Not Your Daddy’s Bungee Jumping

 

1. Yes, yes it is. I’m not ready/willing to be hurled by a trebuchet, but I’m sure it’s quite the adrenaline rush.

   Posted by DaToad       03/21/2007  at  11:05 AM  



2. <font face="trebuchet ms,geneva"><font size="4">It was designed to keep fearless stupid people off the highways. Then the added bonus is better of getting them out early before they contribute to the gene pool. Gives the meaning of suicide bomber a different take.</font></font>

   Posted by accal       03/21/2007  at  01:13 PM  



3. Great method for public executions if you substitute a field of boulders for the net.

   Posted by Jeremy       03/21/2007  at  08:04 PM  



4. Great method for public executions if you substitute a field of boulders for the net.

   I’d go with punji stakes myself.

   Posted by DaToad       03/21/2007  at  08:29 PM  



5. Ahh, so, the Victorious and Mighty Chinese Peoples’ Space Program is making a glorious Long March towards our manifest destiny of colonization of the Moon, long before the Imperialist Lackey Capitalist Running Dogs of Amerika can steal our rightful property, granted to us by the Eternal Guiding Light and Great Father, Chairman Mao. (Peace Be Upon Him!)

   Posted by Rat Patrol       03/22/2007  at  07:29 AM  



6. A number of years back during my Navy days in Phuket, Thailand they had a version of the bungee adventure that is even worse than this.

   Instead of lifting the leaper up in a crane they’d sit him or her in a sling that was latched to the ground. The bungee was hooked to the top of the crane and when the projectile was secure in his or her sling they’d raise the crane.

   When the crane reached the proper height they’d do the whole dramatizing the launch bit and then they’d release the latch launching the ballistic human skyward.

   Last I new it got stopped when they raised the crane too high on a Japanese guy and tensioned the bungee so much that he slammed into the top of the crane and knocked the bungee off and then dropped like a stone to the concrete parking lot below (they didn’t use nets). We were never told if he died upon impacting the top of the crane or at the end of his return to earth.

   Sproing! Crunch!! Splat!!! Ouch.

   Posted by babylonandon       03/23/2007  at  06:13 PM  

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