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Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
http://abcnews.go.com/...eo/story?id=31658380
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Re: [pBASEtobe] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
Damn it Rob.

Here is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG9tpmkGY3k
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Re: [base698] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
The guy with the red parachute receives 2 dip shit points.

Would have been more if his buddy was not OK.
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Re: [jtholmes] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
but isn't the guy with the red canopy next in line for a red bull or go pro sponsorship?! He's definitely a pro.
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Re: [pBASEtobe] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
Wow. That video editing sucked. I hope they got PAID to make themselves (as us) look like fucktards.
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Re: [pBASEtobe] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
From what I heard, this was a jump the those two had done many times before. The plan was for the high exit jumper to spiral down and pick up a dock on the lower exit jumper (CRW). For some reason the high jumper attempted to use front risers instead of toggles this time, which clearly had a different outcome.

I met Scott (low jumper) in AZ this year and he is one of the nicest people i've met in the sport. He also has like 25+ years of BASE experience or something crazy. Very fortunate outcome given the circumstances.
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Re: [pBASEtobe] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
FINALLY! Some competition for Sketchy Andy!
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Re: [pBASEtobe] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
http://www.azcentral.com/...-collision/71186034/

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Scott Frankson has almost 4,000 sky dives and BASE jumps under his belt, but one jump on a sunny day this January was miraculous even for an experienced adrenaline junkie.

Frankson, 44, and a group of friends were jumping off a cliff near Peralta Trail on the east end of the Superstition Mountains when a move they'd done countless times before went awry.

Frankson and a friend had opened their parachutes and were preforming a routine "fly by" when Frankson's friend miscalculated, and their two parachutes tangled in mid-air.

The force of the collision cut several of Frankson's lines and deflated half of his parachute. And as the two parachutes began winding around each other, there was little they could do.

Eventually the parachutes began unwinding and the two separated, but Frankson's was still only half inflated, and he began a spiraling descent toward the ground.

Frankson landed on a large boulder, breaking his carbon fiber helmet, splitting his lip and giving him several bruises. His friend suffered a bruised heel and some "minor bumps."

"I thank the Lord I walked away from that," Frankson said over the phone. "It happened on a Saturday, and I went to work the following Monday."

According to Frankson, if he had landed one foot lower, he would have run into a sheer cliff face. One foot higher and he would have landed in a group of jagged rocks.

The whole ordeal was captured by the jumpers on four separate cameras and the footage went viral.

The YouTube video has more than 5,000 views and a version of the footage on the website LiveLinks has more than 40,000.

Frankson, originally from Canada, moved to the Valley when he was 14 and now lives in Mesa. He began skydiving when he was 19 and hasn't looked back since.

"Anyone who tells you they're not scared are lying to you," Frankson said about his first several jumps, adding, "I don't know why I kept doing it."

Frankson is a carpenter with a family and said people often stereotype skydivers and BASE jumpers.

"We're not just a bunch of crazies hurling ourselves off a mountain," Frankson said, although he admits BASE jumping carries a "higher risk" than skydiving.

BASE jumping stands for "building, antenna, span and earth," the four types of places jumpers can parachute from.

In September, Frankson plans to celebrate a Phoenix BASE jumping milestone. He was the first person to jump off Camelback Mountain, and he plans to do a celebratory jump in honor of the 20th anniversary.

"We've had close to 10,000 people BASE jump off there," Frankson said. "With no fatalities."
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Re: [pBASEtobe] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
In light of recent events it looks like people need to value their lives a little more.
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Re: [nicrussell] Did I Miss This One Mentioned Here Somewhere?
nicrussell wrote:
Wow. That video editing sucked. I hope they got PAID to make themselves (as us) look like fucktards.

The youtube video uploader says 'Buy and sell the hottest viral videos.' so I guess they received at least a few dollars for it.

Or maybe someone saw an opportunity and sold it for them.