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- From: ehsnet!f15.n233.z1.fidonet.org!SKYDIVE (SKYDIVE)
- Subject: Bungee ban/ sport questio
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:28:08 GMT
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- Reply-to: Jody.Coffey@p0.f1.n3607.z1.fidonet.org (Jody Coffey)
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- -> From romulus!ra.oc.com!news
- -> From: romulus!everest.Stanford.EDU!eap (Eric Perozziello)
- -> To: ehsnet!skydive
- -> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:26:52 GMT
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- -> TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) -- New Jersey's labor commissioner said M
- -> is considering a total ban on commercial bungee operations in the sta
- -> Operators who testified at a regional hearing on the amusemen
- -> defended their rides as safe. But some called for government regulati
- -> and inspection, saying they do not want the business to get a bad
- -> reputation.
- -> Labor Commissioner Raymond Bramucci, who chaired the hearing,
- -> must decide what, if any, regulations will make the rides safer, addi
- -> that a ban is still an option.
- -> Bungee operators charge around $50 to thrill-seekers who jump
- -> tower or crane, their fall broken by an elastic cord. At least 11 bun
- -> deaths have been reported worldwide.
- -> Because the sport is so new, it is relatively unregulated. In
- -> Jersey, for example, it is governed only by the regulations for
- -> amusement park rides.
- -> New Jersey did shut down all bungee jumps briefly during the
- -> after a Delaware nurse was severely injured on a jump in North Wildwo
- -> a crane toppled over during a high wind in Wildwood and a bridal coup
- -> in Atlantic City held an unauthorized double jump as part of their
- -> wedding. Most rides were allowed to reopen after inspections.
- -> The most dramatic testimony came from a doctor who treated th
- -> She broke her spinal cord when she landed on a protective airbag, aft
- -> jumping on a bungee cord that was too long for her weight.
- -> ``When you hit your head like that, forgive the word, but it
- -> splat,'' said Dr. Maurice Davidson. ``Why her brains were not all ove
- -> the ground, I don't know.''
- -> Without the airbag, his patient would have been dead, Davidso
- -> Operators were divided on whether bungee jumping is a sport,
- -> participants knowingly taking the same kind of risks they would take
- -> jumping by parachute or ballooning, or an amusement park ride. Davids
- -> who has embarked on a study of bungee injuries, said jumpers have no
- -> control over the situation once they take off.
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- As a bungee jumper,I must say that I KNOW what I am doing when I
- get onto that crane and jump.
- There was a time that skydiving was considered dangerous,and or even
- crazy,so I geuss what I an trying to say that with time this to will
- become accepted and given rules to follow by.(But how hard is it to take
- a ride up on something and jump?)
- So I geuss the best thing for us to do is hope these idots will some day
- get a life and either praticapte in these thing or leave them alone.
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