony nearly 70 storeys up on the World Square building on the corner of Liverpool and George streets.
One of the men landed directly in front of the police car and was quickly arrested.
His friend landed on the footpath and ran off down Liverpool Street, still strapped into his parachute.
The load made it easy for officers to catch up to him, said Superintendent Mark Murdoch.
"He picked it (the parachute) up holus-bolus and hit the road," Supt Murdoch told reporters.
"That may have been of benefit to police catching him - given he was carrying a fair bit of gear and the cops were running."
A 26-year-old Annandale man and a 27-year-old St Helens Park man were later charged with risking the safety of others by abseiling, jumping or parachuting from a building or other structure.
Supt Murdoch said it was a fairly "unexpected" arrest for police.
"I think they accepted with good grace that they had literally fallen into the hands of the law," he later told Macquarie Radio.
President of the Australian BASE Association Gary Cunningham said the men were just unlucky to land where they did.
"Obviously they did the jump OK. They just landed with the wrong people around," Mr Cunningham said.
"I'm sure they wouldn't have jumped if they saw (the police car) from up there, but at what point did it come into view I don't know. That would have been quite funny."
He said similar illegal jumps may be happening all across Australia every night, because there was no legal jumping venue in Australia.
"They should have got permission first to do it, but because there's nowhere really in Australia where we are given permission to jump, people will jump wherever they can," said Mr Cunningham, who spoke to one of the jumpers earlier Wednesday.
"We mainly try to jump away from the public - off piste - but it's hard to say how often people jump off buildings because the people that do that don't usually talk about it.
"We need an area where we can do our sport."
Mr Cunningham, who declined to identify the men, said they would have looked for the right height, a clean exit point and a good landing area when they selected the World Square complex to jump from.
Supt Murdoch said while the men might have thought jumping in the middle of the night might have been safe, there were still a lot of people around at 3am and they were lucky not to have hurt themselves or anyone else.
He said the two men, both experienced BASE jumpers, had buzzed several intercoms at the Meriton apartments in the building before being let in by a stranger and making their way to a balcony near the top.
They then jumped with a video camera strapped to their helmet to film the extreme stunt, he said.
Both men have been bailed to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on May 22.
BASE jumping - an acronym for building, antenna, span or earth - involves using a parachute to jump from fixed objects.
At least six Australians have died in BASE-jumping accidents around the world in the past four years.
Re: [Tyrion] Bugger
Damn dude, an actual anti-base law. Good luck to you; hope you beat it. I am not a laywer or anything, but can you argue that you took steps to not risk the safety of others? Would that work over there?