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Here is the link for BFL on Blincmagazine.com for those of you who are not on the Basejumper only facebook page.
We do not release the name on here for 2 weeks until after the fatality even if the media already releases the name.

http://www.blincmagazine.com/...ex.php?title=bfl-347

If you are a base jumper and do not know about the BFL on facebook here is a link to the page.

https://www.facebook.com/...ps/BASEFatalityList/

As normal we release all details (Name/picture) we have been given here as soon as we get them from first hand accounts.

So.......
He’s reported as being 25 years old, how did he get to be 25?

Uhhh, he didn't start skydiving until he was 25?

Yes but he had joined the French foreign legion so this wasn’t the first really stupid thing he had done.
Surely .....
I’m not surprised an aff student got to jump Brento with a vector micron but wearing a brand new aura 3 ?????

This can’t have Been a padawan learner first attempt at stupid, more like a fucking grand master Jedi fucking 10th dan black belt kinda fucking stupid.

if an AFF gets to jump a Micron, why wouldn’t he get an Aura ?

Not being a jerk here, the guys is dead and that sucks of course, but I feel like this case doesn't even deserve a BFL#. I mean if I decide to commit suicide tomorrow and jump off a bridge, and while at it, will wear a brand new Aura to go out "in style" - do I get my #?

^Adding 30 sec later. Actually, I see the point - it is BASE-related and there is a learning point, so probably should have a number for a quick reference

I heard in the past some Brento locals confiscated gear at the top in one or two cases of truly exceptional stupidity. Times change and all, but I'm guessing this guy waited around until everyone else had gone before opening hs stash bag.

Apparently that's what he did, which to me indicates that he knew what he was was doing was profoundly stupid, selfish and dangerous and decided to fly under the radar, right into the reapers arms.

He did indeed hide and go between the load before us and our load. This is likely because several weeks earlier he tried this same stunt in Lauterbrunnen, asking around for people to show him exits and people figured out what was going on posted in several forums about the dude imploring people not to show him any exits. He figured out nobody would help him but he was tenacious enough to wait and find an exit he could follow people to in hiding.

Play silly games and you win silly prizes. Simples.