bungee jump fail

OUCH!!

And THIS is why I have no desire to bungee jump. Can you imagine what she was thinking?

As George Carlin said, CHARGE HER DOUBLE! Once for goin' down, and again for goin' the rest of the way down! She got twice the excitement, she should pay twice the price! :laugh:

Good to know she wasn't seriously hurt.

Pfft... I could do that.

I still think this is scarier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrCnRdeKQnk&feature=related

And THIS is why I have no desire to bungee jump. Can you imagine what she was thinking?

^ Yeah that...

I still think this is scarier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrCnRdeKQnk&feature=related

yeah but that chick was drunk in public therefore STUPID and its her own FAULT.
This bungee girl was innocent and presumably followed instructions and was the victim of faulty equipment.
I don't feel sorry for the drunk girl. She is to blame.

Agreed.

I don't know if this was the case here or not, so I won't assume it was... More women than men are injured or killed every year in bungee jumping 'fails'...because they lie about their weight!
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Interesting. If I was running a bungee jump operation I'd buy a good scale to avoid lawsuits. The rope looked kinda frayed to me.
One more reason to never go bungee jumping. Not a good enough cause to risk my life.

I love how no one really does anything for a while...or at least it seems like it. How can you NOT be freaking out after seeing that happen to your friend??

I sure wouldn't want to be the next one in line!

:laugh: :laugh: The friend she had with her who was going to go next and saw that..."Oh **** no!!!!"

Yeah, and not long ago 11 people here in New Zealand died in a hot air balloon crash. It makes me feel like I don't really want to go and have any wild adventures. I wanted to go white water rafting this summer, and I might give it a miss!

I will never ever bungee jump for that reason right there!

I will, however, jump out of an airplane and hope the parachute opens up..

same exact with me. people don't understand my logic but there's a difference and i feel safer skydiving.

Most people are drunk in public at some point in the week

I just want to say:

Speak for yourself and your group of friends.

Nobody *I* know tends to be drunk in public at some point in the week. I have not been drunk in at least 5 years and then it was only a few drinks in my own home.

No, "most people" are not drunk in public at some point in the week.

I love bungee jumping, and now will likely make a side trip to jump that same bridge. Macau tower was awesome!

Imagine that, you've had a bit to drink, then you fall, you're underneath the train hurt and confused, and you know it's going to slowly take off at any minute, and you know you're about to die. But no, no sympathy, stupid tart, it's yer own fault.
Luckily she escaped too, but yeesh don't be so damn judgmental, or are you inciting that anything bad that happens to you in public when drunk is your own fault and you completely deserve it?
Trip over and break a leg? drunk deserve it. Get hit by a car? drunk deserve it. Raped? drunk deserve it. Fall under a train and nearly die? Drunk, you totally deserve it for daring to drink a little too much and make a mistake.

I find your line of reasoning hard to follow and am wondering if this is a sober post.
Stoopid should hurt, and often does. However; it often hurts those who did not make the decision to overindulge more often than it does those who did. Ask anyone who has worked in Emergency Services.

Basically, the point was, whether you think it's her fault she fell under the train because she was drunk is a different matter, saying you have no sympathy and implying they deserve it because they'd had to much to drink is what I had the problem with. As I said earlier, most people in their lives have gotten a bit too drunk and stumbled, it was very unlucky this happened as she got off the train and rolled underneath it. That must have so bloody terrifying, and I won't be surprised if she's scarred for life. Yeah she was drunk, does this mean all drunk people deserve to have something horrible happen to them? Getting drunk every now and then doesn't make you "stupid", she hadn't put herself in a particularly dangerous situation, she was just getting off a train, stumbled and rolled under it. The chances of that happening are tiny, even when drunk! It was a freak accident, and it must have been a horrible experience, and being so harsh and judgmental and brushing it off with the attitude of "she was drunk, she deserved it, no sympathy" is what I had the problem with.