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Some monkey, who doesn't appear to be much of a jumper, day-blazed a well-known object in Whistler, B.C. over the weekend then publicly posted video of the jump. In the process of flaming the object, he caused $10k in property damage, attracting police attention & extra security on the object, in addition to generally making us all look like a bunch of assholes.

Video here and news report here.

Yeah, I'm sure Shane would be real proud.

Wow. That was actually hard to watch. Unfortunately we will get to see much more of this kind of shit as the sport gets easier and easier to get into.

Anyone know the story on this guy?

heard about this getting jumped last week, the first jumper who came to mind was !@#!@#, watch the video and heard !@#!@$#'s voice and recognized his sweater, then read the article and see a name, sign sealed delivered himself to the rmcp, should have at least taken a delay, not only did he damage property but skydivers everywhere are now thinking they are low pullers

1400ft and 4 seconds, there is no excuse for that.

That's a lot of vandalism to do a skydive.

why arent you using his name?

i'm not in the habbit of dropping dimes, or naming anything on the interweb to be quite honest, i mean the article has him pegged, i just don't wanna help the popo even if they are on horses and wearing red jackets

so he dayblazes it, post it, with his face in the footage, and we should be looking out for him?
no to mention the delay

The same jump done properly:

https://vimeo.com/54908062

At least the owners of the object have a positive example to consider, and hopefully they can use it to discern between this clown and the majority of respectable jumpers.

Stupid American!

what's lamer, only taking a 4 second delay or only taking a 4 second delay wearing tracking suits?

definitely the suits

Not only that, up until this morning you could punch in the name (via article) he posted it under on YouTube and his Facebook page popped up first thing. No privacy settings, looked through his pics. Same face, same jacket, total genius. Facebook page no longer appears in searches.

It amazes me how many half wits these days will jump something high profile and then immediately post to YouTube so they can get their giant and fragile egos stroked.

the pay cheque wasn't lame for for those few seconds.

i forgot that's what it's all about.

butt guys, this is gonna get HUGE!!! he jumped from a MOVING gondola! you dont see that everyday.

same here

Looks like a name was mentioned in some of the comments. Seems he's already out-of-the-closet.

I'd be curious to see how this all shakes out legally. Hopefully the thread stays updated by those in-the-know.

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WTF ??? .
Dirty Highpuller . wow all that trouble for a 4-sec.
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The woman in the video has been arrested:

http://www.cbc.ca/...#!/content/1.2535944

you know, its really a shame, the organization that owns the gondola's has allowed base jumping there before, now when anyone tries to get legit permission to jump they're gonna have to deal with the backlash from this, great judgement...... it looks like they arrested the girl that was with him and atop the mischief causing more than 5000 damage charge added an additional charge for obstruction to her docket, don't know if canadians can plead the fifth but apparently she didn't, this is just unsat, its all fun a games until someone makes us all look like assholes

Graham is Canadian, actually.

Stupid North American.

Man, what a fucking tool that guys is... No ethics, no style. Took me 2 seconds on google to find Graham Bobanski (Graham Dickinson)

my mentor would roll over in his grave and spit on this dipshit............among all the other stuff he taught me out of the goodness of his heart, it was to beware of some of the FUCKING ASSHOLES that are in this sport.......

He's burning all the local sites.

"Meanwhile, it appears a man with a similar appearance has been on a BASE jumping tour of the region, apparently posting a YouTube video of a leap off the S... C..., a 700-metre-high mountain in ..." (from an article posted today)

This is making it a lot harder for the local paragliders and hanggliders who share these locations and are actually *respectful* of private property and local laws.

Scissors, tar, feathers, and a donation fund to fix the gondola?

The S..... C..... Is legal is it not?


Definitely not defending Graham, this was an ass-clown jump for sure!

It is -- for now...

the police have a warrant for his arrest, I'm sure they can work out a donation fund to fix the gondola

dirty high puller. video makes him sound shit scared. he should be.

I am putting a $20 in an envelope right now and sending it to Whistler.
With a note: (I am trying to get it right but this is a rough draft)
"Dear Whistler, This incident was irresponsible and many in the community are not happy with it. We want to work with you to make the exit point as safe and profitable as possible for you."

Something like that?

Only one thing came to mind when I read about this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GqmjOcmJLQ

Do people change? I don't know...but this is the same type of thing this person was known for since he started jumping 2 years ago.

I would suggest getting a local to spearhead that effort so they can use it as an opportunity to start networking with local authorities.

Good luck to the Whistler "site unburning response team"

hahaha. I think that is a great idea though. I don't know any jumpers in that area..... anyone local want to spearhead that kind of effort? Seems like something like that would go a long way towards promoting our image to the public.

Let me know where to send my donation!

If your mentor was Shane, he would DO a rollover in his grave... for those who didn't check out Moron TV, it's labeled as "McConkey Reborn" -- not!

This twit is to Shane what poop is to diamonds.


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http://news.ca.msn.com/...-peak-stunt-say-rcmp
"There has been a lot of public condemnation of this act. We've actually seen some comments from the BASE jumping community who were not impressed with the fact he caused damage, because that's not what they're about normally," said LeClair.

Looks like Whistler and the RCMP get it. So that's good.

If anyone does a youcaring I'd donate.

quotability:

I think this goes down to a general problem known as "stupid newcomers who don't give give a fuck as to the simple rules which make basejumping simple" ...

It happened, it happens, it will happen.

We deal with this shit in Kiev like this:
You are banned on Kiev sites for a period(depending on just how much you've hurt the basers image)

If you are spoted on any of the sites during that time, there is a very high probability that you will recieve physical harm from somebody on the site, could have been security on the object, could have been anybody
In case you don't get it, there is also a very high tendency of gear damage, but you know, shit happens, people trip and rip stuff

somebody is gonna yoink your 20 bucks

same guy that got caught in his lines at a famous object in norcal doing aerials fresh out of a FJC. how he didnt land in a tree or the river with a fucking leg stuck in the lines is beyond me.

I'll volunteer to collect the funds!

no no no... i think i should collect the funds, cause i live the closest. $20 bucks though is pretty weak.it most likely won't even get me a beer and lunch in whistler.it should be at least $110. so that i can get a day pass. then i'll go up the mt. and set up a memorial shrine for the broken hinges, maybe shake a few hands, you know try to get the general public to start loving base jumpers again.

If its the same guy im thinking of..... he did land in a tree in norcal.

Actually mate, he did not land in a tree, he was with a group of jumpers, 5 or 6 I think, and one of them landed in a tree, the rest fled, but graham stayed to make sure the jumper was ok, helped rescue, and got busted himself just to make sure this other jumper got down safely (the other jumper was going to cut away from his canopy 100ft off the ground because the harness was cutting off his circulation causing massive pain but graham kept him calm and talked him out of it)

nice first post Fewy, do you often join forums just to clarify shit that has nothing to do with the topic of the thread?

don't be too hard, I think Fewy is grahams mum.

if by busted you mean received a ticket for being in the park after hours...sure he got "busted." all gear was stashed in the woods and recovered the next day.

I am Graham's mother.

Nah mate I've been on here for a few years, just could never be bothered posting because I'm scared of getting bullied by big scary key board warriors which scare me, but, Graham's already copped enough shit for going for a BASE jump.

I've been to countless exit points in national parks full of cigarette butts and beer cans where the fine for littering is probably twice as much as what Graham's up for, but those people who litter and don't give a shit about the environment will be more then happy to jump up and down when a door gets popped open.

Everyone on this forum is making my son out to be a bad person but I have been on jumps with graham when he has stuffs his pockets full of other jumpers rubbish on the exit point just because he cares, when he's hiked other jumpers gear up because he wants them to jump and be happy

He's mentality on having fun is different then others but he's not a bad human being

Plus some guy a few posts up said that my son landed in a tree of a nor cal bridge, I just don't want people thinking I'm breeding bad canopy pilots

Well, just make sure he'll get a nice big spank as soon as he's home...
That one was a stupid one...

i agree with fewy, ive jumped with graham before. One of the nicest guys ive met. Not saying i agree with what he did or it was right but anyone talking all this shit clearly hasn't spent any time around him.

I don't know the guy at all, I'm sure he is a super nice guy. But that is completely independent of the damage he did to the sport. He can save a bus full of nuns and he doesn't get karma tokens to redeem himself from being a dumbass.

Whether or not he hucks granny's across the street he still made a dumbass call and brought the public's perception of the sport down a peg.

Well, that and you're his brother. That might make you a little less than objective on this one, Evan.

haha good stuff

The actions of the jumper seem very poorly planned/executed but it is alarming the threats of violence that have been given over this thread. Maybe some of you might want to think about editing your posts, because I am pretty sure there have been some felonies committed on this thread by some. Communicating terroristic threats is not cool at all, from a spiritual standpoint or a legal standpoint.

You really make BASE jumpers look terrible, like violent criminals. much MUCH more bad to expose the public to than the jumper who dayblazed the gondola and caused some minor property damage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc7U6WBk0ho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG5SAw1n0c

I just read the thread again and all I could find threat wise was, Scissors, tar, feather and smack his bum, so you are high or just another family member?
Redaktor was saying what they do in the Ukraine not a personal threat.
felonies committed?

http://jp3.r0tt.com/...eca-cb6875e00003.jpg

] If I knew that nobody felt the same way that I felt then I would never come back to this forum.

Anyway just my perspective that it seemed to be kind of irrational to hold the viewgreat that he was bad for BASE jumping's Reputation: while simultaneously being a BASE jumper threatening violence to another human being!

Peace guys

OMG
LOL

just like a highly impressionable 13 year old girl.

Pull up those panties and try to be the kind of BASE jumper who is not afraid to jump at night while it's snowing and freefall from below 300ft into an LZ that's not wide open.

Good to see you replaced the picture with one that doesn't contain a grammar error

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y

posting from phone hard. i do it right now.

It still made me laugh when I first opened it

I understand the brother and mother defending this guy, but the fact is, he let his ego get way ahead of the sport which he says he loves but he intentionally made 2 really stupid mistakes which always cost the BASE community problems. First, he vandalized property to a significant extent to make a jump. Read your BASE cards folks, we try to take only memories and leave only footprints.
Second, and this is a huge problem today, he posted it on You Tube. An illegal jump where it shows damage and his face. You gotta wonder if you want this guy on your load. That's when ego rises above loyalty to friends, the sport, or his own good judgement. If I were his brother and mother, I'd try to understand more about this character flaw. If he does not have a BASE number yet, I will not accept this jump as a qualifying jump since it was executed like a dumb amateur with no thought about his fellow jumpers.
Rick Harrison
USBA Director
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Nothing irrational here, kid.

Number one, if you think the hypothetical scenarios imagined on this thread constitute violence, I suggest you search "Syrian execution videos" so you will maybe kinda sorta have an effing clue what violence is.

Second, ass clown deserves to get his ass tarred and feathered, and threatening to do so represents exponentially less sin, misconduct, bad manners and ugly style than wantonly and knowingly causing thousands of dollars worth of damage to someone else's property so he could do 4 seconds from 1400 wide open feet and then giggle like a 6-year-old girl all the way down.

Third, the $10,000 in "minor damage" ass clown did to Whistler's property far outweighs anything anyone suggested be done to him, but guess what, dude: In the end nobody will do anything to ass clown because picking a fight with poop is silly.

So I guess you could say no, nobody feels the way you feel.

Don't the let door hit you in the *** on the way out.

Oh wait, is that a threat of violence?


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Why is it whenever the BASE community reads a media misrepresentation of an accident or fatality, the first thing that people shout is, "Errrmerrrgerrrd! They are so wrong; nothing they say is right!!! Rabble, rabble, rabble!!"?

Now when the same media outlets that get everything wrong and nothing right report something like this, it suddenly becomes, "Rabble, rabble, where's my pitchfork, tar and feather, fuck this guy, loud noises on the Internets!!!!!!".

Why would we believe them the second time and not the first? Media by and large reports inflammatory horseshit. This video was made public by someone other than Graham (no point in explaining details) and the door operated fine after the jump.

Don't believe everything you hear and try not being such inflammatory douchebags. People do dumb shit sometimes. There is no one on this board that hasn't made a mistake.

Honestly, I would be stoked if one person that blabs about tar and feather actually sacked up and gave it a go sometime. All talk, all the time... Between that and jumpers actively cooperating with authorities, this little episode has brought out some serious douchebaggery in the online BASE community.

The way the post-jump was handled was dumb, but the reaction here completely eclipses it. Go jump more and bitch less. One day, maybe you will realize that fighting over rumors and confusion is really just a giant waste of time.

Fuck you. You fucking hypocrite!!!

People take things way too seriously... like when I mentioned tarring and feathering. Why would I actually tar and feather someone just for that? If he really did damage the gondola door to day-blaze a super-beautiful object that could easily be gotten away with, cause an increase in awareness, negative press, and additional security for jumpers in the area, and post the video of himself to highly public/visible channels then ya, that's not what we want in the BASE community. Then again, I've made some pretty stupid mistakes and have gotten hurt before because of them and had others where I was lucky the object didn't get burned/heat.

"rabble rabbling" on the internet can make waves that reach that person. We are all idiots at some point. It's only if we have a pattern of being an idiot that also affects those around us negatively that something should be done. There's no way I or most anyone on here can objectively say that they are in a position to judge what he's done (in context with his past choices and how he reacted to this). It's up to the locals and people (that aren't his family and buddies) with first/second-hand information to figure it out.

But from what I've seen posted so far it seems like dayblazing ass-clown is very accurate to that video and incident.

edit to add: the OG tar and feather incident occurred, to my knowledge, after the guy dayblazed/burned multiple sensitive objects, didn't listen to anyone trying to reach him about toning it down, gave his footage to the news, and caused a crane worker to lose his job. That is very different from this and if the guy turned out to really be a douche-canoe and kept dayblazing sensitive objects and ignoring locals' concerns then, yes, something more than an informative conversation would be in order, but that's pretty far off and I doubt someone would be as stupid as to antagonize the BASE community to that extent.

I'd be interested in the details, seeing as it was first posted publicly to his own YouTube account.

I have a guess on what the story is... Plausible deniabilty or stupidity, either way it got from his helmet cam to the Internet...

You're missing my dab-fueled original stonedness point though. Yeah you seem like a great guy judging your posts I've read - that you wouldnt actually tar and feather somebody. But a threat is a threat legally - thats how threats of violence are taken.

The fact that you're committing crimes on a thread ABOUT A GUY THAT GOT PERSECUTED BASED ON INTERNET CONTENT screams bad judgement.

I'm usually the guy telling my friends its not a good idea. I think I'm one of the good ones I wasnt trying to say this jump was no big deal come on guys

he still took a slider off delay on a 1400 ft wide open object, this is the biggest reason i see to tar and feather anyone, he abused altitude, what happens when that altitude grows up and abuses others? basically "ass-clown" is now kinda the justin beiber of the base community, came on scene all young and precious now he's in trouble with the law (although if you're gonna be pursued by cops i want them dressed in red riding pants on horses) and all the precious gondola riding young girls are going to jail showing their support as gralievers. I just can't wait for his comeback tour performing his old classics

Rather have the tar and feathers than be called out by the keeper of the BASE bible

Correction: The keeper of the keeper of the BASE Bible!

The cable car operated fine afterwords? Guess that non-biased whatsoever statement from you makes up for the 10000 dollar costs of repairing/replacing the damaged lock-systems on the car then

Nobody here is claiming to be saints, but I think a lot of people here don't run around and damage other peoples stuff and property...

And better having "serious douchebaggery (imho calling out a douchebag)" online, than out there in the real world -recent example being in a whistler gondola

[You gotta wonder if you want this guy on your load.]

Nah, I think I'm sure on this one.

BTW, Rick and Joy, you guys rock!

Maybe you should've worried about raising your boy to have respect for other peoples property an the sport, instead of teaching him to fly a parachute.

I've told plenty of mamas that their "good son" is an idiot. And I'm telling you too.

That's like cutting a section of rail and fencing out just jump from the Perrine...

And one more thing...
I'd jump too if I was alone in that thing with that girls annoying sounds she kept making...

...just saying. Fake is annoying, genuine is sexy!

Right on, she did sound a bit like she was acting for the camera. I've been doing this a long time and I know we do break locks from time to time, but usually replace them but from the looks of that door all ajar at the bottom, it was damaged and we all pay the price for the reputation that many people get about BASE jumpers. OK to steal altitude since we give it right back, but lasting damage like that and then to allow it to go on You Tube is way too much immature ego for me. I must be getting old.
Rick H
D 3736
BASE 38
Hell, I guess I am getting old.

You're either the oldest kid I know or the youngest old guy. Maybe both.

Thanks for that Tom. We may come out to Perrine this summer just for some easy ones. I'll let you know. It's been awhile.
Rick

All this crap rising to the top to try to defend this guy.

Am I the only who is of the frame of mind that if anyone knows I did an illegal jump then I fucked up? Ain't nothing more satisfying than slipping away before anyone knows you're there. Where our sport is right now "no press is bad press" does not apply. This entire plan completely precluded any chance of secrecy. Dumb plan, dumb decision to go through with it. I hate to be all "duty and honor" about it, but we kinda have to nut up and recognize that we're stewards of our sport's reputation. If we give some people an inch, they'll take a yard. This guy doesn't get it. Have a fucking blast, go balls to the wall.

There is some contention as to whether or not the doors worked afterwards. It really makes no difference. If they had to pause operation, take a look at it, etc, than this yahoo was way more destructive and disruptive than he should have been.

Someone mentioned he didn't post the video. He took the video, where it ends up is his responsibility. If he gave it to some dude who posted it (with or without his knowledge) he should man up and accept fault for not being careful enough with the footage. Through normal channels, almost everything leaks sooner or later, but the fact that it was posted so quickly after a high profile jump means this guy was probably an idiot about it.

I applaud this guy for having a good time. But he needs to pull his head out of his ass. If we were at Moab, he seems like the type of guy that would be a blast to jump with. But based on what I've seen here, I'd never climb something illegal with guy.

Doing the illegal shit responsibly is tougher and more fun, IMHO. Do it right or get the fuck out of here. And def don't take you GoPro with you so you can stroke yourself to how cool you think you are later.

FWIW, Graham still has video posted of some exits out West that locals have explicitly asked others not to post video about...

If he was remorseful at all, out of respect to other jumpers active in the area, you would expect he would take down the video of other technically-legal-but-sensitive objects that locals are trying to keep low key...

I read a news story that implied the girlfriend was likely to go to prison if Graham didn't come forward.

Can anyone confirm or deny that?

http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/gondola-jumper-accomplice-misses-court-hearing/Content?oid=2550018

"In fact, the only thing they weren't found guilty of was the one thing they were most guilty of, being dumb stupid fucks"

People burning objects has been a big problem with BASE since it started. To stop it, basic ethics came about which were really easy to follow. Number 1: don't burn a site.

Since you can't yank somebody's card or kick the off of the DZ, the only enforcement has always come from within the community. So if you see other jumpers getting pissed and turning their backs on you, it is only because it is the only punishment possible. Sure, a couple of people got punched in the mouth over the years, but the punishment has always been some form of banishment.

I know of some really great spots that were burned by people who got a little greedy.

Nobody talks about it, but dying is one of the worst things for an object. So stop dying.

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Awesome! No damage to the car! Now does this make them just an ass or just a clown since an ass-clown apparently is someone who damages property AND publicizes the jump, essentially rubbing it in the owners face, right?

Respect

http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/.../Content?oid=2564951