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Quoted: To the extent that it doesn't materially interfere with the ability for others to enjoy the park, I have no problem with it. However, places like canyon, proper, and El Cap, etc, it would just be never ending stream of parachutes, so if it were ever allowed, it would need to be regulated. Heavily. Cuz freedom is for tards. |
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Quoted: Dude we don’t support Authoritarian regimes here. go back under whatever rock you crawled out of. Ah! So we support letting his body rot where it falls, assuming something went wrong in the first place? Works for me! Or, do we support the compromise here, where the taxpayer foots the bill for the rescue of the illegal act? The act that the authoritarian government tells the individual they cannot do on public land? You know, the public land the government charges you to access? It's GD, so have to keep my story straight and all  |
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Quoted: Ah! So we support letting his body rot where it falls, assuming something went wrong in the first place? Works for me! Or, do we support the compromise here, where the taxpayer foots the bill for the rescue of the illegal act? The act that the authoritarian government tells the individual they cannot do on public land? You know, the public land the government charges you to access? It's GD, so have to keep my story straight and all  The deceased jumpers should at least get a proper burial. |
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Quoted: Ah! So we support letting his body rot where it falls, assuming something went wrong in the first place? Works for me! Or, do we support the compromise here, where the taxpayer foots the bill for the rescue of the illegal act? The act that the authoritarian government tells the individual they cannot do on public land? You know, the public land the government charges you to access? It's GD, so have to keep my story straight and all Who foots the bill for all the unemployed and uninsured fatasses dying of the beetus? Who foots the bill for responding to car accidents caused by texting drivers? Police responses to gun related crimes? No victim. No crime. Zero reason that jump should be illegal. If SAR is required - follow the same billing procedures they would for any other activity. Also.... FYI... guys who do extreme sports... make up most real SAR teams. I'm not talking the retired volunteers who walk the woods in missing persons searches (who are valuable, not putting that down), I'm talking the high angle and technical rescue teams. And most SAR teams... spend more time rescuing weekend warriors who get hurt doing moderate activities or have a medical emergency due to being completely out of shape than they do pulling BASE jumpers out of anywhere. Freedom scary yo. |
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Quoted: +1, I want to see tarred & feathered base jumper outcasts now. Kharn Contact Tom A. up in Twin Falls, I'm sure he'll share it with you if you ask nicely. I actually know the tarred and featheree John V. He used to live at the DZ in Moss Point for awhile and I'd actually let him pack for me. We were there for his final scene in Mississippi when he lost it. Built a firewood fort around the firepit, covered himself in ash, and threatened to kill the DZO with a sword. When the Sheriff's office showed up he ran across the LZ and went over the airport fence. I felt bad for the deputy's that had to go get him. That was the thickest brambles and stickers I had ever seen in my life. |
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Quoted: The problem is even if they die, someone has to go out and recover the body. This could require multiple people having to hike in and haul their dumb ass out. If they don't die, it's a rescue operation that potentially puts other lives at risk. If he jumps off a sheer face, and chute doesn't open, doesn't he end up at the bottom anyway? 
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Quoted: Who really cares? If he crashes and kills himself it’s his ass, not mine. Do we really need the fun police patrolling our daily lives? No shit. The whole reason we have millennials that are whiney cunts, is because we interfered with natural selection. Let them take baths with a plugged in toaster, put plastic bags over their heads, and jump off whatever the hell they want. Darwin wasn't wrong. |
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Quoted: To the extent that it doesn't materially interfere with the ability for others to enjoy the park, I have no problem with it. However, places like canyon, proper, and El Cap, etc, it would just be never ending stream of parachutes, so if it were ever allowed, it would need to be regulated. Heavily. I've done (and do) recoveries of bodies in remote areas. It's not an easy task. I've got zero issue with him jumping. I just don't want to be the one to scrape him off the rocks when he splats. |
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Evading the ticket is a rush too...... Adds to the fun! I spent two seasons of climbing every day in Yosemite. I can see both the jumpers point and the SAR guys not wanting to have to scrap brains out of the rocks. In the Yose, the SAR guys were climbers too / first. I say let them jump.... |
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Quoted: If he crashes and kills himself, or gets hurt, or gets stuck up a tree, who do you think pays for the recovery and any lawsuits? The taxpayer Quoted: Quoted: Who really cares? If he crashes and kills himself it's his ass, not mine. Do we really need the fun police patrolling our daily lives? If he crashes and kills himself, or gets hurt, or gets stuck up a tree, who do you think pays for the recovery and any lawsuits? The taxpayer No rescue, no recovery. Buzzards gotta eat too. |
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Quoted: Did you actually use the word literally? Quoted: Quoted: How many interactions do you have with base jumpers? All of the people I know in the base community are the most respectful of outdoor locations. If you fuck things up within the base world, you will be shunned. Or literally tarred and feathered Did you actually use the word literally? Yes. It has happened. It wasn’t verbal hyperbole |
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No one has posted one of Miller's more famous base jumps, at least here in Utah? Several years ago, he and a buddy, Hartman Rector III jumped off the top of the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. They were later caught and plead out with a fine. Probably well worth the money.  Church Office Base Jump Here's one more from Notch Peak in the Western Utah desert. 2200 foot cliff face.  HD Utah Desert Wingsuit Basejumps I know the doctor who was a county medical examiner there for a while. He had a pair of base jumpers jump off it about 12 years ago. Both in wing suits. One of their chutes didn't open. It's rough country out there. Took 9 days to find his body and then the Sheriff's Jeep Posse brought him in for medical exam and death certificate. Doc said he'd have been surprised if there was any bone in his body that wasn't broken. |
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Quoted: I liked how they tried to get people worked up about it by talking about how the condors were in the general vicinity. I'm half surprised that they didn't say a condor seeing a weird flying man thing might give it PTSD or something. It worked, see 2 posts above your post! |
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