VIDEO: Bungee Cord Snaps; Woman Survives 365-Foot Plunge

[accadacca]

Oh hell NO! :eek2: :facepalm1:

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by Mark Memmott (http://www.npr.org/people/104192887/mark-memmott)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6F-ZtMIBxE&feature=player_embedded (http://www.npr.org/people/104192887/mark-memmott)

The Associated Press/YouTube

Don't press play if you're don't like heights and scary thrills. But rest assured, 22-year-old Australian Erin Langworthy survived to tell the tale (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=144879747) after her bungee cord broke on New Year's Eve during a jump from a bridge over the Zambezi River on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

She hit the water 365-feet below. Fortunately, it appears, the cord slowed her descent before it snapped. Still, Langworthy broke her collarbone

[KapitanSparrow]

Brave, tough and lucky young woman :haha:

[Iceaxe]

What do you expect bungie jumping in a third world country?

They spend most of there money decorating their mud huts and eating, which doesn't leave a lot let over for tourist safety.

:cool2:

[KapitanSparrow]

What do you expect bungie jumping in a third world country?

They spend most of there money decorating their mud huts and eating, which doesn't leave a lot let over for tourist safety.

:cool2:

Ain't that a bit racialist? :haha:

[archbishop]

In this is why I don't jump off perfectly good bridges, or out of perfectly good airplanes.
But I would like to some day hang glide and or ride in a hot air balloon.

[canyonphile]

Ain't that a bit racialist? :haha:

Probably :haha:. And since I :lol8: when I read it, I guess we know what that means...

BTW, welcome back, KapitanS - I had been wondering what had happened to you.

[KapitanSparrow]

Thanks :haha:

I is back in my old hood now with my mate dangerous Dave and da rest of the crew. Brooklyn be the phattest, niggaz know da status! :roflol:

[Iceaxe]

http://i.minus.com/jjD6UXBcLybIU.jpg (http://min.us/mbq7b4e9k2#1o)

[KapitanSparrow]

In many ways these kids are much happier than our kids, than us. No Prozac, no dieting, no worries about being popular, about getting a good education, about work, parking, parking tickets, bank fees, economy, about getting the latest iPhone. And they got rhythm! Makes me wanna be African.