Garage-jumping

[sarongsong]

Ah, youth...
April 5, 2005 (http://www.local6.com/news/4451781/detail.html)
"...Norstein said there were no signs warning about the danger..." #-o

[Musashi]

"dangerous mistake"? Wow. I knew there were stupid people out there, but this leaves me a bit stunned.

Also, what is a "mid-air attempt"?

[Captain Kidd]

Norstein said she there were no signs warning about the danger, and there was only a partial fence. There was nothing to stop someone from taking a dangerous dive.
[snip]
Norstein says she does take partial responsibility for her decision to jump, but says the garages are responsible as well.
So... it's the parking garages fault for not putting up warnings about how falling off could have an adverse effect eh?

Wow, I wish I could quit having this belief that I'm responsible for my own actions.

Anything further would probably get me banned.

[Sammy]

Building higher garages will speed up our evolution to a more intelligent species.....

[Evan]

Jumping? A 1.5 foot gap? My stride is longer than that. The real problem is drinking.

[kucharek]

I'll never understand why so many people think that sillyness is a virtue.

But it happens everywhere:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4503027.stm


At least five people remain in hospital after breaking limbs during Oxford's traditional May Day bridge jump.
...
Insp Justin Archer said: "I am extremely disappointed that so many people have ignored the advice issued by ourselves, the ambulance service and city council.

"With water levels at little more than knee-deep still people ignored warnings and jumped from the bridge, injuring themselves and others.

But as Evan said, the real problem is drinking.

[Maksutov]

"Some people are thrill seekers, which Melinda was not," Andrews [the ambulance chaser who's taken the case] said. "She wasn't thrill-seeking. She did it because she felt she needed to do it under the circumstances she faced."
HUH?

At this point words fail to adequately describe the ludicrousness of this farce. Therefore the following links will have to do

Link 1 (http://img139.echo.cx/img139/8555/idiot10mw.jpg)

Link 2 (http://img124.echo.cx/img124/9325/idiot33kc.jpg)

Link 3 (http://img124.echo.cx/img124/8757/idiot27qu.jpg)

[paulie jay]

She was only out having a good time eh? Didn't feel safe to walk back down to the street eh? So what was she doing up on the top of the car park to start with? Oooh yeah - best time on a Friday night can be had with a cask of wine on top of the ol' parking garage. Then she was "forced" to jump because the street was unsafe. Not so unsafe as to stop her from getting to the garage to start with :roll:


Love the links Maksutov!

[farmerjumperdon]

As a seeker of thrills and a participant in extreme sports, I understand the desire for a good rush. But plain and simple, . . . this is idiotic behavior. These people may or may not be idiots (lots of smart people have engaged in idiotic behavior while under the influence), but they are 100% responsible for their idiotic behavior. Would they also be holding responsible the makers of the alcohol, the bartender, the builder, etc?

[Russ]

Proof positive that you can not over estimate the power of stupidity.

The thing that I find COMPLETELY, UTTERLY AND TOTALLY STAGGERING is that there are people, according to the poll, who believe that the garage owners are responsible for preventing people from being this STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[electromagneticpulse]

How can people be that, well, idiotic.


The parking garages sit just about a foot and a half apart from each other. For some it might seem like an easy jump.

For some it might seem like an easy step. Your average stride should be about 1/2 your height so I think they're responsible and should be charged to pay for the services they used and wasting those peoples time because they had to have climbed down the gap to fall down it.

I could fall over and still not go down that gap, my dog couldn't fit down that gap. The ambulance crews should have just laughed at them not helped them, they should be included in the Darwin awards because their deaths would have upped the worlds IQ significantly as they have to be in the negatives to be able to pull that off.

Oh and mid-air jump is a jump that is already in the air normally about 1st story or above. My friend managed one of about 2 meters from third story roof, its quite amazing thing to see when you’re the “catcher” and not catching anyone.

[Nicolas]

I'm not talking about the stupidity of deliberately crossing such a deep gap here, but can someone explain me exactly where those gaps are located? Are they fenced in any way? It's hard for me to believe that such a deep gap would have no fencing at all. That seems a very dangerous situation on top of a parking lot. Considering accidents (no matter how small the gap, it is large enough for someone to fall down) I mean, not an irresponsible variant of "thrill seekers".

[sarongsong]

...can someone explain me exactly where those gaps are located?...There's a link on the right side of the original linked page with more photos, including a kid in an arm cast that survived his 6-story drop (#3 and 4).

[Nicolas]

...can someone explain me exactly where those gaps are located?...There's a link on the right side of the original linked page with more photos, including a kid in an arm cast that survived his 80' drop (#3 and 4).

Thank you. But still, from those 20 pics I couldn't see exactly where they jumped, nor which fencing was there before the falls. I could see plenty of parking lots, and some gaps, but no clear pictures of the surroundings etc. I assume there must be some sort of fencing, like to prevent cars from driving over the edge? Not that they'd fall, but it would be a not so comfortable situation :).

Any clear pictures/explanations?

[Maksutov]

This cool, trendy activity could result in a whole new approach to interpersonal activities.

http://img135.echo.cx/img135/960/getoffmyroof1nj.th.jpg (http://img135.echo.cx/my.php?image=getoffmyroof1nj.jpg)

Eventually the country will have to be renamed the UVA, the United Victims of America.

And the pledge rewritten:

I pledge allegiance to the suits
of the United Victims of America
and to the greed for which they stand,
one nation, irresponsible,
with court-ordered handouts for all.

[farmerjumperdon]

I was thinking about this more after my earlier post. It dawned on me that from that height, these folks should have almost no chance of survival. I friend of mine who fell 20' and landed on a big flat boulder got pretty seriously and permannently injured. His Dr. told him that 80% of people that fall 20' to a hard surface die.

So they must have been banging back and forth between the walls pretty good; often enough and hard enough to slow them down quite a bit. Must have been somewhat like a coin falling thru one of those see-thru mazes:

Slip-scrape-smack-scrape-crunch-scrape-biff-scrape-bash-scrape-thud.

As Plankton would say . . . "Ouch."

[Demigrog]

Norstein said she there were no signs warning about the danger, and there was only a partial fence. There was nothing to stop someone from taking a dangerous dive.
[snip]
Norstein says she does take partial responsibility for her decision to jump, but says the garages are responsible as well.
So... it's the parking garages fault for not putting up warnings about how falling off could have an adverse effect eh?

Wow, I wish I could quit having this belief that I'm responsible for my own actions.

Anything further would probably get me banned.

Since this happened in Florida, it is practically inevitable somebody would sue the garage owner. Liability in Florida can be based on percentages--the plaintiff only has to prove the garage was, say, 5% at fault to pick up a large settlement.